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Things you find buried in the garden

Pauline 7Pauline 7 Posts: 2,246
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I was chopping some off my lawn to make a raised bed and dug this up 



Any one need a new concrete gate post?
West Yorkshire
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  • Fire LilyFire Lily Posts: 296
    I found numerous bones, medieval pottery, slagstone and one bronze age axe, not really surprising due to my house being built on a site populated since the bronze age. And there are graves everywhere.  

    And yes, all the finding have been reported. 

    You should keep it, it is part of your gardens history. :)
  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546
    I dug up a rhinoceros once!
    True, it was only a little plastic one, but I kept him for ages in a pot with a jade plant 'tree', until my puppy found him and chewed him to bits :'(
    I also dug up a brown glazed Belfast sink from the bottom of the pond, now used for alpines, and part of a shallow stone sink, now sunk in the ground under one of our springs and used to water trays of plants.
    What is now the dining room was once a dairy, where they made Cheshire cheese, so both probably came from there, as did the big square cheese weight and the draining stone which are on the back terrace, which is made from the stone flags that were the floors. I did not have the pleasure (!?) of digging them up!
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I bought in a load of soil improver which turned out to be council green bin waste full of plastic rubbish. I found a tiny bottle that looked interesting and picked it up, the label read 'micro enema'. Needless to say I chucked it across the garden in a hurry. Since then I either keep finding the same one or there were several in that load as it keeps cropping up in different places. I started to suspect my neighbour was throwing them over the fence but it's always buried.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • mwtbonesmwtbones Posts: 16
    edited May 2018
    Our house was owned by a vet pre-WWII and has been a residential site for a long time so I most frequently dig up bits of pottery, clay pipes and lots of animal bones. As my own family has lived here for several generations and we've also buried our own pets there can be a bit of discussion about exactly "who" a discovery is.

    Other than that lots of slate flagstones that were once paths and bits of "inventive" weed suppression from my non-gardening elders such as a sheet of corrugated iron that was laid over a bed at some point and then got buried under 4 inches of earth and weeds.
  • Blue OnionBlue Onion Posts: 2,995
    Pauline, I'm most impressed by your spud bar you've used to pry the concrete up with.  Fancy new garden tool purchase?  ;)  Looks a lot like mine.  
    Utah, USA.
  • Pauline 7Pauline 7 Posts: 2,246
    edited May 2018
    Blue Onion. It's the top of an old washing line post that we had to remove to put a base down for the shed.  That reminds me when we dug it out we found what we think is an upside down pond liner buried close by. That's still there.  It will be excavated at a later date.
    West Yorkshire
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    When we moved here, I was digging in a border, kept hitting something hard, and found that a previous occupier had laid the border over an inspection chamber.  This seemed such a stupid thing to do that I wondered if it was done to hide something.  I got Himself to prise up the cover, but there was nothing there.  You may be thinking I was unduly suspicious, but when my parents bought their first house, they found guns under the floorboards!
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    In our Belgian garden we found old farm building walls, a well, a child's shoe and, when we first started smoothing out the former cow pasture to make lawns and beds and excavate a drainage pond, chappy's harrowing machine turned up a WW2 land mine.  Gendarmes, bomb disposal, curious onlookers...........

    Nothing like that in this new garden so far except it seems that there are, hidden under a mix of grass and fine gravel, the foundations of an old barn - low side walls, high centre, animals sheltered in the two ends and machinery and/or hay and straw in the big central section.  Typical regional construction and many are converted into lovely homes.  It's huge and is right where I want to make a seating/BBQ/relaxing area surrounded by pergolas of scented climbing plants.

    Still thinking about how to manage that without spending a small fortune. 
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    When the chain link fence was replaced with a panel fence they hit thick concrete about 6" down where the post needed to go.  We are guessing that it was the base of a shed or building at some point but it spanned both gardens.  Fortunately, one panel was about 2/3 length so by swapping a full length one and the short one they managed to get the post in eventually.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Find lots of coloured beads from the two kids who lived in the house before me. Six years in I still find untold lego. I quite like finding purple horses and orange dinosaurs peering up at me in the flower beds.
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