Contents of the Capsule

On June 14th 2021, I buried a time capsule in amongst ten tonnes of hardcore at the end of my garden which would later become the concrete foundations of a log cabin.

Concrete has a lifespan of approximately 100 years so sooner or later, the time capsule will be recovered by whoever owns the property at the time they come to remove it. A plaque inside the log cabin marks the location of the capsule.

The contents of this capsule were hastily compiled over a weekend in June. This post serves as a reminder of the date it was buried and what is inside it. This list was compiled several months after the burial of the time capsule so should be regarded as a very best guess, rather than a definitive list.

A handwritten note signed and dated by myself covers the lot. It ends:

_We hope you have archived the technology to play, understand and make sense of these things, however many years into the future you unearth this capsule.

WITH HOPE,
ADAM STONER_

The capsule contains:

• The most recent copy of the local village newsletter (June 2021)
• An A4 print-out of the top global news headlines on the BBC website that day
• An A4 print-out of the weather from the local weather station at the time of burial plus historical highs and lows as well as seasonal averages
• A COVID-19 NHS information leaflet that came with mail-out antigen tests and blue surgical mask
• The final page of This is Not A Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook
• Vivienne Westwood Climate Revolution scarf
• The 1975’s Notes on a Conditional Form on cassette, an expansive album that demonstrates multiple music genres in a short run-time and also has tracks in keeping with the inadvertent theme of this capsule: climate action
• The Sound Approach, a collection of birdsong from around the world, on USB
• A used Monocle x Laperruque cardholder
• Silver napkin ring given engraved with my initials
• My press pass from Cheltenham Races (circa 2013-2016) bearing the name of my student radio station, Tone Radio
• A Love button from a Coldplay gig

All of that, plus a USB C solid state 1TB hard drive containing:

• Videos including speeches from Greta Thunberg and Sir David Attenborough
• All episodes of The Week Junior Show to-date
• Episodes of Mysteries of Science, a podcast from The Week Junior’s Science+Nature magazine
• The lockdown podcast I produced with the UK’s children’s radio station, Fun Kids, called Stuck at Home
• Episodes of my own podcast and articles from the archive of this website
• Photos.