Jim,

The problem I have with the concealment issue is the broken condition of the
artifacts. I am aware of live cats and chickens and whole shoes being
walled-up in walls and chimneys. Welsh peasants buried horse heads or at least the
skulls under barn and house floors for protection. Bent coins, broken knives,
separated scissor parts, bottles of pins and broken pins are also documented as
wards installed in floors, window and door thresholds, and walls to protect
people inside buildings. I have even seen a bowl of food bones that might have
been fed to a spirit, as easily as someone's dog. But broken artifacts and food
debris sounds like a trash pit. Could the pit predate the age of the house?

Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.