The Brief
- A San Francisco couple doing yard work at their two-story Russian Hill neighborhood uncovered a 150-pound stone sculpture buried nearly 2 feet underground in their backyard.
- The limestone sculpture measures about 2 feet wide and 9 inches thick.
- Its origins remain unknown, and that uncertainty has quickly become part of the intrigue.
SAN FRANCISCO – A San Francisco couple doing yard work at their two-story Russian Hill neighborhood home recently uncovered what may be a piece of the city’s artistic past: a 150-pound stone sculpture buried nearly 2 feet underground in their Russian Hill backyard.
Discovery while grading the yard
Dig deeper:
Greg Gatwood said he first mistook the object for construction debris while grading the yard.
“I was doing a little grading and I came across what I thought was a piece of concrete, rectangular, and I thought, I’ll just pop it out and throw it to the side,” Gatwood said.…