I have no posts or history, but have many such "mysteries" around here. Last year I dug up a smooth slab of marble with jagged edges. It was about the size of a salad plate with two straight grooves cut into it. What did it come from? What happened to the rest of it, and how did it end up in my garden?

I also found, while digging the driveway bed, a straight line of pavers hidden under an inch of dirt and grass. It rested perpendicular to my driveway, in the 3 feet that led to the neighbor's yard. Whatever could that be used for? Too bad I couldn't go dig around in the neighbor's yard, on the other side of the fence, to figure out how far it went.

Hi Kim

In yesteryear it was often the case that neighbours had gates between their houses as well as at the bottom of the path.

Sometimes even no fences as a 'cupper' was always on.

I lived on a council estate as I grew up and I have to say it was like a community rather than today's isolated and security concious world.

We have a program in the UK called Time Team which excavates anomalies that are found in fields and gardens or even town centres. Often the period that is excavated is Roman or Saxon but they also answer questions like your small pathway in the process.

Regards

Phil