Things you dig up in your garden

[arpoet]

I just saw this and thought it very interesting.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/frustrated...4.html#6RnSVzn

[bussinspain]

I have dug up bones of dogs and a wild boar jaw bone. And our dogs come back with bones from "el campo" (the countryside) which are dog bones also Grim I know but some people just throw away dead dogs here.

[cariann88]

I've always wanted to dig up my mums back garden. Do a bit of Time Team on it. But she wouldn't let me. I'd like to see the old foundations of buildings and to find when digging old coins, old pots ect.

Or maybe I have watched to much Time Team to think I'd find any of that.

[Nicos]

Gosh, yes, that's not what you'd expect is it?....

It looks so sturdy, I'd be tempted to use it somehow!

Our area saw a lot of WW2 activity....whenever we play with the metal detector in our field, we get really excited when it goes 'ping'...usually to end up finding something as exciting as a piece of barbed wire

[JanieB]

Just outside my back door is a dwarf wall which is all that remains of the original kitchens of the terrace. The cottages were thatched when they were first built so the kitchens were built away from the main buildings because of the hazard of fire.

I wonder if the original floors are still there under my patio and if so are there flag stones? If so I'd like to reclaim them as they'd look fantastic in my new kitchen.

[Kirk]

He says it was 13-14 inches down and he went through clay but no mention of it all being rubble. I would have thought that just over a foot of soil, even if clay in there, would have enabled grass to grow.

I effectively stopped a small patxch of grass growing as it was too much trouble to maintain and I have a lot less then a foot of soil before I hit a layer of chalk. The chalk shows through at places and there is no soil at all.

[Alicante]

Well all I can say is snap! Although the entrance to our shelter was visible. We had an underground two room reinforced concrete bunker in the garden when we moved in. It was removed by a crane in sections as unfortunately was not useable. It was flooded where the concrete had shifted slightly letting in water. I wonder how many bomb shelters are left in gardens?

[Dorothy rouse]

We often dig up bones on the plot, apparently the area used to be where they buried horses that had been used in war( don't know which war), and also we are next to a cemetary where some of the bishops of Richester are buried (?) . I've dug up car battery, and loads of general builders rubbish!

[greenishfing]

The best thing I dug up was a gold bracelet I'd lost 2 years previously.

[Jay22]

Why is there always a load of broken crockery when you dig over your garden? I've noticed this in several gardens too.

[Mr Bones]

Why is there always a load of broken crockery when you dig over your garden? I've noticed this in several gardens too.

Probably it was an area used for tipping night soil.

[veggiechicken]

I'm envious of that air raid shelter............wine cellar, root store, icehouse, mushroom farm...........so many things I could use it for.
All I have is a tiddly little soakaway or a cesspit.

[noviceveggrower]

Up in Scotland we dug up loads of farm animal bones they were everywhere, oh and stones. Could of built a small house with the stones we dug up. In fact my dad repaired a derelict out building with them and had loads spare,
Haven't dug up anything at the allotment but at home we find loads of glass. Years ago where our garden is it was an old allotment site. Then when they built a load of new houses just below us they gave part of the allotment site as gardens to the rows of houses here. The glass comes from all the greenhouses they just smashed up. The lady who use to live next to us lived there for 15 years and was still finding bits of glass after all those years.

[Potstubsdustbins]

You wouldn't want to find what they dug up on a building site the other day a second world war......1000lb bomb. From the looks of the controlled explosion it must have been still live. I bet that made the JCB operators bum twitch when his shovel clanged on that baby.

[Zelenina]

A couple of days ago I was planting something when I accidentally dug up a young hibernating sand lizard. I wasn't sure what it was until I picked it up, because it was well camoflaged in earthy colours. But then it started moving its legs with the warmth of my hand. So I put it back and covered it up again and I hope it survives. It must be one of the babies that hatched out last summer. I was wondering how they survived the winter.

In the summer of course I sometimes dig up a clutch of their eggs. If I see a female digging a hole to lay in I mark its position so I can avoid it, but I don't always see them doing it. They love any beds that are newly dug with nice warm loose soil. But it's safer for them if they lay after I've planted stuff rather than before.