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Title: Bottle midden in garden Post by: herbie on February 07, 2013, 12:02:48 PM Just been digging in the garden and found a bottle midden, quite a few in there along with lots of broken ones, seems to date from early 1900's onwards, thoroughly enjoyed it! :)
Title: Re: Bottle midden in garden Post by: Neil on February 07, 2013, 12:10:34 PM Nice one Herbie - baring in mind the "newest" ones will be on the top - did you go deep enough?
I have only dug bottles a few times, but thoroughly enjoyed it. Happy Hunting Cheers Neil Title: Re: Bottle midden in garden Post by: probono on February 07, 2013, 01:40:52 PM I can tell you are well chuffed - I would be too.
I only found (apart from about 30 coins) half a bed, and a used bullet in my garden :( Title: Re: Bottle midden in garden Post by: Napoleon on February 07, 2013, 02:39:00 PM welldone and collectable for some so bravo my friend. Nap :)
Title: Re: Bottle midden in garden Post by: herbie on February 07, 2013, 02:40:34 PM I went down about 3 feet and then started hitting a lot of stoney stuff and gave up to be honest, there are other ones in the garden in various places so will get round to digging them all at some point. The house is an old 15th / 16th century manor house so I'm sure there's lots of stuff to find, it was just that we are having some new drains put in and they were digging out over the midden so I had a poke around before they filled it in again, oh and of course detected the spoil ;) :D
Title: Re: Bottle midden in garden Post by: Roman (Ray) on February 07, 2013, 03:40:49 PM welldone butty lovely finds...
Title: Re: Bottle midden in garden Post by: probono on February 07, 2013, 03:50:56 PM I went down about 3 feet and then started hitting a lot of stoney stuff and gave up to be honest, there are other ones in the garden in various places so will get round to digging them all at some point. The house is an old 15th / 16th century manor house so I'm sure there's lots of stuff to find, it was just that we are having some new drains put in and they were digging out over the midden so I had a poke around before they filled it in again, oh and of course detected the spoil ;) :D Anything in the spoil then? Sounds like a cool garden to detect in :) Title: Re: Bottle midden in garden Post by: win on February 07, 2013, 04:00:16 PM Had a new floor put in the living room a couple of years ago, pulled out all the old boards. Found a Vicky shilling 1884. Have found various military badges and buttons in the garden.
Title: Re: Bottle midden in garden Post by: Mungo on February 07, 2013, 04:09:30 PM nice one Herbie .........keep going......... 8)
Title: Re: Bottle midden in garden Post by: herbie on February 07, 2013, 04:11:38 PM I went down about 3 feet and then started hitting a lot of stoney stuff and gave up to be honest, there are other ones in the garden in various places so will get round to digging them all at some point. The house is an old 15th / 16th century manor house so I'm sure there's lots of stuff to find, it was just that we are having some new drains put in and they were digging out over the midden so I had a poke around before they filled it in again, oh and of course detected the spoil ;) :D Anything in the spoil then? Sounds like a cool garden to detect in :) A couple of vickies and a few very ordinary buttons in the spoil. I'm sure there's loads of stuff in the garden but it's very trashy to detect, over 500 years of debris etc laid down, had a couple of nice buckles, William & Mary farthing, a bronze medallion and a nice farthing token so far. Am thinking of going to the county archives to do a bit of research on the house itself when I get time as I know there were a couple of big fires that destroyed parts of it, so the way it looks today isn't the original layout. Title: Re: Bottle midden in garden Post by: WeCan-Octavian on February 07, 2013, 04:36:01 PM Bloody brilliant well done
Title: Re: Bottle midden in garden Post by: dances with badgers on February 07, 2013, 05:19:15 PM look for parts where only nettles grow and dug in there ;)
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