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Whats the strangest thing you have ever dug up on your plot?  ???

So far we have found a shoe, about 20 different bits of broken clay pipe, a bent rusty pair of shears, and loads of pottery.

Oh and less interesting a brick, a tree trunk and child's plastic bowl.

We haven't even dug over half yet!  :o

Mine's a smallholding rather than an allotment, but we found a lorry door, several alarm clocks, most of a toilet bowl, a spring bed base, spoons, nylon stockings...the previous owner was an ambitious composter......

False teeth, used to be my avatar picture but was deemed a bit to gross! They still sit in the gravel path and make me smile as i pass. Someone must have lost them bending down? or maybe the rest of them is down there somewehre!! there are a few bones I thought were a dog :)
x Sunloving

A communal shed was the strangest thing.  Also a vast amount of beer bottle tops as there was a bottle opener on the shed.  I thought it strange that someone would just leave them but then we had a lot of broken glass from the neighbours second unused greenhouse and have to wear gloves working that area.  Gradually removing glass and bottle tops and the shed was finally moved.

I can recall when I was a teenager, my brother and I were given the duties of digging my parents back garden, we had only moved into the place approx 1 month before. But during the dig of quite a large garden, our discoveries were quite amazing.........
The finds were; 2 half sheets of corrugated roofing, 2 scrap bikes, various amounts of bike parts, part of an old lawn mower, 200+ empty food tins, and to polish it all off three hessian sacks which were full of decaying chicken carcasses.

What a lot of strange things to find, When my daughter had the foundations being dug for her conservatory, they found a type writer .
   Lol JUNE.

So many strange things hehe

Today we found a toad, and a tea pot

A fossil sponge....it used to be seabed here a very, very,very long time ago...and may be again.

Forty-four years ago my parents moved into a newly built chalet bungalow - the last to be built on a very small prewar housing estate on the edge of the town (was village!)

My father had just bought a 2nd hand Howard rotovator and I was given the job of hanging on to it as it ploughed its way across a piece of land that had been unused for years.

We discovered the locals had, for a long time, used it as a dumping ground for garden rubbish and bikes, and shopping trolleys, and car parts and........so on.

The only really interesting bits that were unearthed by old "Howard" were a huge solid brass beer tap and a hefty King George III penny.