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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 3243625, member: 10461"]<font face="Georgia"><font size="5">Very belatedly resuming the story from my last narrative post:</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="3">(OK, as the Street View photos in the post before this one indicate, there wasn't much of a retaining wall- just a bit of a slope. I had remembered it incorrectly.)</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #0000ff">Blue's find was an old lead coat weight similar to the one pictured below, but darker grey in color. It had a numeral on it. 6, maybe. This would have referred to the size, I suppose. These weights were sewn inside clothing and draperies, as I understand it.</span></font></font></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]849664[/ATTACH]</p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #0000ff">Soon, towards the back of the lot, I had dug another greyish, round target myself. </span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #0000ff">This is Target #1 in the photo below.</span></font></font></p><p><font size="5"><font face="Georgia"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255)"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font size="5"><font face="Georgia"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255)">It too was greyish in color and had the appearance of a quarter-sized coin...</span></font></font></p><p><font size="5"><font face="Georgia"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255)"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font size="5"><font face="Georgia"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255)">[ATTACH=full]849668[/ATTACH] </span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #0000ff"></span></font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 3243625, member: 10461"][FONT=Georgia][SIZE=5]Very belatedly resuming the story from my last narrative post: [/SIZE] [SIZE=3](OK, as the Street View photos in the post before this one indicate, there wasn't much of a retaining wall- just a bit of a slope. I had remembered it incorrectly.)[/SIZE] [SIZE=5] [COLOR=#0000ff]Blue's find was an old lead coat weight similar to the one pictured below, but darker grey in color. It had a numeral on it. 6, maybe. This would have referred to the size, I suppose. These weights were sewn inside clothing and draperies, as I understand it.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [ATTACH=full]849664[/ATTACH] [FONT=Georgia][SIZE=5][COLOR=#0000ff] Soon, towards the back of the lot, I had dug another greyish, round target myself. This is Target #1 in the photo below.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=5][FONT=Georgia][COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 255)] It too was greyish in color and had the appearance of a quarter-sized coin... [ATTACH=full]849668[/ATTACH] [/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Georgia][SIZE=5][COLOR=#0000ff] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/QUOTE]
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