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    What interesting items have you dug up?

    Yesterday whilst de-turfing part of our top paddock to extend our veg patch, I dug up a 1916 English penny! Where we live has always been a farm and is on the outskirts of a small village. The nearest large town, which is about 5 miles away, is Loudeac and the only reference that we have found as to British Forces in this area during WW1 was a German Military Hospital in Loudeac. It is amazing to wonder how this English penny found it's way into the middle of a field in farm land in Central Brittany.

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    That is interesting TK. I'm afraid the only things I dig up in my garden are old dinky toys that belonged to my boys (both now in their 30s) and, oddly, teaspoons!
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    • #3
      I found a round missile from a Dinky Klingon D-7 from Star Trek The Motion Picture that I must have fired and lost in the garden other than that enough clay to put Wedgwoods out of business.

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      • #4
        On the 50th anniversary of D-Day I dug up a 1945 multi-sided theepenny bit at my old allotment. Seemed significant at the time.
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        • #5
          a potato...........
          dont scoff..................
          it was the previous tenants..........
          it weighed about 1.5kg.......
          fed us any way hee hee
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          • #6
            My mum lives on a converted farm house (you wouldn't think it had ever been a farm from the look of it), one of her patches must have been used for decades as their own personal landfill because she would regularly dig up old bottles (she has several of those ones with the marble stopper in them) probably 100 odd bottles, pots and jars of varying shapes and sizes made out of old hand-blow glass or pottery.
            Amongst this she's also found:
            - half of a pair of very old spectacles
            - An empty box of woodbine cigarettes
            - horse shoes
            - tiles
            and even an old bullet (without cartridge) identified as being a spitfire bullet!

            My garden is the same, but I only seem to find old square nails and pieces of metal. I think where the lawn used to be was where they had a bonfire.
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            • #7
              Our allotment site was an old dumping ground for the old street sweepers who used to collect the rubbish load it into carts. I have found loads of bits of clay pipes and an old screw in stopper for possibly a beer bottle from the local brewery Greene King.
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              • #8
                In 1963 we bought a freehold pub in Cambridgeshire. The adjoining land was being developed for housing and a new owner was preparing a patio when he dug up a 13th century mint gold coin. After valuation it was kept in the Cambridge museum but the lucky boy that found it copped £3,000. At the time we were planning to tarmac a large area for car parking and as our land was adjoining we had a good look first. We also had a clause put in our deeds that if further finds were made we were to be contacted.
                We are still waiting.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Brengirl
                  ...We also had a clause put in our deeds that if further finds were made we were to be contacted.
                  We are still waiting.
                  What for?
                  To see a world in a grain of sand
                  And a heaven in a wild flower

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by smallblueplanet View Post
                    What for?
                    Well it seemed a good idea at the time and that was what we were advised to do lol. The find was reported as being a portion of a hoard hidden by highwaymen in the old barn that had been demolished.

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                    • #11
                      I imagine a clause like that would be more likely to cause the disappearance of any 'treasure' rather than its reporting?
                      To see a world in a grain of sand
                      And a heaven in a wild flower

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                      • #12
                        Very true but after all we have lost nothing. What you never had you never miss.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Brengirl View Post
                          Very true but after all we have lost nothing. What you never had you never miss.
                          I was thinking more that 'no-one' got anything...
                          To see a world in a grain of sand
                          And a heaven in a wild flower

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                          • #14
                            When i was first married i lived in the village of Wall (letocetum) roman village near Lichfield i was digging a grave for the landlords dog in the pub garden and i dug up a roman coin a bronze one a bit dodgy condition but still have it .
                            I dug a fair few graves in the churchyard but never found another one ...jacob
                            What lies behind us,And what lies before us,Are tiny matters compared to what lies Within us ...
                            Ralph Waide Emmerson

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                            • #15
                              42 empty cans of vintage Strongbow Cider - a previous tenant obviously had a penchant for it - no wonder the blooming fence is wonky!
                              'May your cattle never wander and your crops never fail'

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