Rubbish found in fields challenge

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Over the years we have moved a lot as we tend to buy wrecks, do them up and sell them. The fields have always been as bad as the houses and it's astonishing what people throw in them considering all the previous owners were keeping their own animals in them before us. Highlights so far include three washing machines so overgrown with brambles we only found them two years after we moved in, a tiny piece of plastic netting which turned out to be an entire tennis court net and, my favourite, found the other day:

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I only saw a tiny bit of its head but luckily it looked too square to be a natural stone so I started digging and this emerged! According to the OH it's an antique!

I challenge you to top this find!
 
Is it salvagable? I bet it would look stonking if you cleaned it up and gave it a new handle :)
I can't top yours but we've found in our field some wooden railway sleepers (no railway for miles!) that must have come from the old field shelter, some corrugated iron (roof from same) and massive sheets of plastic (no idea what from but in the same place as the old shelter so assuming it's shelter related) all pretty much buried.
I'm forever finding bits of crockery and glass too so every day when I do my walk through for rubbish etc I find at least one piece if not handfuls that have been churned up. There was an old building at the bottom of the field and I think that when it was knocked down it was done with all the crockery inside for some strange reason :/
 
Our old house had a whole garden of rubbish, we found bags and bags of video tapes and shoes, bathtubs, wheels and allsorts, all of it had to go through the house and in to skips. When we had cleared nearly all of the garden we found a car chassis partially buried. Exhausted by weeks of work at this point we built a wall of log edging around it, filled that in with gravel and made a nice platform for a garden bench lol
 
My dad discovered what appeared to be the pet cemetery of the previous owners over god knows how many years when was doing the field into a garden...........that and pill bottles
 
Haven't found anything interesting but have lost an amazing variety of tools over the years. That looks like a handy axe!

I am seriously thinking of advertising for a metal detectorist with an agreement that they can keep any Saxon gold they find if I can get my tools and expensive bits of machinery back.

If you think I'm kidding, I'm not!
 
old field we were renting the woman we were sharing it with found "part of an plane" i can tell you it was most certainly not part of a plane but a vibrator the field backed onto a row of houses and one owners flat coat retriver was a sod for jumping the fence and bring toys socks all sorts with him and said object was very chewed and covered in doggy teeth marks!
didnt have the heart to tell the woman what it really was since she was about 65 rather prudish and had brough it from one end of the field and left it in the tack room to show us x
 
Omg that's brilliant!


We get the foxes bringing in all the rubbish from a neighbours bike track behind our field. Had whole helmets, goggles, bits of wheel, towels etc
 
That's awesome. I found a blade off a plough in my field the other day which must have broken off years ago before the field was put down to grass :)
 
I have a mystery object buried somewhere in the field by my house. Last year I tried digging it up but couldn't. It is big, but how big I don't know, and made of metal. Could be anything really, my neighbours found a motorbike buried in their back field.All our fields were once owned by the same person who used to just bury stuff he didn't want.
 
apparently under our postage stamp of our garden is a whole car buried when the old garage the house stands on was closed they just buried everything left and built over the top! Next door has the work pit under their garden!
 
while checking the field at my old yard me and my friend found a snapped in snowboard half burried with a old dirty wedding dress ... it just appeared and it was in the middle of the cheshire country side very strange havent found anything at the new place haha
 
We have a large lay by at the top of our paddocks, during the day there is a burger van parked there and some nights it's used for overnight lorry parking. So far we have had a microwave, a front bumper, baby's and ladies(!!) nappies, a bicycle wheel, several wooden pallets, bottles and cans, disgustingly, lemonade bottles of lorry drivers wee and carrier bags of poo! Most useful were 12 trays of Kwik save fresh mushrooms some of which we had for breakfast!!
 
The owner of our house liked to bury his rubbish in the field. When we moved in we metal detected the fields and found 100's of keys (he was a locksmith), half a caravan, a vice, about 20 meter of heavy metal chain and a fabulous splitting axe (very useful).
 
When we took on our current place we found a working energiser, three sets of jump wings, a brick and tin stable under the 12ft high brambles, two wheelbarrows, I still keep finding the ends of electric tape, tug them and pull up metres and metres of the stuff. Once even pulled a gate handle complete with working springs up. We've also found coins, tools, a rusty old harrow, hagning baskets, half a farm tractor attachment (no idea what it was for) and kettles galore.
 
When we moved into our new home when I was 5 the whole garden (about 1/2 acre) was 8ft deep in brambles. My parents got a JCB in to clear it and they found a brick summer house and a victorian 'hot house' (a greenhouse with its own heating system) that nobody knew were there. They also found a big ornamental pond - but only when the JCB fell in it - had to get a crane to get it out!
 
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