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Title: Todays hmmmmm harvest?
Post by: Palustris on July 13, 2004, 20:58:20
(http://img56.photobucket.com/albums/v172/Berghill/July/smallglass.jpg)
This is the unbroken part of todays harvest. The white jars are Marmalade pots and most of the bottles are Camp Coffee.
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Post by: Roy Bham UK on July 13, 2004, 21:46:24
Where unearthed did you find those ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: ina on July 13, 2004, 22:24:32
How old do you think those things are?
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Post by: Mrs Ava on July 13, 2004, 23:00:33
What was your property before it was your property Eric?  You do seem to dig up lots of unusual things.  Makes for interesting digging though, more so than digging up nettle weeds - my digging tomorrow!  :(
Title: Re:Todays hmmmmm harvest?
Post by: Palustris on July 14, 2004, 18:14:01
There was no such thing as Rubbish collection in rural areas until about 10 years ago so they either burnt it or buried it. These are the top layer of a pit which goes down at least another metre, possibly more. We have found a few of these pits. Age? could be anywhere from Roman to 1980's. The site was the same shape on the earliest map we can find from early 1600's. All it says on that is "yards and gardens".
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Post by: busy_lizzie on July 14, 2004, 19:06:45
Interesting harvest Eric!  The most we have ever found has been the bones of an animal (wondered if someone has buried their dog on our plot), and also a few clay pipes.  :) busy_lizzie  
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Post by: tim on July 14, 2004, 19:16:59
Worth money to collectors. But where's the plastic bag full of ,,,, what was it?? = Tim
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Post by: Palustris on July 14, 2004, 19:52:24
As far as is humanly possible, we never ever look at the contents of the unearthed plastic bags. They are gently put inside another bag and binned. Believe me, you do not want to be around when one of those bags bursts. Nothing has rotted properly, because of the lack of oxgen etc. It is about as pleasant as rodding out the blocked sewerage pipes!
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Post by: aquilegia on July 15, 2004, 10:42:21
cor - that's impressive. Amazing they survived intact.

Mr Aqui once dug up a bottle, with rusty lid on. Amazingly it was whole, but i daren't open it for fear of what it might contain!
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Post by: Doris_Pinks on July 15, 2004, 15:41:13
Thats where my Genie went!
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Post by: Palustris on July 15, 2004, 18:19:54
Todays bottle found before it started to rain bears the inscription Aqua Artificielles. So you tell me Artificial Water.