Buried Treasure

One day after work Emmett and I were wondering about the yard in full on relax mode when something by the fence caught my eye. There was something sticking out of the ground between the ficus hedge and the fence. So I dragged (drug?) Emmett over to investigate and pulled up a 5 lb weight. . . hmm, then next to it I found a 3 lb wieght, and after pushing the sand around a bit with my toe I found a 10 pounder.

At this point it was getting dark so I supended my dig until the next day, and this time I came prepared - garden gloves and a potting shovel. After digging around for about a half hour I had found a total of 10 weights - 4 five pounders, 3 ten pounders, and 3 three pounders. . .

Why would someone bury weights in my side yard (and some of them were too deep not to have been buried on purpose)? Also in my digging I found what appears to be a rib bone (from what I hope was someone's dinner). . .