Topic: Dotties little lottie!

[Beer_Belly]

There's not much archeology on my plot but when I was digging my bean trench I did find half a brick and 3 pieces of a clay pipe.

[ciderself]

Its nice to think of those men working the same land all those years ago puffing away at their clay pipes isnt it beer belly.
Although p'raps my clay pipe smokers worked in a carpet warehouse?

[Doris_Pinks]

My old bit I am sure was part of an ancient bottle dump, keep looking for coins, but the closest I have come to metal so far is a rusty fanta can! ;D
In my "new" bit I think they were plastic producers! Why oh why do people dump non biodegradiable stuff on their plots!! (so that people like me have to dig em up and cart their rubbish away whilst fuming I guess >:( ) From my little plot I can see the communial compost heap, and yup there are plastic bags etc on there, even tho a huge sign says no dumping. Geesh Humans can be such a dissapointment!

[ciderself]

Thankfully we were provided with a couple of skips. :-*
We managed to fill one of them in an afternoon - weed infested carpet. A new pest to go on the defra site surely??
It fights back as well - hubby had quite a tussle to get it to lie down. Would have it in my rugby team any day ;D

[Tenuse]

When I dug the first patch of my lottie over, I found...

BONES!!!

I was terrified, until the previous plot holder informed me that he had once spread some manure in which some unfortunate turkeys had been baked to death.

Oh well the more organic matter the merrier....

Ten x

[busy_lizzie]

Hi, We have found loads of bones while digging in our allotment too.  None human fortunately.  :o They look like animals. We were wondering about sheep because of the jaw bones, but I have been conjuring up this story of a little old man who used to take his dogs up to his lottie while he dug it, and when they died decided he would bury them there where they had spent many happy hours lying in the sunshine while he worked his land!  AAh! :'(  Probably nothing of the sort, but you can't help wondering about the history of the your allotment and  the people who dug the same soil as you.  :)
busy_lizzie

[Doris_Pinks]

Bones.......eauch! Well this morning, I found various plastic bottles, plastic holly with berries still attatched, part of a car, (still looking for the rest of it as I need a new one!) Plastic bags in various states of disrepair, 1/2 a large sign saying onda, and the best till last, various wreath holders, just hope the body isn't there too! :o (I am next to the cemetary.lovely and quiet!)

[ciderself]

Haveyou noticed how so many allotments are near to cemeteries. Are the planning peops trying to tell us something I wonder?

[ina]

Very fertile land I'm sure near the grave yard.

Many pieces of white clay pipe stems and some intact pipe bowls. Chards of kitchen stuff and tiles with designs on them, some small bones and a dented reservoir of an oil lamp (rubbed it but nothing happened).

[Doris_Pinks]

Well fertilised :o.OUCH! I quite like it actually, definately peaceful, and me Dad's up there on the hill, keeping an eye on me!! ;D
I guess too that the land is probably not as valuable as not many people would like to overlook a graveyard?

[Palustris]

The bit we are clearing was the dump for a first World War Camp in the fields behind us, so  there are some very strange things. Worst find today? Two old fashioned animal traps, the leg breaker kind for foxes, fortunately both too rusty to use. Now found over a dozen of them in the land.
Take care with the broken glass.
Bones are easy to explain. Up to quite recently many people did not have refuse collections so they buried their non-burnable refuse. Much of it rots away, but bones take a long time.
Our biggest hate is the Plastic Bin Sack. Previous occupants buried stuff in them. The contents do not rot as they have no access to water, air and fungus etc, so out they all come, the bag always splits, almost the same as they went in. Sometimes I find my species unbearably disgusting.

[Beer_Belly]

I'm opposite a graveyard as well no bones found as yet but I did find a horses tooth  ???

[minerva]

Directly below my plot there is an area that we are not alowed to cultivate as it is a Roman villa! apparently,  but i have found nothing remotely interesting on my plot apart from tarmac as it used to be a tennis court. in our old house we tried to terrace the garden and found a supermarket trolly buried in the raised lawn! only bones are the dogs

[Doris_Pinks]

minerva, a Roman Villa how exciting!! You never know a couple of coins may turn up one day ;D get the metal detectors out! :D Dottie P

[Palustris]

These are the most unpleasant finds.

Traps for foxes or badgers. Hard to tell but the jaws at the top close on the foot and usually break it, holding the animal there until trapper comes to finish it off. Not nice, even for foxes.

[Doris_Pinks]

What horrid things, glad they have rusted away.......surely they are not in use in this day and age are they?? DP

[Beer_Belly]

No - gin traps were banned a long while ago and by the look of the rust on those they've been buried for years. They'd look nice on a wall though (as a reminder as to how more civilised we've become)

[Doris_Pinks]

Well this morning I have managed, with the aid of a friend! To remove 3......yes 3 compost bag loads of broken china!!! :o Suddenly came across it.
Now it is making me wonder wether a previous tennant owned a greek restaurant, or wether he /she hated the other halfs taste in dinnerware, and secretly took it up the lottie bit by bit to smash!  ;D  DP