What have I excavated?
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Because nothing says Festive Break like digging up the garden . I ve got a few days off work so am pulling out an old patio and so have worked down through a layer of sand; seemingly a second, earlier patio, and now hit what looks to the corner of some sort of manhole cover or something .
Last remaining section of the Original patio:
What might a second , earlier, patio or possibly an old garden path that was patio d (is that a verb?) over
Possibly a bit more second patio:
And then next to that, what looks to be some sort of purposefully placed casting which seems to have had a lid put on it at some point.
The house was built in 1955 and I believe the site was just an empty field before then .
Last remaining section of the Original patio:
What might a second , earlier, patio or possibly an old garden path that was patio d (is that a verb?) over
Possibly a bit more second patio:
And then next to that, what looks to be some sort of purposefully placed casting which seems to have had a lid put on it at some point.
The house was built in 1955 and I believe the site was just an empty field before then .
Edited by johnpsanderson on Tuesday 30th December 17:08
Despite a brief wibble of anticipation when this was unearthed (ooh, a trapdoor!!!) 
as well as some random lengths of metal pipe, it s turns out the concrete casting was probably some sort of footings / the weird lid a skim of some kind of concrete/levelling compound perhaps.
I did briefly consider recycling the contents of the Nazi-bunker discovery thread for the newer members, but knew I d never get away with it
I did briefly consider recycling the contents of the Nazi-bunker discovery thread for the newer members, but knew I d never get away with it
Simpo Two said:
You should get Time Team in. They'll soon find out it's an Iron Age settlement.. and then you'll have to pay the council £10,000 to knock your house down...
Or get Lance and Andy on the jobhttps://youtu.be/DZDxo6ZHR0M?si=UziGfje7Ld7oz6Zr
ian996 said:
Funnily enough we live about halfway between that field and Dan(e)bury, but sadly there was not a whiff of Tizer ringpull or Ford Mustang…We used to have an old house ,some of it 240 years old . Quite a large garden and was originally the farmhouse of a very large orchard,with history of making cider .
I dug up part of the garden and found a well preserved Roman mosaic.
Stopped digging and wife got on the internet and about 3 days later two chaps from the local council along with a history expert , two ladies from natural England and an archeologist person all arrived.
We didn't have enough mugs to make them all tea.
They got to inspecting my find quite quickly and I was waiting for the local newspaper to take my grinning picture ( there was no photographer really)
I had found part of a swimming pool from about 1970.
Very proud
I dug up part of the garden and found a well preserved Roman mosaic.
Stopped digging and wife got on the internet and about 3 days later two chaps from the local council along with a history expert , two ladies from natural England and an archeologist person all arrived.
We didn't have enough mugs to make them all tea.
They got to inspecting my find quite quickly and I was waiting for the local newspaper to take my grinning picture ( there was no photographer really)
I had found part of a swimming pool from about 1970.
Very proud
johnpsanderson said:
Despite a brief wibble of anticipation when this was unearthed (ooh, a trapdoor!!!) as well as some random lengths of metal pipe, it s turns out the concrete casting was probably some sort of footings / the weird lid a skim of some kind of concrete/levelling compound perhaps.
cliffords said:
We used to have an old house ,some of it 240 years old . Quite a large garden and was originally the farmhouse of a very large orchard,with history of making cider .
I dug up part of the garden and found a well preserved Roman mosaic.
Stopped digging and wife got on the internet and about 3 days later two chaps from the local council along with a history expert , two ladies from natural England and an archeologist person all arrived.
We didn't have enough mugs to make them all tea.
They got to inspecting my find quite quickly and I was waiting for the local newspaper to take my grinning picture ( there was no photographer really)
I had found part of a swimming pool from about 1970.
Very proud
I bet you will never not chuckle at this at random times remembering it. I dug up part of the garden and found a well preserved Roman mosaic.
Stopped digging and wife got on the internet and about 3 days later two chaps from the local council along with a history expert , two ladies from natural England and an archeologist person all arrived.
We didn't have enough mugs to make them all tea.
They got to inspecting my find quite quickly and I was waiting for the local newspaper to take my grinning picture ( there was no photographer really)
I had found part of a swimming pool from about 1970.
Very proud
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