Anyone found anything unexpected on their land ?

Not very exciting but we had a great big hole open up in the parents back garden....turned out it was an old victorian cess pit and the walls/roof had perished and it was falling in on itself. Had to be filled in......but could have been interesting when mum was digging her potato's over the top of it when this great big hole appeared
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In my parents very small suburban back garden they found a cast iron hand pumped water pump and half a concrete bench. They also acquired a blackberry bush that won't be told it isn't welcome - the garden was just mud when they moved in so lots of gardening needed.

We find lots of old metal work in our garden as our house is on a brownfield site. But we are hoping to find hubby's wedding ring......... if not some archeologist in centuries to come will get lucky!
 
A horse's skeleton. Not in the field , but close to the house when we put in the foundations for a garage. Think it pre-dates our 1840 house.
 
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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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OMG? Really? That's very interesting! We've got absolutely tons on them appearing all around the barn! (and it's victorian too!)
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Just last week my Dad found a couple 'at it' in the bottom field ... He took great pleasure in grabbing his gun, pretending to be drunk and shouting "I know someoneshhh there.. im gonna shoot you all" whilst staggering down to the field and waving said gun around.. Apparently they screamed and shouted a lot and then ran off attempting to get dressed
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Yes, my Dad's a mental case!! And that couple must have been - shagging in a field in this weather?!
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Would LOVE to have been the buyer!
Man buys a house (owner and his wife died, no heirs, state sold the house to pay taxes or something like it).
There is a barn on the land, not been opened in years, the doors to the barn had been welded shut. Man gets out his angle grinder.....

http://www.intuh.net/barnfinds/afa70.htm

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Oh wow, thats amazing!
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Half a dead rabbit in the hay trough only last week. The bottom half. Severed in 2 very cleanly. No blood, just a bit dusty on the severed end. Very fresh.

We have a railway line over yonder and I reckon that bunny stepped across just as a train was coming and chopped him in half.

Fox brought it home to eat later.

My ponies thought dead bunny was very sad :O(
 
We have an Iron Age Hill Fort at the top of the hill on the 16 acre field on my MILs Croft.
All thats left is a double row of stones buried into the top of the hill about 40ft in diameter.
Its overlooking the Dornoch Firth and opposite a major Iron Age Fort on the promenance into the Firth on the other side of the river. As a Forensic Archaeologist I was amazed, but no one in the family or elsewhere seems remotely interested!
There are a lot of hill forts in the Highlands apparently.
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Would LOVE to have been the buyer!
Man buys a house (owner and his wife died, no heirs, state sold the house to pay taxes or something like it).
There is a barn on the land, not been opened in years, the doors to the barn had been welded shut. Man gets out his angle grinder.....

http://www.intuh.net/barnfinds/afa70.htm

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I love that story, but sorry it's not true! Following the 'index' on your link brings you to background information and it says <font color="blue">Manuel Menezes Morais shot the photos, but he was sworn to secrecy about the cars’ location and the owner’s name. However, he was able to obtain permission from the elusive owner to give me the following information:

The owner of the cars was a car dealer in the 1970s and 1980s, and decided to save the more interesting cars that came through his doors. When the barn was full, he padlocked and “soldered” the doors shut. (Perhaps welding was too permanent.) </font>

Sorry
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But I do like your version better for what it's worth!
 
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