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Quote from: two sheds on June 20, 2011, 17:31:31
couple of bedframes and a set of iron railings about six ft long! tons of glass too..

every allotment comes with its own glass mine, apparantly...................

Soak it in C*ke, works wonders - we used to soak all of our brass window catches and they came up luverly!
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Thanks for that.  It is much shinier now, but also shows that is a very worn coin, but the edges are still well defined and the writing is easily readible.  Now for our dull brass drawer knobs. 

Quote from: saddad on June 20, 2011, 07:25:35
There are lots of Morrison shelters on our site.. mostly above ground serving as sheds or compost bins. They were bolted together in sections so are easily disassembled...  :)

I must have been having a blonde day...
Anderson Shelters are the ones made of curved corrougated iron in sections...
Morrison shelters were welded metal cages to put in cellars.. for houses with no gardens..  :-[

Quote from: saddad on June 21, 2011, 09:31:45

Quote from: saddad on June 20, 2011, 07:25:35
There are lots of Morrison shelters on our site.. mostly above ground serving as sheds or compost bins. They were bolted together in sections so are easily disassembled...  :)

I must have been having a blonde day...
Anderson Shelters are the ones made of curved corrougated iron in sections...
Morrison shelters were welded metal cages to put in cellars.. for houses with no gardens..  :-[

correct. there were many anderson shelters in lincolnshire, in fact every now and then they come up for sale in auctions or on ebay..............much in deamnd as pig shelters

We find lots of fossils including a sharks tooth of about 83 millions year old (as identified by our museum), other interesting finds include a 1910 penny, parts of clay pipes, hand made nails
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on one particular plot we found burnt glass, hinges and other bits of metal - the plot holder here many years ago used his plot - it adjoined his garden - to burn items from his business as a window fitter!  There's still so many clumps of burnt glass and small fragments of glass here that its used now as a wild flower area and to grow hazel (for pea sticks) as its too contaminated for regular cultivation.

Things dug up in my plot

1 complete cast iron bed in 3 different sections (that was fun  :'(!)
2 numerous bones dead animals (the plots were once part of a farm)
3 corrugating sheeting
4 couple of metres barbed wire
5 so much glass
6 clay

Even after 3 years I still come across the odd piece of china , glass and tin

Trouble with glass is that self-seeds every where.. ::)
I'm still to see what glass seeds look like, but I swear that is what they do. I've been cultivating my plot for years and everytime I start working on the soil I keep my glass bucket next to me and keep picking..or after heavy rain..you find all those that you've missed glistening on surface.. >:(

lincsyokel2 is right.
our allotment is in peterborough, we found a saxon burial and coptic bowl three years ago when we  took over out plot.

Coptic? All the way from Egypt?

Quote from: Robert_Brenchley on June 28, 2011, 12:25:50
Coptic? All the way from Egypt?

Why not. The romans used to bring them here (because the roman empire extended all the way to Egypt), and then dumped them when they buggered off back to Rome in in 200 AD. Especially in Lincolnshire. There prolly more roman rubbish pits in Lincolnshire than the rest of Europe.

It's interesting that they'd bother to ship pottery all that distance when they could have made something locally. Their trading networks were pretty sophisticated, but that surprised me.

Quote from: Robert_Brenchley on June 28, 2011, 18:17:44
It's interesting that they'd bother to ship pottery all that distance when they could have made something locally. Their trading networks were pretty sophisticated, but that surprised me.

ah no its not that simple, there pottery and pottery. Its to do with technology - it might be simple, but in those days, knowing how to make one of these was the equivalent of being a engineer on the Space Shuttle

3 trillion yards of indestructible nylon string, tangled up everywhere - I'm still digging it out after 5 years. Why on earth would anyone need this much string on an allotment?

I live in hope of a Coptic pot though.

In our back garden, after the landscaping was completed we found a complete dinosaur.
Yes you guessed it a complete plastic dinosaur which came as a shock due to our kids not having any of these to play with.

i dug up an old glass bottle from the aberdeen mineral water co. complete with glass marble stopper

I knew of a builder who used to have a plastic skull which he would 'find', (he half buried it), when digging the footings for jobs.  He was amazed at the number of people who would choose not to involve the police once they realized that it would hold up their extentions for several weeks.   :o

What would you do in that situation?

HAVE HIM LOCKED UP!!

On my Allotment  I recently found a large bit of china that looks like willow pattern,as it is a brand new Allotment on what was a field that had horses in I wonder how it got there.Love these snippets from the past telling you that the land has another story to tell. :)