buried treasure

[Alice]

Took some piccies of the waterfalls today and will try to find time to post tomorrow.

[Alice]

Part of the water fall at the bottom of the garden created when the pond burst the dam and washed down to bed rock. It was all a bit excitement making at the time but in the end no real damage done.

[Squirrel]

That is beautiful Alice! What a place to be able to live near!

[eskymo]

In my last garden in Edinburgh I found a Fork Spade... well the metal forked bit, I guess the wooden handle must have disintegrated...I dug deeper as I thought I might find the origianl owner of the spade too, but luckily there were no bones. I thought it odd that someone would bury a large tool like that.

[shine388]

i don't know why but ever since i was little and used to dig in the soil i've always found millions and millions of marbles and when dad was digging the hills away to make room for the conservatory a few months ago we found loads of children's toys like a small dolls head (a man from the A-team i think he said? that means absolutely nothing to me :S) and bits of lego and more marbles. also the other day me and my brother were trying to pull up one of the apple trees and he dug up a small canon toy which was cute

[JennieAtkinson]

I'm digging out a new patch at the moment and keep digging up hundreds of old, large nails. Decided to do a soil test as there's so many I'm sure they must have affected the soil. All I can think is that it was a bonfire site for piles of wood which was full of nails.

[Shortie]

(a man from the A-team i think he said? that means absolutely nothing to me :S)

Shine, you've missed an era... Catch them on UKTV Gold at the weekends for some real cheesey plots, and butt-kicking action! Makes me kringe now at how I used to really love watching it as a kid!

[shine388]

hehe will do, there's nothing like good old cheesy shows! i'll let u know how i get on xxx

[Birdie Wife]

I found a gin trap well rusted, fortunately! Also an old harness for a horse, hay fork (metal bit only), various wheel rims and other things that looked like they had once belonged to a very old small holding.

[gcroft]

an idea

this could be a top tip for new alotment holders buy some roman coins off ebay bury them in your overgrown weeded alotment take photos digging them up and post of to the museum or time team they will be there with JCB's and leave a nice fine tilth for ya

[Alice]

Yes, and if your garden is what keeps you sane keep your mouth shut whatever you find or all those loonies will be right there

[ilex]

Buried..treasure

I'm not sure if this is under tresure but my next door neighbour a few years back found a victorian skeleton in their back garden scary

[Lesley Jay]

Hi ilex, welcome to the grapevine. I am not sure if I would call that treasurer either!

[Snadger]

I have to admit to owning two metal detectors (somewhere in the garage I think) These aren't the cheap toy detectors and were £600 when new. I used to do a lot of metal detecting and particularily liked the beaches where I found three gold rings! One was a mans 22carat gold sygnet ring worth quite a few bob. I have found loads of Georgian, Victorian and modern coins. Even a few Roman grots (2000yrs old)
Its an interesting hobby and it was only my lack of search sites that made me give it up. Once I get the lottie sorted I think I will give it another go. If anyone lives reasonably local and has lost anything valuable I will have a go at finding it if you like as I am always on the look out for new sites!

[nick the grief]

Can you bring it round our house Snadger as I lost the cotter pin out of a rotavator about 5 years ago