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Metal things!

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Palustris said:
    Definitely not mole traps. They are about 15 inches wide and the same deep.
    Found a few more bits yesterday while trying (and failing) to dig out yet another big Laurel stump.
    I hate wind chimes by the way.
    Wind chimes= noise pollution
    Devon.
  • Loraine3Loraine3 Posts: 579
    Are you in an older property, definitely looks like base of Victorian park fencing, if coming out at regular intervals.
  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307
    The Drive up the middle of the property was the entrance to a large house (sadly no more). We think there may well have been a fence along side it. At some point the railings were obviously taken up and dumped in the wooded bit alongside, along with lots of other rubbish.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Palustris said:

    Found a few more bits yesterday while trying (and failing) to dig out yet another big Laurel stump.

    The only way to dig a laurel out is with a large pickaxe,  I can vouch for that. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307
    Big wrecking bar, pickaxe, spade, fork and chainsaw. Still unwilling to come out.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    @Palustris, in that case, they are probably the remmants of iron railings that were removed in support of the WW2 effort - most of which apparently were never used.

    You see bits of them on top of garden walls all round Bath, including on our previous house.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
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