Keep up your digging and commentary! We are all enablers of both here!

I would keep digging. Something fabulous can be there.

The soil must have been placed over the brick for a reason. I'd want to know what the reason was then figure out if it's still viable. I suspect it had something to do with drainage.

I was going to put in a brick walkway at an old house I used to live in. Well, apparently great minds think alike. I started digging out the soil and grass, and hit brick. It cleaned up beautifully, and still looked great when I moved eight years later. I would keep going.

I think we need more info and you need to keep digging to see what you have there . IMO if you have been parking cars there the brick has shown you can do so now . I do not think piling dirt ontop of brick could really help with drainage but who knows at this stage . Maybe less caffiene before answering any questions so we can understand what you are saying.

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Stop if you find body parts.........................

No one has told me to stop digging yet...

I've been using a hammer drill, pick axe, digging bar, and a myriad of shovels just to cover all the muscle groups.

@cooper8828 That's awesome.

I’m going to take a guess and say that one owner probably didn’t like the unevenness of the brick. Maybe they had a toddler or an elderly family member.

I think they’re great!

I find old brick driveways and pathways to be quite beautiful. To me it enhances the home. Can’t wait to see more.

You're just like Indiana Jones! How does your body like your new career in archaeology?? I assume that you have a few sore muscles after all the work you've done.

I hope that the old brick driveway is stable/doesn't have drainage issues - because I also like old brick driveways!

While sharing Polar seltzer waters with friends in the hideaway attic, recounting the find as a remnant of a Roman aqueduct will garner more "ooohhhs and aaaahhhs" as they peer down through the attic window.

Any chance you came across a Barnstable brick? Here on Cape Cod, if you are lucky enough to have one, it always is included into a project. One brick is now valued at $50.00.

https://www.capeandislands.org/in-this-place/2018-02-12/melting-glaciers-brought-brick-making-to-west-barnstable

It's nicely sloped for drainage down the middle, too. (I've seen many brick and cobblestone streets here in Philadelphia!) You may not love shoveling a driveway like that, if you live someplace with weather. Otherwise, I think it would be fabulous! After all the jackhammering and chaos, you may want to seal the bricks before committing to them...

No snow here.

No name stamped bricks.

What is this attic talk?

I have no advice or experience with such a thing, but I think it's amazing! I love old brick and have used it in screen porches on the floors and in kitchens on the walls. It adds so much character to a home.

Great to find you here again Farley! I haven’t seen your work since the kitchen/bath/secret stair projects. I have nothing of value advice wise to contribute on unearthing and restoring old brick driveways but wow, what an ambitious project! No surprise at all that you’ve taken this one on & I’ll be following your progress with great interest and thoroughly enjoying your commentary as you go!

Love old brick, I laid a tiered pathway and birdbath circle myself and later the patio of my cottage. They have new technology grout now to make that job easier

I actually like brick driveways! You've got a find!

I too love old brick! i started laying a path and large patio but discovered i had no talent so hired a wonderful brick layer and his team from Guatamala did an amazing job. it was in our 1890 Bungalow back garden. we sold in 2017 . it was still perfect .

I have a friend down the street, that cut back 8' deep of overgrown oleander at the back of their property. Behind they found an abandoned swimming pool.

Turns out they accidentally found a landlocked parcel, surrounded by neighborhood block walls with no other yard or street access, except for their fallen oleanders. After finally tracking down the old owners of that land, they cut an amazing deal based off ingress difficulties then redid the pool and have plenty of room for a large guest house.

It's no old brick driveway but still.

That's an amazing story, Farley.

"Brick by brick, my fellow citizens, brick by brick".

@Kendrah and @ptreckel, Thanks. I hardly have the time, what with all the free retro fridges still coming in, mixed with the Seinfeldian hand cramps I've been suffering, signing Houzz blog checks.

The original brick discovery really was right up my ally; I usually have to create things that look old and found. My driveway currently looks like I'm building a structure specifically to protect some kind of archeological dig.

Much like the people who stumble open-toed sandal'dly about jokingly saying, "They need a vacation from this vacation," I seem to be oppositely pausing a lot of other work just to work inventing more work for myself. It's about time to put the nativity scene up out front and I keep thinking about mounting tools in Jesus and his friend's hands so it looks like they're helping me build. Imagine Mary with a framing nail gun and go from there.

Hahaha! love the Seinfeld reference!