Have you ever discovered hidden treasure...?

[Nicos]

So- I have to ask..
which came first - the toga or the kilt??

(NO-LJ - it's not a rude joke!!! )

[Two_Sheds]

Buried treasure? No. But I did feel around in my pocket yesterday for a clean hanky, thought I felt a soggy one, so felt around a little more before investigating the pocket - it wasn't a soggy hanky, it was a partially dismembered caterpillar - dismembered by my fingernails rooting around. Gross. God only knows how it managed to get into my pocket. Must be a jumping variety

[Alice]

No I don't think they'll be sitting in caves puffing pipes Snadger. I think they'll be married to beautiful highland girls, making gorgeous babies and the only thing they'll be smoking is venison and salmon.

[bubblewrap]

No I don't think they'll be sitting in caves puffing pipes Snadger. I think they'll be married to beautiful highland girls, making gorgeous babies and the only thing they'll be smoking is venison and salmon.

What size Rizlas do you use for smoking venison and salmon.

[beefy]

What size Rizlas do you use for smoking venison and salmon.

Depends on the size but you will need a bigger rizla for the venison and a smaller one for the salmon - common sense really

[Palustris]

Interesting thread before it got hijacked. I suppose one needs to define 'buried treasure' before answering. We have found a 'cobbled' road leading to a disappeared Elizabethan house, a beautiful carved solid stone pig trough, the foundations of houses built just after 1804 (new penny in the foundations).
We have also disposed of over 30 tons of rubbish including hundreds of accumulator type batteries.
I could go on, 'cos that is only the tip of the ice berg!

[smallblueplanet]

Well as the OH is a prehistorian by trade I suppose I shouldn't be surprised when a piece of worked flint was discovered.

It's a flint blade (possibly early neolithic) - rather battered though, but you can see the 'bulb of percussion' and the striking platform quite clearly on the first piccy.

[madderbat]

Interesting thread before it got hijacked. I suppose one needs to define 'buried treasure' before answering. We have found a 'cobbled' road leading to a disappeared Elizabethan house, a beautiful carved solid stone pig trough, the foundations of houses built just after 1804 (new penny in the foundations).
We have also disposed of over 30 tons of rubbish including hundreds of accumulator type batteries.
I could go on, 'cos that is only the tip of the ice berg!

Some people have all the luck! We've only found 1904 pennies and a few bits of clay pipe so far.

[Palustris]

You would not say that if it was you who had tocollect up all the scrap metal, broken glass, bits of car, brick rubble and worst of all rusty barbed wire and take them to the tip!
We had to put the veg patches in the only part of the garden where we found no batteries as we were concerned about soil contamination.
Even now after 12 years, you still need gloves when delving into the soil, as there are bits of glass all over the place.
Just to give a small example, in one area of the garen I cleared out a rubbish mound and found a push chair, upright (sans enfant). We made a lily pond in that area. It is about a metre deep and even at that depth I was still digging through rubbish! Nothing of any value though!
Oddest things we have found were 5, cobblers lasts, sadly all broken!

[Debs]

Whilst digging around in the garden last weekend (getting things ready for my greenhouse- delivery due today HURRAY!) we unearthed a Helmet. Now very interested to find out when it dates from. Have had a look on the net and are pretty certain it is not from either WW1 or WW11 as it is much taller than the "Tommy" or "Brodie" style, so I was wondering if there are any grapes out there with any knowledge of this sort. Will try to post a photo.

Before this find the most unusual buried thing I found was a Morris Minor Engine! (In a different garden I hasten to add) What on earth possesses people to bury such things!?

[Birdie Wife]

So- I have to ask..
which came first - the toga or the kilt??

(NO-LJ - it's not a rude joke!!! )

Trick question!

The toga came first because the kilt was invented in the 1800s by an Englishman, after the English had attempted to outlaw the wearing of the plaid after the Culloden rebellion in 1746. The Scottish plaid was worn a long time before this. Although the earliest written records of the plaid go back only as far as 1594 it's likely to have been worn for a long time before then. History is the books written by the men wearing the right trousers !

Sorry, back to the thread now...

[Nicos]

Debs- do you think it's from Civil War times???? - Nice find!
BW - interesting...thanks for that- you learn something new on here every day!!

[SueA]

Debs, that's a fascinating find. Whereabouts do you live, have there been any battles near there? It does look a lot older than 20th century, have you ever been to the Leeds Armouries, they have lots of armour, helmets & weapons on display & you might find something similar?
Only ever found bits of clay pipes discarded by the men who dug the nearby canal in our garden & odd bits of pottry & glass marbles. If anyone digs it after us they'll probably find the budgie in it's little coffin!

[zebedee]

In answer to the question - "what have you discovered on your plot?" I got my mother in law from the allotment! Well, I must have done, because several people have asked me "where did you dig her up?" There is a rumour that she has a piratical background. That's because of her sunken chest!

I can't say which came first, the kilt or the toga, despite being of Scottish blood, but I can reply to the question "what's worn under the kilt?" - nothing is worn under the kilt, it's all in very good condition!!!

[Lesley Jay]

Zebedee!! You little devil !!!