Topic: what is the wierdest thing you have found on the plot?

[GrannieAnnie]

I dont know if it is particularly wierd but I did dig up a huge pile of ciggarette butts.  There were hundreds and hundreds of them all in one place like someone had been saving them up.  I can tell you that they do not seem to decompose at all...

Maybe they were saved to soak for nicotinic acid which was used as an insecticide, maybe still is though cannot remember what it deters.

[Digeroo]

There's a rather odd individual in a hat that lurks round my plot.  Occassionally does a bit of digging etc.

[Columbus]

Hi all, Hi Peter  :)

[quoteWhat are the flints like, Columbus? Any chance of pics? Are they worked on one side or on both sides?][/quote]

Some are scrapers with a bulb of percussion and some are tiny pointy bits.

I`m not an expert at all but on an episode of time team Phil ..? was raving about flints and I though well I`ve got some like that in my shed.

I`ve seen a map online that showed worked flints found all along the river valley that our site is part of.

Col

[Psi (Pronounced 'Si'!)]

rocking horse poo
 ;D

[cornykev]

Has it got shavings in it.   ;D ;D ;D

[Digeroo]

Some of the worked flints I find are quite amazing.  They are not very spectaular to look at.  But I find if I turn them round in my hand suddenly you find that they fit and that all sorts of shapes have been made in them to make them a comfortable fit in the palm with grips for the fingers.

[GrannieAnnie]

Some of the worked flints I find are quite amazing.  They are not very spectaular to look at.  But I find if I turn them round in my hand suddenly you find that they fit and that all sorts of shapes have been made in them to make them a comfortable fit in the palm with grips for the fingers.

Digeroo, can you post some pix? I'd like to compare them with some flints a Danish fellow gave me years ago found in Denmark. I never figured out that the slight curve was for a better ergonomic fit!

[Digeroo]

I'll try my best but they kind of look like stones.  Except we are quite a long way from any large flints naturally.  It is only when you hold them that you realise they are much more cleverly worked.  They are cetainly much more basic than a arrow head or a spear head.

[electric landlady]

When I first got mine I found myself digging up miles and miles of nylon string all over the place. It's now all in a huge ball in the shed and I use it for marking  out rows and things like that.

 I can only imagine that the previous plotholder had either built a huge string construction to keep the pigeons off, or had some sort of bizarre cat's cradle fetish  ??? ???  :) still it comes in handy.

[angle shades]

 :) clay pipes here too / shades x

[grawrc]

I had all the previous plot holder's tools  - or rather - the heads of them. He had burnt them all before leaving.

[jonny211]

I found a kind of scythe thing, it had a heavy thick curved blade which was less of a crescent than a scythe and mounted on a pole about 3 feet long. Excellent for clearing thick grass but I got a few 'he's a nutter' looks as I was swinging it about.

Also a chickens leg.

[tonybloke]

that tool is known as a 'slasher' and commomly used in hedge-laying!!

[jonny211]

Well it certainly lives up to it's name!