Have You Found Anything Interesting On The Farm?

On our farm we used to find loads of horseshoes and other metal stuff related to horses. apparently there may have been an blacksmiths on the lad in the 1800s. so we used to clean them up and put them up in the tool shed. We never brought them with us when we sold up the farm. Pity.

There's an old ringfort on the farm here, and I used to go metal detecting in it when I was a kid (before I knew you weren't supposed to do such things). Used to find old coins, holy medals and such. Incidentally they used to bury unbaptised children inside the ringfort (there's also the remains of an old church in it), so now and again bones would make their way to the surface.

Farmhouse itself is an old cottage - knocked the internal walls years back to find dozens of holy medals in the rubble - put there when it was built to keep the home safe. We put them back in the walls after renovating - figured they'd done their job well enough so far. Still have two of them here though.

Found a big black hole that all my money and sweat keeps disappearing into :rolleyes:

Grand father found 2 old axe heads from the neolithic/ iron age (not great with history!!!) when clearing an old wall back in the 70's. They're up in the national museum now.

More recently while knocking the corner of an old stonebuilt shed I found a small bag with a handful of unused rifle bullets in the middle of the wall. Makes ya wonder what they were there for or who put them there...

rushvalley wrote: »

Grand father found 2 old axe heads from the neolithic/ iron age (not great with history!!!) when clearing an old wall back in the 70's. They're up in the national museum now.

More recently while knocking the corner of an old stonebuilt shed I found a small bag with a handful of unused rifle bullets in the middle of the wall. Makes ya wonder what they were there for or who put them there...

we too found axe heads and they too are in the national museum

Found an old mustard jar and old coins when digging up a water pipe.
And then there's all the sheep bones

DarByrne1980 wrote: »

were ya ploughing your own land? How does someone bury a car in a field without someone noticing

No idea. Was for a neighbour at the time. Real old Ford car in a I think. Caught the roof

nothing.... but i buried a heap of s**t for the future generations to find

DarByrne1980 wrote: »

We found four mattresses dumped down a lane into our fields years back. Not all dumped at once but over the course of a few days. Who has four mattresses to throw out and why did they pick our place. Anyway waited till halloween kept them in the shed dry and had a woeful bonnfire with them. long before environment protection came in.

Great kindling

So if something of archeological
importance is found by the metal detector on a self propelled you're screwed?

ganmo wrote: »

So if something of archeological
importance is found by the metal detector on a self propelled you're screwed?

It's a catch 22 law.

It's legal to metal detect
It's legal to dig if it starts beeping (assuming you're not in a protected area of some sort)
If what you dig up is of archaeological significance, then what you just did is illegal.
IF what you dig up is the wheel rim of a morris minor, what you just did is perfectly legal.

wexie wrote: »

nahuh :



The legislation certainly seems to be phrased somewhat vague :



so what about I happen to find some archaeological objects while I'm looking for my carkeys? I coulda sworn I dropped 'em round here somewhere last week, when I was walking my dog!

2 foot under the ground!!!!

Managed to get a JCB so stuck, the mudguards were under the ground level. While trying to claw my way out to dryier ground turned up a beautiful pair of quern stones. About 16 inches across and very finely tooled. top one has a hole near the top edge for a wooden peg to be used as a handle.

foxylock wrote: »

I found a wife!!

I think that's the money black hole the lads are on about

Kevin McCloud wrote: »

I reckon it could have been there 10-15 years old when i found it, would the frost have damaged it?

The freezing point of alcohol is too low for the frost to have any effect. Is it still crystal clear? If so taste a drop. Or if you're not happy to taste it, burn a drop. Maybe it only water :-)

Used to find loads of weird crap in ditches on my cousins farm , old glass fishing floats, old horse drawn implements (cousin knew about those ) and weirdest of all a pair of opera glasses...(not close to a theatre and not that type of family anyway)