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NEW TREASURES UNEARTHED
Kenneth Lewis was astounded at these finds which he spotted recently opposite his front door.

Lewis wrote: "The farmer who owns the land across from my house removed a tree from the side of the small barn exactly opposite my front door. First off I spotted a flattened small can similar in size to a ration can, then there was a small strip of camo-parachute edging, then a few feet further than I could reach there was the bottom section of a US meat can shown still in place in the photograph, I got permission of the farmer this morning to go in the field and retrieve it, I have gently washed out the section of camo-chute and the meat can. The meat can retains the (WWI style) cast iron bracket but it has lost the cast iron handle that would have been attached and stamped with the meat can's date.

I will have lived in this house six years end of August and this stuff has sat there 69 years"
 
The barn as seen from Lewis' front door Ration can embedded in the soil (arrow added by Jumpmaster)
Small strip of camo-parachute edging

Bottom section of a US meat can, in situ

Meat can after a gentle cleansing

On 28 August 2013, Kenneth found a bottle while weeding a flower bed just ten paces from his front door.
  The neck of the small bottle has a rubber syringe bung indicating that it was intended for serum, perhaps morphine, to be dispensed on the battlefield.  It may have been discarded by a medic after treating a wounded man.

The bottom has a '"B" in a circle identifying it as the Brockway Bottle Co., Pennsylvania. The firm started in 1907 and its early bottles have the symbol in the centre as this one does (see  Brockway Glass Company  for more information)

 

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