Gardening finds

Lotus-eater

I found a 1927 halfpenny, which I really like, it's not worth anything, but I just think of a gardener working in the garden and dropping it.
I went metal detecting on public land a long time ago, down in this remote area near to a path, I found a 1941 Canadian coin. I have this idea of a Canadian soldier meeting a local girl and leading her to this remote spot for a bit of cultural integration and losing the coin. I like the romanticism behind the idea

cannyClaire

Dannie, I suggest you send those pics to someone who deals in antique golf equipment. You'll find out what you've got and whether it's worth anything.

Sally_A

Dannie...I've copied and posted your pic on another forum I frequent - there are a few golf fans there, so they may be able to help out. will report back if/when I hear.

PS. Do you reckon these are musket balls?

http://www.growveg.info/viewtopic.php?f=1128&t=15090

dannie

Some more interesting comments thanks.

cannyClaire - yes, I've thought about emailing the pictures. I did pass a local golf course today but too early to ask anybody. Probably be better emailing someone more experienced anyway.

dannie

Sally A, thanks that's very good of you. I will be very interested in any opinions/info.

zarazara

broken crockery. horse shoe. bones,probably sheep,a sheep's skull,broken clay pipes,old milk bottle.

Sally_A

My garden, used to be a plum orchard, pig grazing, and is also on the edge of where the Romans met the Britons, also close to the Battle of Lansdown.

Loads of clay pipes, crockery (mostly in the hedges), bottles that got thrown out with the pig slurry from posh houses/hotels, a serving spoon with a Royal Crescent stamp on the handle, skulls (I hang them up to freak out my daugher :cool:), a lead button. a button that might have been civil or military, ie either postman or soldier.

I'd love to do an exterior showcase with all the finds (or tat as OH calls it).

cannyClaire

Forgot to say what I found:o

Victorian terracotta chimney pot buried upright and intact, lots of marbles, old bottles, lots of old blue paving bricks (some old blue building bricks as well, they have 'Diamond Jubilee' in the frog) enough to lay a front path with and edge the lawn, one old coin (ha'penny) a few animal bones, remnants of bonfires, lots of broken terracotta roof tiles with 'Victoria' stamped on the back and a glass drinks coaster, which I use in the house!

My house is Victorian and was built on fields so all finds are 1897 onwards.

elantan

We found a house in the back garden of the house we currently live in .... In a previous back garden we found a shed with all it's contents and a king size bed mattress etc ... But the house we have recently dug up takes the biscuit

izzwizz_2

old shoes, hundreds of glass bottles, bottle lids, tins, cobblers' metal thing that they used to use to hammer new soles on shoes when the old ones wore out, old plough, dairy sign, sadly never anything that was worth anything