Interesting Unearthings

[Muddypause]

Isn't it nice to have a house with history - all those interesting things you can find in the garden. I've still got a tiny plastic doll's shoe knocking about in the veggie patch. This is the third year I've found it while digging, and thought I really ought to get rid of that.

So, what's the most interesting thing anybody's dug up? Trumpet mouthpiece for me (I dug loads more, but couldn't find the rest of it).

[shiney]

I found an ancient train toy in my garden. My grandad dug up a brass victorian watering can. I still have it on my dresser.

[nick]

i often find the old clay marbles and occasionally old glass bottles

[Hepsibah]

I've been in my house for three years now and when we were digging our (ahem) 'wildlife pond (more a wildlife puddle) in a dark corner of our garden where nothing wants to grow, we found bags and bags of clothes that looked like they were from the seventies, kipper ties, flared trousers and wedge heeled shoes included.

[Millymollymandy]

Hope you are holding them for when they come back into fashion! Well those flares with nice embroidered flowers are fashionable now aren't they? (urk)

[Andy Hamilton]

Cat poo is the only thing that I have dug up in my 1ft X 1ft garden.

Keep finding bits of old crocks on the allotment, for a moment I think is this roman then I realise that it was probally from the fella who had the allotment before me.

[albert onglebod]

I found a toy rubber dinosaur and 7 tennis balls over the last month .I think the fox brings them in from peoples gardens to play with.
There is meant to a filled in air-raid shelter under the lawn,I suppose that could have some interesting stuff in it.

[Hepsibah]

Cat poo.
The clothes were deffo not my style at all and the mould on them made them icky. It was interesting though...It was the purple t-shirt with the wombles decal on it that made me laugh cos I used to have one just like it.
I don't know how you resist the thought of a bomb shelter under the garden. It would make a great root cellar.

[albert onglebod]

I don't know how you resist the thought of a bomb shelter under the garden. It would make a great root cellar.

yeah it does sound good doesnt it.Our neighbour said it is all filled in with rubbish.Thing is,it was probably smashed up a bit first.There is one a few streets away that weve been down into and it has really narrow steps going down and is damp down there too ,so probably it would be a waste of energy digging it out.

[Millymollymandy]

There was one in my friend's garden when we were kids. It was damp, dark, dismal, spooky and horrid! Not to mention tiny! It does make you feel glad you were not alive during the war and the air raids though.

[wulf]

Digging it out fully would be a mammoth task. A few years ago I helped a friend who had one just outside the extended kitchen on a house he'd just bought. The problem was that it had been built to resist bombs and falling rubble, with heavily reinforced concrete. Pinging away at it with sledgehammers took a long time!

Wulf

[Goodlife1970]

I think the previous occupants of our cottage used the garden as a rubbish tip as we regularly dig up old bottles,bits of rusty metal and millions of nails! Have found a china spaniel and marbles too,and the usual blue and white pottery (why is it always blue and white??) The best thing we found,although it wasnt actually dug up in the garden,was a tiny,perfect clay pipe hidden in the ceiling cupboard in the kitchen.

[albert onglebod]

I managed to find my weed hook yesterday when I was earthing up the potatoes.It must have been buried in the mud and weeds for about 12 years. I always wondered what had happened to it.
We have found some of the kids toys down there too. One was a knitted dog with its bone. We thought it was some really ancient 'wartime' childs toy as it was grey and solid,then I washed it in the rain water bucket and recognised it from my sons toddler days.

[Tigerhair]

About 40 massive pieces of beautiful york stone which had obviously been a pathway up the orchard but had been silted over with each flood. We were walking down the garden armed with gardening forks and using them as walking sticks when suddenly one went "clang" on something hard about 6 inches down.... DH didn't much enjoy digging them up but they are now a beautiful informal patio...

[Millymollymandy]

Now that was a good find!!! Lucky you, Tigz!