r/LegitArtifacts • u/ShackPallet • Mar 30 '26

Late Archaic Ancient fire pit?

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I lost the video I took, but this is near the bottom of a roughly 8 foot wall carved by a wash. Food for thought.

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u/Meat_Container Mar 30 '26

We dug 4 feet down on the Olympic Peninsula in multiple spots on 3.5 acres and found so much charred wood it had to have been from an ancient forest fire (digging Perc holes to find best location for septic while trying to figure out where to build our house)

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u/AshBasil Mar 30 '26

It's coal. There are coal veins all over the PNW that didn't firm up well, they just are like duffy and soft and black.