Whats the strangest thing youve ever dug up ?

Was just woundering whats the strangest thing youve ever dug up in your garden ? heres mine the front end of an anti aircraft shell !

 

Nothing as good as that, old bottles mainly and clay pipes.

 

Heres a few... a bit dusty!

 

Take your pick from about 30 tons of stuff. How about an old pushchair, still upright (sans enfant)? or 5 cobbler's lasts (alll broken!). Oldest thing is something we identified from a Time Team program. It is the pivot stone from an Iron age round house doorway.

 

I dug up a copper tray in a field. About 15" diameter. Didn't know it was copper until I managed to clean some of grime off it but apart from a slight bend to the outer rim it has polished up a treat. I haven't a clue how old it is and whether in fact I should have cleaned it or left it as it was?

 

Funny to hear what you all found. Mine wasn't that spectacular - was the tooth of a cow, although the time when cows grazed around this area must have been a really looooong time ago :-)

 

we were working on a community garden in st Lawrence and we dug up some old glass bottles from newport, a clay bottle of some sort and loads of cattle bones..

 

Nothing interesting at all ... lots of bricks and a milk bottle.

Ant.

 

A coin from 1901 and an old nurses badge.

When my parents were having a new rockery, we dug into lawn that had been there for at least the past 50 years, yet funnily enough we discovered a plastic sweet container from the 1970's. Must have been moved along from the exposed soil by the earthworms.

Incidentally, on the Fortean Times website, one poster uprooted an old oak tree at his parents house and they discovered old, intact mince pies amongst the roots. It sounds absolutely bizarre but someone came up with the theory that maybe the soil was lime-based and preserved the pies for many years. The mind still boggles.

 

I keep finding someones Marbles

 

We found an old sandstone patio when removing the gravel from our garden!

Great thread - some really interesting finds!

 

I've found a huge ice cream tub with a skeleton of what looked like a rabbit or guinea pig, lots of cotton wool, plastic food bowl and water bottle.

 

I, too, find this interesting. I'm not into archeology sp? or whatever, but find it amazing what you find when you dig.

My ex had loads of old bottles he collected when out & about. I haven't found anything interesting only plastic bits, old crockery & loads of glass pieces that keep appearing no matter how many times I dig!

cheers

 

a time capsule from the kids who obviously lived here before us - they suggest if you want to know what life was like in 2006 you should look at a tv from then, because it will show you!!! Bless. I reburied it but deeper!!

 

Bottles,coins,scale weights, Bullets,Iron age axe.......many many items...I collect anything 'old'.
My next project is to try and locate the Air Raid shelter at the bottom of my garden where,I'm told, a Harp was left inside!!:confused:...