Football Clay Pipe

We started making a pond in our back yard today and found this clay pipe while we were digging the hole. I looked it up online and it seems it was a typical design in the 19th century, so it may have been dropped by someone in the fields which were here before the house was built or even by someone building the house in 1899. I love that it's been lying there in the earth all these years until being dug up by us on this day.