Interesting Unearthings

[Stonehead]

Finds from around the croft:

Stone axe
Bronze arrowheads
Medieval spurs
Scythe blade
Fire grate
Lister engine block
Assorted Airfix soldiers
Two cat skeletons in ply boxes
Assorted cartridge cases
Yard upon yard of baling twine
Contents of a midden (under what had been the kitchen window of the spare cottage)
Tons of boulders!
Dozens of pieces of pottery and porcelain

But best of all was when I lived in London - a neighbour dug up a German 250kg bomb.

Stonehead

[alcina]

Bloody hell! You lot should be on "Cash in the Garden" or some such tv program! I'm with Andy, all I seem to dig up is cat poo!

Alcina

[justkate]

There was dolls leg that turned up for a couple of years, the I threw it away. We also found a bucket thing, that has some kind of mechanism inside, I'm not sure what it is because it's completely rusted, but it makes a nice plant pot holder.

Kate :-)

[Chickenlady]

Look - I live in what was supposed to be the capital of Roman Britain, Britain's oldest recorded town, and all I find is earth!

[Wombat]

That's better than the unexploded bomb!

Nev

[Lou8]

Finds from around the croft:

Two cat skeletons in ply boxes

Awwww - that's sad.

[eeksypeeksy]

The lower jaw of something with incredibly long, thin teeth, like long thorns. If it was someone's pet, I'm surprised the owner didn't die first.

[The Chili Monster]

Empty crisp packets (various)
Flint
Dog toys

[Millymollymandy]

I'm collecting skulls! Not dug up, but found on the property. So far we have a fox and a something that I can't identify because I think it is only part of the skull. They are currently residing on the garden table as 'ornaments'!

[Stonehead]

The lower jaw of something with incredibly long, thin teeth, like long thorns. If it was someone's pet, I'm surprised the owner didn't die first.

Polecat or weasel?

Stonehead

[eeksypeeksy]

> Polecat or weasel?

After looking about the web and seeing this, I'm starting to think it must have been a fish -- the teeth were spaced similarly, though they were proportionally much longer, sharper, and rattlesnake-fang-like than this example's are, but still spaced all along the mandible.

[Stonehead]

After looking about the web and seeing this, I'm starting to think it must have been a fish -- the teeth were spaced similarly, though they were proportionally much longer, sharper, and rattlesnake-fang-like than this example's are, but still spaced all along the mandible.

Ouch! Remind me not to go in the water...

I've just come in from talking to a neighbour, the one who owns the land with the stone circle on it, and the most interesting find they've had was a burial kist with a skeleton.

Stonehead

[The Chili Monster]

Just found out why I'm not unearthing cat poo ... the &%^£!*) dog is getting to it first ...ugh, yuk.

[Millymollymandy]

Well, so long as you don't kiss the dog, he/she's doing you a favour!