Have you ever discovered hidden treasure...?

[johnty greentoes]

I've just posted a message in Vegging Out - What I did today which led me into describing things I'd found in my soil today - caterpillars, clay tobacco pipe etc...

It made me wonder what unusual items you may have found in your digging. Anything archaeological...or...homicidal!?

A friend of mine was demolishing a 1930s built church in Hull a few years ago and found a builder's time capsule under the altar. When he opened it he found a page from the Hull Daily Mail which had the announcement of his father's birth on it!

I wonder what you may have found.

[rustylady]

Lots and lots of blue and white broken china bits. Doesn't matter where I've gardened - it's always blue and white. Also found some very interesting old small glass bottles in my present garden. No buried crock of gold though.

[Nicos]

Have a look at this thread!!
http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...uried+treasure

[Alice]

Hello Johnty, I see Nicos has directed you to a thread we ran before. Should be interesting for you. I used to find the clay pipes you mention, they were all over the place. The area where I live was a Roman camp site and lots of stuff has been found around here. I've told my husband if we ever find anything of the sort it's staying in the ground as I don't need any archeologists in here digging up the place.

[Snadger]

Hello Johnty, I see Nicos has directed you to a thread we ran before. Should be interesting for you. I used to find the clay pipes you mention, they were all over the place. The area where I live was a Roman camp site and lots of stuff has been found around here. I've told my husband if we ever find anything of the sort it's staying in the ground as I don't need any archeologists in here digging up the place.

So Hadrians wall wasn't the be all and end all of the Roman Empire then!

[Snadger]

Found a buried dead fox today, or the previous occupants dog!

[sewer rat]

Snadger
The Romans built a wall further north than Hadrians - The Antonine Wall. Not much to look at now as it was primarily built of wood and turf - not sure exactly where it went to on the east of the country but was just to the North of Glasgow on the west coast. I know there was a fort sited at a place called Kirkintilloch, very close to where my family live. In fact there is a pub (or was a pub) there called The Antonine Bar - it's where I had my 18th birthday celebrations many many mooons ago !

[nick the grief]

I used to go up to Kirky Rat as one of the companies I worked for had a depot there.

[sewer rat]

Haven't spent much time there recently- it's dying a death since they started re-energising Glasgow City Centre, and building huge retail parks everywhere but Kirky itself. Learnt to swim in Kirky baths, got my first kicking in the park, lost my ...........think I'll shut up now

[Snadger]

Snadger
The Romans built a wall further north than Hadrians - The Antonine Wall. Not much to look at now as it was primarily built of wood and turf - not sure exactly where it went to on the east of the country but was just to the North of Glasgow on the west coast. I know there was a fort sited at a place called Kirkintilloch, very close to where my family live. In fact there is a pub (or was a pub) there called The Antonine Bar - it's where I had my 18th birthday celebrations many many mooons ago !

I remember that from school history believe it or not, I just thought I'd wind Alice up!
Just had a vision of Roman legionaire smoking a clay pipe!

[johnty greentoes]

Nicos

thanks for the link.

[Alice]

You can't wind Alice up Snadger. Alice knows where the Antonine wall is - in the park on the opposite side of the road from me. And there are remains of a Roman fort, a bridge and a graveyard. And everything in the place is called Roman or Antonine something or other. So no, Hadrian's wall was not the be all and end all. But the Antonine wall was the limit of Roman occupation. The troops who ventured north of there never returned.

[NOG]

A friend at work found a hand granade in his garden..and had to get the army to come and take it away.

He said when he phoned 999 they wanted him to go back to check the pin was still in. so he as I have waited 5 mins for you to answer you can take it that it is....

[johnty greentoes]

In a school not too far from me, on the Holderness coast near Hornsea, a primary school teacher asked children to bring in shells for a seaside study they were to embark upon.
Next day a boy came into class with a carrier bag proudly announcing that he had brought his shell. When the teacher opened the bag there was a WWII leftover mortar round, live and kicking.
The school was evacuated and bomb disposal called!

[Snadger]

You can't wind Alice up Snadger. Alice knows where the Antonine wall is - in the park on the opposite side of the road from me. And there are remains of a Roman fort, a bridge and a graveyard. And everything in the place is called Roman or Antonine something or other. So no, Hadrian's wall was not the be all and end all. But the Antonine wall was the limit of Roman occupation. The troops who ventured north of there never returned.

So there may still be a few Legionaires decendants sitting in a cave somewhere in the highlands....smoking clay pipes....not knowing that the rest of the lads went home 2000 years ago!!!