[poconopundit]

Hey SunkenCiv,

Fascinating story. To think an oaken tool could last that long! Amazing.

In the attached story, they mentioned that the spade was excavated from the "Moors of Arne", near London.

As a youngster, I read Sherlock Holmes's Hound of the Baskervilles, and more recently saw the scary murder mystery movie in black and white. Upon further surfing I discovered the setting of the novel was the Moors of Dartmoor on the southwestern tip of England.

So I leave the link to the Dartmoor as a great place for intrepid FReepers to roam at night when the moon is high and the hounds are loose on the moor!

[SunkenCiv]

I got interested in Sherlock Holmes as a kid, a kid's version of his final confrontation with Moriarty (I guess that was authentic), then a few years went by, I visited an actual bookstore for the first time (Walden, in a mall that has since been torn down) and it was probably nearing Christmas, so there were reissues with nice leather bindings. Hound is remarkable, with its venn diagram incursion into the horror genre. That guy could write.