clay pipes, clay pipes and more clay pipes. loads of poison and medicine bottles, bones, (including horse and cow skulls)oyster shells .Our house is 16th Century, so basically for 500 years everything considered rubbish was just thrown on a pile in the garden, and that pile has managed to spread itself around the entire plot.
Oh and that blue and white patterned pottery. I dont think Ive ever dug in a garden anywhere without finding that, where did it all come from?
Years ago they didn’t have refuse collections or council tips, every thing went in a pit in the garden they just covered one and dug another, I think everyone used blue and white crockery years ago. also in our garden there’s 3 dogs, at least 10 cats and a huge goose.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I dug this from a previous garden. I have no idea what it is. I like to think it's some sort of fossilised seed pod. there are rows of the tiniest dots along it but way too small to photograph.
In this garden I have found 2 slate hearths, lots of long ships nails, medicine bottles and one of those hollowed out stone pots for threshing corn. And lots of stones, big and small. Fortunately nothing more interesting even if I do live next door to an old church!
'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
Bones. Lots and lots of bones everywhere in the garden.
A bit of local knowledge from someone I know tells me that a long time ago this area was a pig farm and the load of ribs that were found under the garage conversion confirmed that!
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Oh and that blue and white patterned pottery. I dont think Ive ever dug in a garden anywhere without finding that, where did it all come from?
also in our garden there’s 3 dogs, at least 10 cats and a huge goose.
Not I, obviously.
Edit: You all beat me to it.. I didn't read the next page before posting. Duh.. you'd think I'd have learned by now.
As for the school milk,I still can't stomach warm milk,which at school they stood near the pot bellied stove in winter! Yuk!
Not I, obviously.
Thanks for that link Blue Onion, almost identical.