Topic: interesting finds on allotments

[queenbee]

Have any of you lotties found anything interesting when digging your plot. Apart from a mass of old motor bike parts, the shell of a push chair C1950, 40 odd marbles, an old penny & halfpenny and a tin box buried about a foot down, I got so excited but when OH dug it up it contained a load of rusty nuts and bolts. Come on lotties I would be really interested in what you have dug up. I do not really expect a roman floor or an iron age axe but you must have some artifacts of interest.   

[macmac]

We haven't dug up anything but we have "found"the most wonderful people some of whom we call friends  :)

[queenbee]

Macmac,

That goes without saying.

[jennym]

Have found loads of pieces of clay pipe (tobacco pipes), the site is in the middle of a field.

[Jeannine]

I once found some bones that looked like vertebra and I got pretty uptight, I told the police, they were identified as cow spine bones. Felt a bit creepy at the time though.

XX Jeannine

[Manouche]

small china pig and clay pipe bowls,old medicine bottles with glass stoppers,brown glass bovril bottle, five stones (the game) and a small china dolls head. Also tons of willow pattern bits, allotments here are on the site of a Victorian tip.

[betula]

oh you lucky thing.........I have only ever found bits of china :)

[pigeonseed]

I always find lots of bits of pottery and the occasional clay pipe. Also rusty nails. I did find some Edwardian iron coat hooks in the back garden.

In my last allotment, I found large lumps of concrete, floor tiles, water pipe and so on. Also lots of burnt brick, covered in slag turned up - later on, I found out a row of houses nearby were hit by a bomb in WWII. So they must have dumped the rubble on the allotments, at least temporarily.

[:(]

A gold brooch.

[Digeroo]

Very dull here.  The only things I found on my new piece of allotment were left behind by the pigs.  Black gold?

[dtw]

Lots and lots of nails and old rusty spades and forks.

As it's near Heathrow, I should imagine there are bits of aeroplanes in there somewhere.

[pigeonseed]

gold brooch

That must have been quite nice to find! What did you do with it?

[Old Central]

An intact green glass ginger beer bottle from Batey's of London (I am in SW London) with stopper. Plus various bits of china plates all probably from allotment users.

Add in some much older parts of clay pipes one dated to 17th Century when it was agricultural.

OC

[PurpleHeather]

Golf Balls.

Every plot holder finds one every so often.

There is a park runs parallel to our allotments and each of us verge the motorway.

We can only suppose some one practices their golf swings on the Leisure park.

[mpdjulie]

This was not actually dug up but when my husband managed to break through into our new plot - covered in bramble - the dilapidated shed had just inside about a 6 inch thick pile of porno mags from the 70's!!!

[Kea]

Fossil sponges...used to be under the sea here long ago.....other people have found other sea fossils I heard the other day.

[pigeonseed]

porno mags from the 70's!!!

wow this sounds like quite an archaeological find!

Fossil sponges...used to be under the sea here long ago.....other people have found other sea fossils I heard the other day.

But probably this is the most amazing find anyone's mentioned so far (though Jeannine's scary skeleton was quite a memorable one too)

I would be so excited to find fossils in my allotment. Where are you? (oh hang on, I should have looked to see if your avatar says it, can't see when writing reply)

[Kea]

Yes i was excited....I thought I'd found 'shot' from the civil war but the fossil is much older than that...i had it identified at our local museum.