Upon digging my plot this year I have found lots of broken pottery from the Victorian Era, old marbles and plenty of broken old bottles but no treasure yet. Have any of you in the south east found anything Roman or pre historic items, I love archeology and my oh teases me regarding old broken pots says they are samian ware. There were very few Romans where I come from in the North, they must have found it depressing as they moved north to build Hadrian's wall.
You cant shove a spade in the ground anywhere in Lincolnshire without hitting a dead roman. Time Team have been here so many times they have a seat on the City Council.
Having said that, the line of the Roman road Ermine Street runs through the the site, but weve never found anything.
Ermine Street is the red line, it follows High d**e, now the main road in front of RAF Waddington and a back street in the estate called Grange Road. The allotment site is arrowed.
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Only husband offering to do some weeding. It was a brief encounter. :P
LOL Mrs Ava ;D
Thanks to a fox thinking my raised beds were great for his personal larder when the clay was rock solid in the very dry spring I have found dead rats, owl wings, large dog bones/chews & a mass of bloodied fur I think was a rabbit ::) :o x jane
Last week I found in soil a LARGE and heavy button..I think is made of glass and polished into 'gem' shape.
Some Lady in past must have had a really fancy gardening clothes..unless the button got torn of in heat of the 'other' moment :-X ;D
Do other moments go on at your site, well I never :) ;D.
I have found marbles (from the necks of old bottles), clay pipes, bits of pots etc .......my son collects them all in his lottie treasure bucket!
We also get a fair few golf balls - we're next to a driving range!
No dead Romans yet though!
Statistically speaking... any allotment site in England that was "Suburban" when established would have Roman/Saxon artefacts as they would have been dug out of town cesspits by "Night Soil" men and spread on the fields around old towns. Conversely as allotment sites have been dug and raked for years if not a century anything of interest has already been recovered. Also given the prevelance of double digging you are unlikely to go down deep enough to find anything not previously disturbed and brought to the surface... but it's still interesting to look for bits! :)