Unusual things you have found on your allotment

[Masco&Bongo]

Garden again:

Glass, lots of thick glass. Nowhere near the house or greenhouse
Chunks of low-grade asbestos
Toy cars
Tiles
Spoons

Was hoping to find some ancient Roman tiles etc, then Time Team could come and dig all my field up for me

Sadly, when we did find some tiles, they were of the B&Q variety

[ina]

a plastic slinky

What's a slinky, Magpie?

The garden that belongs to the house where I currently live has only yielded a tiny, pink plastic doll's shoe. I keep finding it every year, as it's so small, it's not really worth chucking out...

The garden where I lived before had countless numbers of golf balls. I must have thrown out about 50 of them before I realised that there was a market (of sorts) for "experienced" golfballs.

[the.fee.fairy]

Nothing that interesting!

i'm hoping to find the earring i lost as a child!

We found lots of bits of land-drainage pipes. They've gone into the pond now, but we've never found anything particularly spectacular! not like bombs ad bottles!!

I'd love to find old bottles, i'm after a load for my incense ingredients (i want that olde worlde apothecary look for them) i've got them from charity shops/jumble sales so far!

We ave found long-buried dog toys though- we had a great dane x who hated anythng blue, so he'd bury blue balls in the garden so he didn't have to look at them. i've found one, but the others are a mystery!

[Magpie]

a plastic slinky

What's a slinky, Magpie?

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It's a toy - a big coil that you can make walk down stairs and things? Sorry, a bit hard to explain! Just hoping you remember them now! They were a big fad a while ago.

[ina]

Ah, thanks - don't think I've ever seen them, but I can imagine what they are like...

[possum]

A slinky is one of these

[Magpie]

That's the one! Except ours was multi-coloured plastic... had a fun time extracting it from the soil, onne coil at a time.

[Thomzo]

Oh another one, from my last house this time. It was an 80's house in a row of similar houses. for some reason my garden rose up at the back whereas all my neighbours' were flat. I moved in during December (best time to call the utility companies to change your address by the way is Christmas Eve. You get through straight away!).

Anyway, I digress. Over the winter a hole developed in the slope so one day I went to investigate. I put a fork in the hole and it almost disappeared! Yikes, scary. I'd heard rumours about subsidence in West Swindon but I hadn't realised it was that bad!

I dug about a bit and slowly uncovered an entire shed and a wooden frame of a greenhouse (no glass fortunately). Apparently the previous owners had demolished a shed and a greenhouse and just buried it Once removed, the garden was as flat as my neighbours'.

I really can't see the logic in burying it. It must have been more effort than taking it down the tip. The hole that developed as the wood rotten and broke down was really dangerous. If I'd had kids I would have been absolutely furious with the previous owners.

Zoe

[Christine]

From my (really very small) garden: amazing and disgusting set of tyres, bicycle bits, rubbish, computer monitor - all burned. The neighbours said there was always a thick pall of smelly black smoke rising from the bottom of the garden. In addition, found dead dog buried in plastic carrier bag. I won't paint you a picture but CSI had nothing on it.

from the allotment: more than 5 car loads (to the dump) of broken glass and burned stuff from previous arson attack and a scary doll's head - the sort trainee hairdressers use for practising - with sunglasses. She is now my mascot and her hair is fetchingly interwoven with moss.
More useful was a wheelbarrow with tyre incredibly still inflated, a bath and an iron tub. Can't think what to do with the tub, which has a hole in the side, but reluctant to chuck it out.