Unusual things you have found on your allotment

[Helsbells]

As you know I am now the proud renter of an allotment, and yesterday spent a couple of hours digging. Amongst the bricks, concrete and broken glass we found:

Several parts of mans shoes,
A very old corona bottle,
A spoon,
A fork,

What about you?

[littlebluefish]

A bathtub, grounded and tied to the floor :P

[Welsh Girls Allotment]

microwave, coal bunker, numerous plastic bags filled with empty beer cans, pint glasses bread trays and the fun goes on

[hamster]

My mum knows someone who found a wedding ring on an allotment! He wore it for years hoping he'd come across the person who it belonged to, and eventually he did - about a week before they were supposed to move to Australia!

Funny old world.

[Cornelian]

Well, garden rather than allotment, but ...

One bathtub
One dog kennel
Bones of one dead dog
One WW2 air raid shelter
52 19th century chemist bottles and glass tops
14 fragments of beautiful hearth tiles
1 19th century lathe plaster tool
1 submerged sandstone garden path (best find of all )

[red]

garden too - but we found:
a starting handle
a tyre lever
a metal 'horseshoe' that ws really part of someone's boot
a wrench
a sharp knife

and that was just in the greenhouse border!

[ohareward]

When I was cleaning up our place I found a round mouth shovel, a large five pronged fork and a small four pronged fork and small spade. All minus their handles. I rehandled them and use them daily. Great find.

Robin

[Helsbells]

wow a world war 2 air raid sheter! thats amazing, I woudnt have anything brilliant like that because our allotment was cleared befoe we got there, everything we have found so far has been buried and dug up.

[Thomzo]

Garden again.
When I moved into one house I found over 1,000 olive oil bottles plus loads of nice jam jars in the garden. Many were broken but over half were fine. The previous owner had a business selling speciality oils and dressings. When they moved out they just left the bottles and jars. I couldn't bear to throw them away so kept them. I gave a few away but every time I moved house I took these bottles with me. Eventually I gave most of them to a reclaimation yard but still have a box or two just in case....

Zoe

[Thomzo]

Oh and best of all in this garden was a galvanised water dispenser for chickens

[Annpan]

A Ladle

A large pile of old floor tiles

Lots of rubble from a dismantled greenhouse (previous owner took it apart to use as firewood )

and we've hardly scratched the surface.

[Ranter]

Large amount of iron, mostly too rusted to tell what it was; several knives, a fork, lots of broken glass, a couple of complete blank bottles (1 beer, 1 medicine). The best find was a complete medicine bottle with the name of a chemist moulded into the glass, the same name as one of my allotment buddies. It now has pride of place on her kitchen windowsill.

[Magpie]

Garden...

A live nail bomb, complete with detonator. yes, really!

A terracotta buddah

A plastic sandpit, which had been completely buried

a plastic slinky

[yugogypsy]

An old clear glass patent medicine bottle, an old blue bottle, lots of broken glass, a tyre , bits of straight metal, nails, a piece or two of wire, and the remains of an old burn pile.

Being on an acre we've also had to take out a stump or two-found enough rocks to re-do all my flower beds.

Lois

[possum]

An assortment of dog tenis balls (we still see the previous owner so return them as we find them - up to about 8 now)
skipping rope
football
and just last week a swiss army pen knife in good condition

oh and taps (we thought we knew where they all were, but we still keep finding them)