I went to the kitchen and stepped in something wet. I looked down and to my horror discovered that the cat had brought in a small rabbit and disemboweled it on the kitchen floor. I shrieked like a little girl.

I took the remains to the backyard and dug a hole to bury the mess. A few inches down I uncovered a shift lever. Perhaps a Suntour. I tried to clean it but it snapped in two. From the degree of corrosion it may date to the late Etruscan/early Roman era. I was tempted to dig further, because who knows, maybe someone buried a De Rosa?