This weekend I've finally finished digging out the last of my veg beds in my new garden. My son took the turf up for me but I think that he had the easier of the jobs...
I dug out about a foot deep and put it on a tarp.........the soil is clay based but with a large amount of flints in it and by the looks (and feels) of it, loads of ballast. I also found remants of a bonfire about 8" down with numerous amounts of glass and iron. But I perservered and then filled it in with cardboard, paper, old turfs, the contents of my compost bins and some horsey poo that a neighbour gave me before covering with the soil again.
Still have to get a lot of the flints out but got the biggest ones out.... trying to get a fork through the soil when you come up against 8" bits of flints isn't fun