He Thought It Was Just Garden Junk — Until An Expert Says This

The first few feet of dirt were nothing special—roots, rocks, old bottles, and glass shards. Owen found a half-buried garden gnome missing an arm. He laughed, wiped the sweat from his brow, and kept going. About a foot down, his shovel hit something hard. Not stone. Not metal either. It gave a little, like dense wood or packed clay.