Anyone found anything unexpected on their land ?

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I've discovered what appears to be an old road at the front of my property which has lain under mountains of mud n brambles and am wondering what to do with it, not sure if its classed as previous hard standing with planners so could put a barn up or something.

Also what looks like a victorian or older grave stone thing. Could be an old road marker, needs a good clean up to really see though.

Anyone else discovered strange things.
 
LOL as you do
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We have a roman villa under excavation on our land...i have also found 2 cast iron shallow troughs which i am using a planters. We are always finding old glass bottles in the bottom paddock- its as if they rise out the soil..
Re your hardstanding- if you check something like google maps - satellite picture in the summer- you often get a discoloured area to indicate its size and shape. You could also check the planning history for the site- check back as far as it goes, including agricultural permissions- you never know what you may "unearth"
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We found a helicopter once!!
Someone with more money than sense took it out for a spin and thought it would be ok to land near our 30 year old retired TBs! They were not happy!

We also found a sleeping baby deer while topping the land, it was asleep infront of a huge tractor and wouldn't move! We had to poke it to wake it up! Then it got up, stretched, yawned and ran off at speed!
 
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Now thats exciting, I'd love that.

I'd also be pleased to find an old bugatti but I can't see that happening anytime soon.
 
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Just a suggestion but in Victorian times they used to lay glass bottles under the earth of animal pens to keep them warm in winter, this could be why the keep "popping up!"
(You learn alot from watching victorian farm
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We are always finding old glass bottles in the bottom paddock- its as if they rise out the soil..


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Just a suggestion but in Victorian times they used to lay glass bottles under the earth of animal pens to keep them warm in winter, this could be why the keep "popping up!"
(You learn alot from watching victorian farm
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I LOVED Victorian Farm!!
 
Whats the theory behind that then ?

Bought the VF Book as a xmas gift and the guy loved it. Am loving Monty Dons new farm programme aswell.
 
We found an ancient mud filled sheep dip, well we did'nt but the shire did as he got stuck nearly up to the withers in it, and we had to get the fire brigade to get him out!!
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yeah a bugatti would be nice!
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we've found 2 flat bed trucks under loads of brambles behind a barn. at a previous house we found old carriage wheels and a cider press
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Whats the theory behind that then ?

Bought the VF Book as a xmas gift and the guy loved it. Am loving Monty Dons new farm programme aswell.

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I *think* it is something to do with convection, with hot air rising to the soil surface and trapping the hot air. I can't remember the exact reasoning.
 
I guess they trap a layer of air?

We have no land, but our old dog did exhume the long dead budgie from the rockery once. That was fairly unexpected...
 
Erm ....

a dead body.

Well it wasn't my land but land belonging to the farmer where I kept my horse about 25 years ago. A local docor had gone missing and the body was found near to my horse's field several months after he went missing.
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Erm ....

a dead body.

Well it wasn't my land but land belonging to the farmer where I kept my horse about 25 years ago. A local docor had gone missing and the body was found near to my horse's field several months after he went missing.
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Oh no. How sad
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A metal-detecting enthusiast found a small bar of medieval gold in one of my Parent's fields, it was considered to have a market value of about £1500 but was considered by the 'powers that be' to be of historical interest so it was put in a local museum and all my Folk's got was a little card in the museum saying "kindly donated by XXX"
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When my parents bought their house 25 years ago, they found a full set of showjumps and a horsebox! Stupidly they sold them as they were not interested in horses at that point (until a fair few years later!) They also got 2 cats, 2 goats and a pig (all were alive!)
 
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Erm ....

a dead body.

Well it wasn't my land but land belonging to the farmer where I kept my horse about 25 years ago. A local docor had gone missing and the body was found near to my horse's field several months after he went missing.
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Here is part of it:
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Pavement:
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overview:
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Its a 3-4th Century Villa and the archeologists have found three bodies (just bones)- all children
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We now have a licence to exhume human remians- sounds exciting but its a real palava having to call police,coroner etc. We are hoping they will be returned at the end of the dig but the County Council have a consecrated burial ground for bones found in digs so they may go there.

Thanks for the info re the bottles, i would like to think the vitorians as Isambard Kingdom Brunel built the bridge next to us. Sadly its more likely to do with when it was a campsite in sixties and seventies
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How was this discovered ?

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The farmers plough kept catching/bringing up big flints and there was a distinct small but straight "bank".A local enthusiast asked to have an exploratory dig et voila! They have also found a flint courtyard under another field of ours.The whole of our land has been scanned by ground radar and they also find the arial photography very useful especially in drought when the colours are very clear.
 
Junk, junk and more junk.

We do cut our hay with a couple of sickle mowers that we found in our forest which OH waved his wand over and mended. Worth nothing as scrap, saved us about $5000 though!



I have no idea what else there is in there, parts of it I have never bothered to go into.
 
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I found a playboy dvd in one of my paddocks yesterday
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There is a footpath on the otherside of the hedge so someone must have thrown it over - why?
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maybe they think your horses need their sex lives pepping up,
my dirty old 2 would have been nagging for a dvd player when i got there
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I found a fossilised fish in a perfect hemishere of pebble. We are not near the sea, but at 1100 feet.

And a bronze age flint arrowhead, dropped by a trader on the salt trail, that I picked out of my horse's foot.

I treasure them both.
 
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