Digging up some strange stuff

[KittyColdNose]

Once I dug up something I've never seen before - or since. A straight carrot

I had some strange shapes last year, including one looking a bit embarressed!

[veggiechicken]

Could be a prizewinner in the Virtual Show!! http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ing_67329.html

[mothhawk]

I'm considering building a second home with all the brick ends and lumps of granite I've dug out of my garden...

[KittyColdNose]

alldigging, that's some haul you have there! I like the little frog

Wow zaz! After the initial panic (and then getting my breath back) at finding a skeleton I would be so excited.

I would be tempted to make bits of jewellery out of any bits and bobs like pot or beads etc. Before we moved away from the coast I regularly came home with pockets full of beach glass to make into stuff. I'm beginning to feel a bit let down at the lack of things (other than veggies) to dig up in our garden

[KittyColdNose]

Will there be another show this year VC? Pleeeeese say yes!

[veggiechicken]

You'll have to ask the Mods - but they are very obliging if you ask nicely

[Peppermint]

Our house and plot is over 150 years old and one of the first owner's was a cobbler. We are always digging up metal boot heels / segs.

The garden is full of the local stone and this lunchtime Mr Peppermint dug up a slab that was about four foot long and 3 foot wide. As we are upwind of the Ring of Brodgar and the Ness of Brodgar we do worry that we'll come across something archaeological. Not found anything yet though

We have found:

Loads of old pottery and ceramic pieces (more than you'd expect to find in a garden)
Complete little medicine bottles
Marbles
Loads of rusty metalwork
An artillery cap badge
An old earring
We are building a pile of hardcore with all the rocks and stones we are digging out as we lay down the plots.

It's a fascinating look at lives gone by. I think some of the early owners (a century or so back) used burn their rubbish on the land.

[KittyColdNose]

Peppermint, I loved Orkney when I took my hubby took as a birthday treat many moons ago. I hope the slab Mr P dug up wasn't man made... If you catch my meaning!

[rustylady]

I've dug up loads of old (tiny) bottles and stoppers (also glass). And lots and lots of china (why is it always blue and white?)

[Two_Sheds]

blue & white: Lowestoft porcelain

Lowestoft porcelain -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia

I learned that in middle school, when we had a field trip to study the houses opposite Ivy Cottage, lovely Victorian architecture


Tangent

[Peppermint]

Peppermint, I loved Orkney when I took my hubby took as a birthday treat many moons ago. I hope the slab Mr P dug up wasn't man made... If you catch my meaning!

We did debate whether or not there might be a body underneath

[rustylady]

blue & white: Lowestoft porcelain

Lowestoft porcelain -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia

I learned that in middle school, when we had a field trip to study the houses opposite Ivy Cottage, lovely Victorian architecture


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But it's not porcelain, it's just chunky blue and white bits of pot

[veggiechicken]

Most Victorian pottery was blue and white. - I'm sure there's a reason

[KittyColdNose]

I bet it was a heart in mouth moment Peppermint. I would have been hopping from foot to foot and annoying Mr KCN (aka out in the cold) to dig faster.

Are they pretty pieces you can decorate a pot with Rustylady?

I just had a flashback... My dad had a big deep trench he used to dump rubbish in, when it was full he set it on fire! Left all the bits of tin/glass etc in there afterwards. I really feel for whoever has that house now.

[Aberdeenplotter]

a good going bonfire will melt glass so any shards should be rounded off leaving it relatively safe.