What have you found whilst digging???

[Parsleythelion]

In my introduction I mentioned that I had finally attacked my jungle of a garden after living in my house for a while......I cleared all the weeds and tidied everything up. I have since been preparing half of it for veg etc and have had to dig over the whole site (two plots of about 15' X 5').

Whilst digging at the weekend I uncovered a rug (a synthetic material as it hadn't rotted at all!), numerous complete house bricks, a saucepan lid, metal hinges, locks etc. On chatting to my neighbour (who has been in his house for a while) he mentioned that the previous owner had buried a shed!!!! I mean....who buries a shed!!! I then discovered the metal lined shed roof buried 2 feet down over a large area which took a good hour to dig up....

Thank goodness for Radox and Deep Heat......

[WillyNelson]

Bones, lots of big bones!

[janeyo]

half burnt wardrobes and lots of hinges and nails and screws in the back garden
whole bricks and large bits of roofing felt in the bit at the side

[lindyloo]

i found an old ring- only brass, plaited. no value, but i wore it for years, ( after coating the underside with nail varnish) as i liked the fact that it seemed a homemade token of someones love for another.

[Jardiniere]

second world war (vichy government) franc - which we thought was quite interesting...loads and loads of old bottles (the embankment seems to have been used as a rubbish dump at some stage.

[Lovage]

Lots of pieces of old clay pipes including occassional bowls and glazed mouth pieces

Bits of old blue and white pottery, a tiny perfume bottle and a lovely old glass stopper.

I usually bury them all again so someone else will have the pleasure of finding them in the future

[reetnproper]

2 tonne engine hoist - can't be moved and is now painted black and used for climbing plants in summer and to hang bird feeders in winter;

Unimog engine block - painted silver and used as planter for lobelias but now under pile of stuff awaiting the rag and bone man;

Metal wheel hub - now home to an ivy, forget-me-knots and some voles;

Metal bed frame;

Old LWB Land Rover - now been rehomed (with V5 [in the attic] and permission of previous owner) to loving new owner;

Saddle racks - 2 of them;

The most enormous chain (link size that is) I've ever seen with a massive hook (1 ft high now used as gate stop) on the end - had to move it with my old Pinin because it was so very heavy ;

And down the old victorian well we found (from nearest to top of well to bottom):

1950's pram wheels - intact with white tyres;
1930'sish parrafin lamp - slightly damaged;
Various, intact bottles; and, at the very bottom of the well
Complete, stainless steel bucket very much like the galvanised ones you can get from B&Q. Filled with sludge, bottles and another bucket which hadn't faired so well .

Reet
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[SlugLobber]

2 tonne engine hoist - can't be moved and is now painted black and used for climbing plants in summer and to hang bird feeders in winter;

Unimog engine block - painted silver and used as planter for lobelias but now under pile of stuff awaiting the rag and bone man;

Metal wheel hub - now home to an ivy, forget-me-knots and some voles;

Metal bed frame;

Old LWB Land Rover - now been rehomed (with V5 [in the attic] and permission of previous owner) to loving new owner;

Saddle racks - 2 of them;

The most enormous chain (link size that is) I've ever seen with a massive hook (1 ft high now used as gate stop) on the end - had to move it with my old Pinin because it was so very heavy ;

And down the old victorian well we found (from nearest to top of well to bottom):

1950's pram wheels - intact with white tyres;
1930'sish parrafin lamp - slightly damaged;
Various, intact bottles; and, at the very bottom of the well
Complete, stainless steel bucket very much like the galvanised ones you can get from B&Q. Filled with sludge, bottles and another bucket which hadn't faired so well .

Reet
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You sure you're in North Lincs? Sounds like my OH's yard!

All I've dug up is a donkey shoe. Now, ask me what I've found in the horse's field and I can tell you all sorts of lovely things. I could clothe a whole family (well, if I'd kept everything...).

[lindyloo]

please tell us what you have dug up in the horses feild!!

[reetnproper]

You sure you're in North Lincs? Sounds like my Now, ask me what I've found in the horse's field and I can tell you all sorts of lovely things. I could clothe a whole family (well, if I'd kept everything...).

Do tell, please!

Reet
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[chris]

A whole eletric outdoor light system, about 2 foot down. Some of it is still there :/

[roadkill]

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