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Finding lots of blue and White pottery when I dig....

TootlesTootles Posts: 1,469

hello

been digging over a new bed and keep finding bits of blue and white pottery. 

Is this quite common? My house is quite new and built on a former agricultural field. it seems to be all over the place.

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  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307

    Certainly common enough in our garden. Up until the late 1960's there was no bin collection here so everything was buried in the garden. I'd bet that despite it being agricultural land there was a farm or house nearby and the contents of the midden were spread across the land.

  • MobowMobow Posts: 92

    Ours is a fairly old house and we often dig up bits of pottery and glass and when we went to dig out a pond, we found bits of an old iron bedstead! As Berghill says before there were bin collections, rubbish was either burnt or buried.

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    You need to make a mosaic with it, something for the gardenimage



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • TootlesTootles Posts: 1,469

    Ah thanks. Whoever it belonged to was definabley into those colours as that's all we find.....oh, other than the bricks, rubble and plastic bags of cable that we have found!

    The Viking Way walk runs by our house so we get a fair few detectorists about. 

  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307

    Well, keep working on it, we reckon we have removed over 40 tons of rubbish like that from this acre of land. And still the moles and badgers turn up more.

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