Read the other day about someone finding a war medal in garden. Has anyone lost or found anything valuable or interesting in their garden or allotment?

My husband lost his ring today at the plot!

when on honeymoon,nearly 41 years ago,we were sitting on the sand,i gently shook my hand as my wedding ring was a bit loose,i just wanted to test it out,bear in mind i only had it on a couple of days,and was getting used to wearing a ring,when all of a sudden it flew of ,you can imagine what i felt like,well to cut the story short,we left then returned later,and i found it myself amongst the sand,we could not beleive it,i cryed with relief,is hard to believe even today,someone must have been watching over us.

I found a man's gold ring last week while digging. yesterday I found a skull (bird or rat, not sure) and today I found a gun (metal, we think it was a toy, but aren't toy guns usually plastic?)

Oh, and joy - my neighbour Carol found the camera battery that I lost on Tuesday (It slipped out of my hands into grass - I spent 2 hrs searching, inc.pulling out and digging out all the grass. OH had a good look too) I just mentioned it to Carol, who said "what's it look like?" I said yay big and white, how could you miss it in green grass ... and she said "what like that?" and picked it up, two foot away from where I dropped it.
I think the fairies moved it for a laugh.

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Not my find but I thought this spud-signet was rather cool!



More details:

Billingham gardener shows off an unusual discovery (TS23 - Billingham)

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Stand up now diggers all

I lost my grandma's eternity ring down the loo as I was flushing it - don't know how it happened, but I was not a happy bunny...I've just about gotten over it 20+ years later.

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Yet Nature is made better by no mean
But Nature makes that mean; so over that art
Which you say adds to Nature, is an art
That Nature makes.

About forty odd years ago i got married and moved into a house that used to be a transport cafe many years before i was diggind in the the garden one day and a female head popped over the fence saying if you find a engagment ring it is mine i lost it when throwing some scraps to the fowl 30 years ago .
About 6 months later i found it and did not say anything to the lady but later on when i saw her husband i showed it to him and said is this your good ladys he said it was and i gave it to him and he had it cleaned at the jewelers and we gave it back to the lady one night at a party the look on her face priceless .
so if you lose any thing keep looking jacob

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All I ever seem to find on the lottie is broken glass, and blue and white broken pottery. Why is it always blue and white?

Same here RustyLady I've often wondered about the blue & white thing too - maybe the blue paint is the most durable colour & the others wear off/fade? Or it was the most popular at the time our allotments were established?

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“Tell me one last thing,” said Harry. “Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?”
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”

Today we're going to the plot on a rescue mission! Wish us luck... if not found today, hopefully it will apear around an odd shaped potato!

My dad used to collect leaf mould from the woods near our house when I was growing up. One day he was cleaning his fork and found a ring stuck on one of the tines - 18ct gold and 3 diamonds (one missing) probably an engagement ring.

All I have ever found was an old but quite pretty silver spoon in someone else's garden. I gave it to the garden's owner and she looked at it like I'd handed her dog mess. Bet it went in the bin.

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Lowestoft used to have a Porcelain Factory: whole pieces still fetch 100's of pounds at auction http://www.ceramic-experience.co.uk/...fdFlag=Factory

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Hope you find it!

Thanks Gemlady, we spent a few hours baking in the sun, result? No ring and quite a suntan!

Anyone knows where to rent a metal detector??

I've found lots of bits of clay pipes, like the ones they used to smoke many, many years ago. Wonder what the ground was used for in the past and the actual dates. My lottie is on the Penwortham site, immediately behind the Bridge Inn, Penwortham, Preston. Has anyone any idea the latest dates clay pipes were smoked? Bernie aka DDL

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My grandad (sadly many years departed and was a very keen gardener) was weeding their front patch when he found a ruby ring. He was very excited obviously and thought maybe a couple had had a tiff and the lady had flung it off..... when he showed Nanna she had to own up that it was hers and she had lost it 5 years previously! She had spent many years trying to find a vheap replic in the shops so he wold be none the wiser but hadn't found one.

I can't rememeber if it was her engagement ring or her ruby wedding ring but poor grandad was very cross she hadn't shared the fact that she'd lost it! Mind you he hadn't noticed... so clearly he was more fixated on his veggies than on what Nanna was wearing!

janeyo

A farthing,3 halfpennies & a penny........................Iretire next week!

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There are 3 available to buy from argos.

Argos - www.argos.co.uk

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