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  • WonkyWombleWonkyWomble Posts: 4,541
    This is a really interesting thread,  thank you.
    I've found lots of worked flint but it's raining so I'll wait to take a picture. 

    I've always been a big time team fan so keep half an eye out for interesting things when I'm digging!
    For others that enjoy archeology here's a link for Timeteam back by popular demand in a crowd funding basis. 
    https://www.patreon.com/TimeTeamOfficial
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I think it would be very smart with jeans @SherwoodArrow- providing you can find a suitable bit of 'stuff' to thread it onto  ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    In this garden all I've dug up - apart from two marbles and 7 cents - is a lot of plastic fertiliser sacks, old wire netting & burnt dog food cans.  Lots of fossils though.  :)  
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • I have dug up several small glass bottles, loads of blue and white china pieces(the plan was to collect enough to make a mosaic table top?!), several pieces of clay pipe stems, an 1800's beer bottle made in a local brewery and a shard of terracotta with a dark layer through the centre which might, could possibly, perhaps be a piece from an iron age pot. Yet to be identified. I also have found a horse shoe. Did it belong to one of th epit ponies working in the local clay pits? Who knows.
    My garden is on the foothills of clay pit spoil heaps so anything is possible. A local metal detecting group came and worked the fields on each side of my garden but only found a few buttons. In days gone by they used old clothes as mulch/manure on fields because the clothes were cotton, linen and wool. The buttons were not removed hence buttons being a common find.
  • zugeniezugenie Posts: 831
    Thought today I may have finally found something interesting when the wire appeared (looked like a handle) but just a pile of rusty broken metal. Mostly the garden finds are glass, glass, and oh look more glass!



  • In a previous garden, there was an elongated bump in the lawn which  I decided to level,  did everything to the book to preserve the grass. 
    Cut an X and carefully peeled back the turf to reveal a complete bicycle, unusable with rust sadly!
    In my current garden I have been collecting blue and white pottery shards to possibly cover a flower pot, some pieces of clay pipes, several very small glass bottles, a horse shoe and some metal heels from work boots.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I went to the local museum last week and they've got an exhibit of a bronze age axe head that someone found in their back garden here in the town. They're only a couple of streets away from me but sadly there's no chance of finding artifacts here. 
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • ManderMander Posts: 349
    I'm an archaeologist by trade but of course that means I never find anything interesting in my own garden! But even in a 1950s build I have found bits of Victorian clay pipe. That stuff is everywhere. 
  • didywdidyw Posts: 3,573
    When the builder excavated the footings for our new kitchen, all he came across was an old Shipmans paste bottle.  We dug up an old metal garden recliner and I dug up bit of clay pipe last year.  
    Gardening in East Suffolk on dry sandy soil.
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