We have been gardening on this same plot for twenty-five years and every year we find new artefacts. Some old and some not so old. Some things I just leave in the soil if it was found in the flower garden. Apparently back in the day, where our gardens are was once a great reed bed outside the village and a common place for the inhabitants to toss broken pipes, pottery and some iron things. There are also various types of stone that appear from time to time. Some of the more interesting bits we place on the windowsill of out garden shed. I am now going to show you them from outside the window and inside the window. Will begin with the outside looking in aspect: Then from the inside looking out: I do this so that you can see the objects from two different angles. I am showing these, but if you have any idea what items two and three from the left are, tell me what you think. I suspect that at least one of them may be a meteorite. The smaller of the two. It is dak and quite heavy, considering its size. Article number four (from the left) is half of a smooth sphere. It is a bit large, but I get he idea that it may have been fired from a muzzle or perhaps used as a weight…I don’t know. Any and all ideas are welcome. If I think about these questions too long, I form opinions and develop a sort of tunnel vision. Here is my tunnel:
Those are indeed interesting things, @Sjoerd. You live amongst such a long history, with settlements, domestic life, war and violence, industry, agriculture. I find it all very compelling. I have no idea what those objects might be! One day you might find golden coins. Maybe a trove from a Roman legionnaire, a Viking hoard, or a neolithic priestess. Maybe a saber tooth tiger's tooth, or a wooly mammoth's molar.
Sjoerd, you are a kindred spirit I have a shelf like that and all sorts of things that I've dug up here. I have 3 meteorites, 2 that I've bought and one that I found in the veg garden. I would like to see your one closer. I've found items here that are from every period since the ice retreated, there has always been someone here in the village. I have mesolithic tools, Celtic Bronze, Roman glass and pottery, Saxon and Medieval pottery and then later musket balls and hand made nails. I found Medieval floor tiles inlaid with lighter coloured slip, usually from important buildings but more likely they were dumped here when the Victorians "restored" the church I'm currently metal detecting the campsite, finding many tent pegs, but also money and rings
Zigs, I've thought many times about doing that. I expect I would only find nails and screws, but you never know.
I've had detectors on and off since 1975 Daniel Found a lot of nails, silver paper, coke can rings etc. but also some pre first world war artillery shells, Celtic lead tokens and lots of coins from the 1600's onwards. Tetters gave me the current detector for my birthday and it took me 10 minutes to find a gold wedding ring, halmarked Birmingham, 1969
When I was digging out my koi pool in 1986, I discovered an 1800s glazed earthenware 1 pint beer bottle, with the brewer's name in black lettering on the side. It was completely intact. I washed it out and took it indoors and put it on a kitchen window sill. I forgot about it for a few days. When I went to find it, I found it had disappeared. My wife told me, "I wasn't having that dirty old thing in my kitchen I put it in the bin!" Our house is built on what was always farmland until the mid 1960s.
