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Title: Have you checked your garden ? Post by: doddy10 on March 29, 2012, 02:28:12 AM very apt words engraved on the ring :)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2121610/Just-doctor-hoarded-Medic-finds-Civil-War-coins-worth-51-000-buried-garden--hands-museum.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2121610/Just-doctor-hoarded-Medic-finds-Civil-War-coins-worth-51-000-buried-garden--hands-museum.html) Title: Re: Have you checked your garden ? Post by: Val Beechey on March 29, 2012, 12:05:02 PM Just prooves, once again, how much luck there is in finding 'treasure'. Just need to be in the right place at the right time.
Shame my timings so bad. :-[ Val Title: Re: Have you checked your garden ? Post by: nfl on March 29, 2012, 01:08:41 PM ;Dhoards in the garden ;D.....my house was built it 1740 and the best find ive had out of the garden was a 1920s gpo badge ;D
Title: Re: Have you checked your garden ? Post by: Neil on March 29, 2012, 03:08:38 PM A great story - heres the photo
Title: Re: Have you checked your garden ? Post by: Kev on March 29, 2012, 03:20:48 PM great story . ;)
Title: Re: Have you checked your garden ? Post by: dances with badgers on March 29, 2012, 07:59:39 PM i got a 50 cal mortar tailfin from my mams garden.how did that get there?
a guy 3 doors up from me found a load of cannon balls in his garden whilst digging it over 20 years ago.wierd whats in the funniest places :) Title: Re: Have you checked your garden ? Post by: peanut on March 29, 2012, 10:28:11 PM I found a Charles 1st farthing and a cast bronze figure of a man in armour on a horse that looks like Charles 1st ;)
later this week I'm digging out a 15x15 foot area and I'm dying to get the detector on it again. ;D (http://www.flickr.com/photos/57957957@N08/6474300661/) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/57957957@N08/6477717599/) Title: Re: Have you checked your garden ? Post by: cam1986 on April 02, 2012, 08:30:30 AM What gets me is the statement that they will have to see if the guy gets any compensation!!! Surely he is entitled to whatever they are worth?
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