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burried treasure?
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Permalink Reply by Chris @ Tidy Garden Company on -
I too have dreampt of the day i would find buried treasure.
Once i though i had, turned out to be a dead parrot in a box........
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Permalink Reply by Paul @ Ashgate Garden Care on -
Mainly house bricks and scaffolding when the builders could not be bothered to us a skip.
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PRO MemberPermalink Reply by andy@ Doughty Garden Maintenance on -
found a silver sixpence once, be damned if i know where i put it though! .....
found a fiver under a hedge a few months ago, been there for ages, stained and brown but still spent it. ....
found quite a few human bones in molehills in the churchyard that i mow, They're still waiting to be reburied.....
you would think with all the digging we do in our trade that the odds of us finding something valuable are pretty high,
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PRO MemberPermalink Reply by andy@ Doughty Garden Maintenance on -
oooh! bet that stank! grim!!
Paul @ PPCH Services said:
Found a dead pet rabbit stewing in a plastic bag.
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PRO MemberPermalink Reply by Nick @ NM Garden Services Ltd on -
Found a few rotting cats (a bit grim) and once found a time capsule once which was a bit more exciting! I recall it had a Blue Peter badge inside and some old pennies.
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PRO MemberPermalink Reply by Rowly Hill on -
I've dug up all sorts of ageing coins but none of them are going to see me happily and comfortably through my retirement.
I did find a 13 ft well just in front of a porch which was covered with a veneer of tin sheet and some bars of steel - always wondered how no one ever fell into that one.
Perhaps it just doesn't happen to folk like us - I remember reading an article recently about two of Earl Spencers workers testing a metal detector on his estate - they found a painting buried in the grounds worth £50, 0000.
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PRO MemberPermalink Reply by David Cox on -
A large 1inch diameter coin which was dated 1789,
And while digging a border in Tockwith (site of the Battle of Marston Moor) we found 2 small coins which apparently date from the period, and a plain iron button, again matching syles used around the time. The house was 300 years old, and apparently the locals collected alot of left over loot from the battle field, and lots still turns up.
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Permalink Reply by John Cooke on -
I'm glad it's not just me that stares at all that soil and can't understand why I never see a golden Saxon ring glinting in the ground.
Recently we found a load of very old, very attractive, blue glass lemonade powder bottles. When I googled them I discovered they were advertised on e-bay, for 99p each, with no bidders.
Ah well, just keep digging and hope that glint in the soil isn't a power cable!
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Permalink Reply by CJ on -
Know a digger man who checked through a shed once before tossing it with the bucket, found a buscit tin with 5 grand in it, took it into the old woman owned the place, she forgot it was there, it was stashed years before when the house was being renovated to stop builders getting it.
She never gavem a penny.
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Permalink Reply by Classic Gardens on -
Great story here re the painting
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23408957-earl-spencer-a-...
Makes you wonder.
j.p said:digging a border years ago and managed to dig up fluffy (not so fluffy ) the customers cat .....
her little daughter wasnt pleased lady forgot her husband had buried there run over cat in the border 6 months ago ......STUNK ...aahhhhhhhh pet cemetary
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Permalink Reply by Guy Marcal on -
I found a silver penny from the time of Edward the Confessor in a garden in Suffolk last year. I'm donating it to Colchester museum. In London I tend to find lots of clay pipes- particularly at the end of walls where I imagine they used to sit down and spark up the old things.
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