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.
My collection of clay pipe bits is constantly growing. My favourite is one with 'Miner's pipe' stamped on the stem. According to old newspaper records it was sold locally around 1875. Like you say though, once you start looking they're everywhere.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
A desk chair, an 6 foot bus stop pole with concrete on one end, 6 foot of 8 inch pipe, car battery, various cans and bags plus rotted geotextile. All buried entirely underground.
Sufficed to say that patch of garden is not used for edible plants.
I have an old farm and in one area there was another farm that was removed in the 50's we've found coins from 1870 and up inculding a 1911 silver one. a good 2-300kg of old scrap iron, everything from nails (most comon) to hinges, horseshoes, odd pieces up to 2ft long, the end of a plough, several chains, every time we dig we find at least one piece of old iron.
We've also found old injection bottles one of them still has a white residue in it, old garden secateurs, lots of sea urchin fossils and one flint scraper.
at my old house which was also an old farm we kept digging up bags of domestic rubbish from the 90's, and oddly bags of old rain clothes.
I found a beer bottle, W.Hicks, St Austell. Truro, Nankivell & Co., which I believe dates from the 1800's, worth about £12.00 on line. The other bottles are tiny but not ridged. I am guessing they held some kind of noxious contents, I am not sure when ridges bottles were introduced. I found one shard which I wondered might be fairly ancient. It has a layer thin layer of dark material sandwiched between two layers of terracotta pottery.
I found one shard which I wondered might be fairly ancient. It has a layer thin layer of dark material sandwiched between two layers of terracotta pottery.
Apparently this is a sign that the kiln wasn't fired hot enough or long enough. It's a good sign of medieval era pottery.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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I like that fish one. 😀
Failure is always an option.
calibrated for 'teaspoonfuls', and with a bit of stopper still in.
The other bottles are tiny but not ridged. I am guessing they held some kind of noxious contents, I am not sure when ridges bottles were introduced.
I found one shard which I wondered might be fairly ancient. It has a layer thin layer of dark material sandwiched between two layers of terracotta pottery.
I once found one of these. The teensiest lemonade bottle.