After a rainy week or so, we found that a well-traveled path through our woods was offering up many objects such as these. This is a spot we’ve tried to pick all the glass and metal out of before, but rains bring more to the surface. Erosion is real.
Like many rural places, our home’s underground aspect includes human leavings along with microbial life, roots, rocks, and the tunnels of moles, who must occasionally encounter a sharp edge in the darkness, then turn aside.