'Found on plot'

[Headfry]

What is the oldest or strangest thing you have ever found on your plot?

[Shortie]

Hmm let's see...

A Moris Minor bumper (that'd be amoungst the matress, 3x electric mowers and a crumpled bike frame

Our 'allotment dragon' which is a little dragon figurine cracking out of an egg. To add character, a centipede (or millipeded?) had burrowed into it and made a sharp exit when we brushed it off

[jackie j]

To date shrews, toad. newt, also football goal post including the concrete bit and a grave marker !!!

[pukka.tukka]

Hi

Two metal hooks and a horseshoe.

[crichmond]

Oldest was the old greenhouse litteraly falling to bits when I got it, gone now.
Strangest thing on my allotment was a succesful crop the first year i had it.

Cheers Chris

[bluemoon]

Several ingot moulds (from the days when the molten steel was hand poured) Loads of bull-bars from 4x4s, a caravan axle and, further up the plot, the crumpled aluminium body of said caravan, countless car exhausts, two trailer axles, two stainless steel toilets, a set of park gates and a bus shelter. All of it hidden under twelve foot high brambles. Either the previous tenant was a scrap metal dealer or he was hoping to create some sort of modernist abstract sculpture park.

[Nicos]

Here- have a look at this thread too!

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...asure_449.html

[Headfry]

Thats great thanks Nicos....
I find loads of shell fossils they are really lovely, treasure for me!

[flowerofshona]

On one plot we found over 200 hen eggs burried in a huge mound !! (and shoes and metal toy cars LOL )
The fox was fed eggs by someone on the plot and had decide our plot was ideal to hide them on !!!!!!!!! had to be VERY carful when we dug them up as you can imagine how bad they smelt Phewwwwwwwwwww !

[yoanbob]

we found old eggs too but not that many!

an old cast iron oven/stove door, and the anderson bomb shelter are proberbly the oldest but the oddest is either the collection of supermarket shopping trollys or the dead terapin.

[NOG]

I found an Anderson Shelter and now use it as a compost bin....but there us something under my plot that I don't want to find.

Alledgedly there is an unexploded V2.....or V1 depending on the story teller..I go for the V1 as unless you were standing by the plot you would not see the V2 landing. The Bomb disposal people dug down to 12ft couldn't find it so as it was allotments said they would come back when they got time....that was in 1945...and still we wait.

[crichmond]

Alledgedly there is an unexploded V2.....or V1 depending on the story teller..I go for the V1 as unless you were standing by the plot you would not see the V2 landing. The Bomb disposal people dug down to 12ft couldn't find it so as it was allotments said they would come back when they got time....that was in 1945...and still we wait.

Dont forget to foot in those new fruit bushes very firmly.. really the harder you stamp the better..

[NOG]

When I was told I was turning the "soil" over with a pick axe cos it was so compacted.

I thought it was a wind up, but its ment to be true.

[allotmentlady]

My pal Gordon...........ROFL, he is 70 something years always on about death, has many a good story to make u laugh but he is strange and he will agree lol.; we have a specially built raised bed we nicknamed the coffin!

[Two_Sheds]

On my new plot, I have unearthed :

• a rusty ironing board
• a complete set of billiard balls
• a 6 foot curtain track complete with hooks
• a bag of CDs and books
• a china plate
• a set of cutlery

(the neighbour decided it was easier to chuck her rubbish over the fence instead of putting it in her wheelie bin.

On my old plot, I dug up a duck's skeleton. The person who inherits my plot will dig up a cockatiel skeleton (RIP Birdie 1994-2005)