Question

So whats the most unusual, quirky, strange and interesting things people have found in or under their gardens? I seen a post the other day of a perfect pathway found well underneath the grass and i wodered.  theres gotta be peculiar things under ground just waiting to be found.  

Answer 1

A patio!  

Answer 2

A friend of mine in Ireland dug a duckpond and discovered an old Citroen 2CV buried in the garden.  

Answer 3

A saw from an old saw pit, an old iron glue pot

Answer 4

I have found a few sets of dentures!  

Comments

@zeiger8 I found a way of dentures once how weird

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Under what circumstances do you bury your teeth in the garden lol

Answer 5

A dog  

Comments

@birt good grief!  

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The previous occupants had been here a long time and it wasn't their dog, so must have been a long long time ago. We reburied it, but it upset me so much.  

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@birt flipping eck, we buried 2 dogs and 2 cats at my Mum and Dads house in the middle of their back lawn, someone else lives in the house now since 2005 hope they haven't been digging lol

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I have cats buried at two other properties, my ex wouldn't let me have them cremated. Breaks my heart. I have all my animals cremated when their time comes now. At least I can take them with me when I move.  

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@birt I know me too but when ours died they didn't cremate pets then :( x

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:( hopefully if anyone did go digging and found them, they would rebury them respectfully xx

Answer 6

Big bits of Marble

Answer 7

We found this last week

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Wow, love that!  

Answer 8

A bicycle and a window frame sunk into concrete about a foot below soil.  

Answer 9

My kids once dug up a moped from our garden ! And they got it working - they later swapped the moped for an electric scooter lol I took the relaxed approach to parenthood  

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Chanelle ask pete - was it a scooter they swapped it for or a gameboy ?  

Answer 10

I found old broken plates and that

Answer 11

Lots of marbles is as exciting as my garden gets  

Answer 12

A car in bits all there just cut up  

Answer 13

Oh and I forgot to mention everytime we did we find little toy soldiers and planes etc  

Answer 14

I found a handy bottle opener. z

Comments

@pennate I like that

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@morale5724 coming inhandy at the mo xx

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@pennate yes lol

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That's a nice find.  

Answer 15

In years to come someone will have fun digging up my garden I have buried 2 huge concrete line posts and a complete concrete fire surround and hearth , will put pic in the comments  

Comments

@thinner just why ?  

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@trail70282 because it was easier to bury it that to break it up to take to the tip  it was in too poor condition to keep , when we moved into our house last year it was stuck in a 50s/60s time warp and had to be gutted  

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@thinner yes because we all like digging up other people’s crap  we’ve had bags and bags of rubbish buried in huge holes, a huge roll of plastic sheeting and more! It’s an absolute joke, it’s taken so much work just to make it safe for my kids to go in!  

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@yate9837 its my garden and at my age last place i will be living my kids will inherit my house they know it's there so no problem. Anyway it creates great drainage  

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@thinner fair enough if it’s your house. Mines a typical council nightmare  

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@yate9837 well there you go I've lived in my share of council places and i have only ever left behind far better gardens & properties than I moved into . My house is ex council and I have found alsorts even dead cat remains (which I 're buried) . I'm sure in many years to come if anyone digs up our old fire place they will probably be fascinated by it lol

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@thinner true! Ours is just pure rubbish  

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@yate9837 all I've buried is stuff that at nearly 60 years old is too heavy for me to move , as it was we had to drag it down the garden on an old carpet . Which incedently isn't buried all carpets went to the tip  

Answer 16

Well, my husband found a big black d***o when he was digging ours up  

Comments

@benedick I thought Dodo's were extinct  

Answer 17

My friend dug up a vegetable plot and found a beautiful patio. She also found stepping stones in the middle of the grass as she got it cut lower down

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@prophecy I read piano  

Answer 18

Over the last 7 yrs of being here as we have done bits to the garden we have found. A jumper Several bin bags The heal of a gents shoe The mechanism for Sach windows And several cogs/gears. When we built the extension we found part of an Anderson shelter  

Answer 19

I'm trying Tiger nuts this year

Comments

I love tiger nuts. Did you find them in your garden?  

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No I sa them on another gardening post and thought . ooh something I've never tried. I'll give those a go. Do you have them too?  

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@quick80744 that’s odd I thought the post was asking for unusual things found buried in your garden  

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They were something my mum used to eat when I was a child. Haven't seen them for years and then found them in my local Sainsbury's few months ago. They are nothing like nuts really. They are sort of chewy and sweet.  

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@orinasal26313 you are totally correct. I'd read a post earlier from a guy asking what unusual things people were growing this year and obviously have been distracted and answered here. Ha ha oh well I'll leave it here just for fun x

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@reflective good can't wait try them x

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@quick80744 haha brilliant!  

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@orinasal26313 Ha ha oh well made me giggle at myself on this rainy day :-D

Answer 20

Just rubble

Answer 21

A 19th century silver plated pepper pot, couldn't find the salt pot  

Answer 22

Foundations from one of the previous buildings, our cul de sac was a school in the 50s demolished in 70s was wasteland for an allotment for 15yrs then our homes were built

Answer 23

A little blue glass bottle stopper and a old bottle that could possibly be a poison bottle ☠️ because it's got ridges down the sides.  

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@whim72 not necessarily poison, just a liquid for external use, rather than internal use. So it could have been eg some sort of oil for the skin, disinfectant or cleaning fluid.  

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@mutz4/activity" class="qa-user-link">mutz4 thanks @mutz4/activity" class="qa-user-link">mutz4 I wasn't sure I do remember poison bottles had ridges on them but if I remember rightly the ridges were on the back of the bottle.  

Answer 24

Im going to be putting a covid 19 time capsule under our concrete hot tub base. Going to add a letter, some photographs of our lockdown garden makeover, sone newspaper clippings etc x

Answer 25

Old bird baths gave them a clean up also an entire tree cut up and buried and some bones when our garden was leveled for a patio.  

Answer 26

I found lots and lots of old dog toys and bones buried in what looks like it used to be a flower bed  oh and a plastic banana!  

Answer 27

6 bottles of nail varnish

Answer 28

Jewellery, half a motorbike, spare tyre, few large bones, some coins, broken bottles from Victorian times looked like pharmacy bottles. Oh and a lovely rockery someone just put turf over but at least it solved the mystery of lawn mower breaking.  

Answer 29

Unfortunately i don't have a picture but found a whole bathroom suite!  

Answer 30

A dead cat in a bag It was actually a black bag full of browny green stinky goo and hair, the previous owners bred siamese cats so we assume its one of them but didnt dig any further!  

Answer 31

I cleaned up my newly obtained allotment and found a sheet of corrugated tin. When I moved it I discovered a well so I stopped paying my water charge much to the chagrin of the committee

Answer 32

Gem Belle remember when you found a horse buried in your garden.  

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@splasher83 noooooo?!?  

Answer 33

All of my 70 years I've been waiting for buried treasure or a Roman fort. never got one though  

Answer 34

As long as it's not a dead body.  

Answer 35

A pedestal for a bathroom sink, a car tyre, lots and lots of bricks.  

Answer 36

My wife nearly dug up the remains of a dog belonging to the previous owners of our house.  

Answer 37

When we demolished our garage base we found bones and a dressing gown. Had the CSI out and it turned out to be an animal, was interesting though

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Woah that's strange! :o

Answer 38

Next door have a motorbike. He covered it back up and left it when he discivered it

Answer 39

A buried bin with a lid , I think it was to dispose of dog poo? It’s still there in a corner.  

Answer 40

Car bonnet

Answer 41

4 mattresses, a ladder, a car axle, socks, 4 glass bins of glass, kitchen unit bits, oh and a path lol. Still work in progress almost 2 years on

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@prefabricate4 Must have had a bed wetter. Lol

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@trail70282 lol everytime we dig, we still finding things think weve finally finished digging now though thankfully  

Answer 42

Just dirt

Answer 43

A 1/2 pence piece.  

Answer 44

I found this. Think it's a stone age tool.  

Answer 45

When I was having my fence put up the joiner found this wee beauty. It's a screw from the railway line my house is built on. Where I am was sidings and a sawmill then right next to that was the Royal Station in Ballater. I gave it over to the village historical society. Apparently it created quite a stir  

Answer 46

My mom dug up a bath and an air raid shelter many years ago also a load of bottles if she had held onto them she would ya e made a load of money on them a lot of old medical ones with marble in them xxx

Answer 47

We had an Anderson shelter in our garden when we moved in here app. 36 yrs ago

Answer 48

Mattress and a broken shower

Answer 49

Fox den under brambles

Answer 50

I found a pond under a load of brambles that I didn’t realise I had , I just kept wondering where all the frogs were coming from !  

Answer 51

Found a greehouse buried a old bed mattress and a load of broken tiles.  

Answer 52

A royal doulton butler sink!  

Answer 53

Great big lump of red granite

Answer 54

A car bonnet and a fish tank !  

Answer 55

Typewriter keys  

Answer 56

I found 6 p coin in a glass mouse

Comments

@convery9250 I know?  

Answer 57

Anderson shelter which had then been covered in concrete with a rockery on top.  

Answer 58

I found some kind of irrigation system in my garden. I have pipes coming up from the ground and it went to the green house and parts of the garden. The previous owner loved gardening, so I'm guessing he fitted some kind of watering system. We dug up these massive metal water tanks that the pipes were connected too. I still dont know for sure what it was in my garden, but I was gonna make a water feature out of the tanks we have found.  

Comments

@apish Trinder this sounds like my garden. The metal pipes were attached to a boiler that heated water around the greenhouse.  

Answer 59

I found a shed under a mountain of clematis. I was really excited about opening it, I thought there could be alsorts of treasures in there but there was only a few old paint tins and a broken mower

Answer 60

Found just the front of a checked shirt and Jean's thought it was a body at first

Answer 61

Candle stick holder , dead fox  

Answer 62

An old dog leader  

Answer 63

We couldn't see how long our garden was when we bought our house because of all the brambles and rubbish in it. When it was finally cleared we found a metal shed with car roof bars in it, and various bits of scrap metal, a wooden shed that housed a large rats nest.  I've never seen so many rats dart away when it was being pulled down. We've since found lots of bricks, concrete and rocks but nothing of interest yet.  

Answer 64

Dad found a dead dog in a bag, while digging the new patio:(

Answer 65

I kid you not but I dug up a little while ago, a complete back light from possibly a cortina or similar. No photos but also another time, a dukes of hazzard style car horn complete with all wiring and electrics, probably from the same car. Various other car parts, broken. A 10ft concrete washing line post, whole. Milk bottles, smashed and a couple of whole ones. Part of a mattress, rusty springs and damask. Lid off a Pyrex dish. T shirt. Lots of crisp packets, even the ink was pretty good after at least 20yrs in the ground. Part of a wooden window, with smashed glass. Bungee cords, rotten. Loads of rocks and stones. I'm still in the process of digging so there'll be more no doubt  

Answer 66

I spent 7 days hand digging and leveling the massive hill on the other side of my garden. All I found was an old penny dated 1966. The year I was born  

Answer 67

Rocking horse dung

Comments

@metrical no, wow

Answer 68

My neighbors were digging up their garden bed and hit metal, turns out there's a whole truck buried by the previous owner and turned it Into a garden. They tried to dig it out but it was going to be too expensive so they left it so now it's a pretty garden with a secret

Answer 69

We have this interesting shaped possible window that was hid behind a massive fuchsia. The town is very old I'd like to think it's part of history.  

Comments

@amperehour153 that’s lovely

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Thank you ☺️

Answer 70

Entire kitchen carcass. Under a layer of carpet. Topped with a layer of bin bags.  

Comments

@ralph you in my back garden  

Answer 71

I found a skull the other day. I think it’s a cat my daughter thinks it’s a fox. When it stops pouring down I’ll take a pic and see what you all think  

Answer 72

Porcelain false teeth

Answer 73

We found a 2nd greenhouse. We thought we only had one  

Answer 74

Found loads of bricks with the area I lived in stamped on them.  

Answer 75

Apparently there's a motorbike buried in our well. One day we'll remove the concrete cap and have a look

Answer 76

Whoever digs up our garden after we've gone will find 4 cat skeletons. Beloved pets.  

Answer 77

Loads of rubbish, carrier bags, glow sticks, sweet wrappers and other random junk. dont understand why they didnt just throw in the bin

Answer 78

Cast iron grate, old wooden wheelbarrow with metal wheel, a couple of clay pipes and a lot of Victorian bricks and pavers.  

Answer 79

I was digging up my dad's garden recently and found a little Steele hammer I made in secondary school it had bin buried there for 15 years  

Answer 80

We found a WW2 bomb shell, thank goodness it wasn't a live one, however we did have the police bomb squad ect to make sure  

Answer 81

We cleared loads of ivy, soil, weeds etc on a bit of unused land just outside our garden fence. We found a low brick structure, with a wooden hatch, and next to it some large metal plates. When we lifted them, we found the workings for an old canal sluice - we live in an old lock keepers house, so not a mega surprise, but we didn't know the old sluice existed!  

Answer 82

I’m still hoping for the Essex hoard. I’m sure King John must have come this way before he got to The Wash and supposedly lost his treasure.  

Answer 83

My daughters and I were digging ready for a patio when we found several bones they were quite big, so we phoned the police and they took the bones for examination and fenced off the garden. We were all separated and questioned, it hit the local paper and for 5 minutes we were famous. Until the police informed us it was a sheep bone with marks from a canine on it.  

Answer 84

We have a ladder in our hedge with a random smurf painting on the fence behind the hedge

Answer 85

Recently dug up a pet rabbit it had been wrapped in a bin liner  so nice & sloppy bit like chicken soup with fur n bones  

Answer 86

I found a gold and ruby ring, I thought it was Roman treasure. Turned out to be a ring my mum had thrown at my dad in an argument 30 years before.  

Answer 87

@sayed baskin

Answer 88

There was part of our garden that we didnt even know was ours, years of neglect from previous Found: Bike Roadworks sign 1 boot 1 wallet (started to get worried at this point, no body to go with the boot though, phew)  

Answer 89

I filled in a horrible fish pond with broken garden fork and spade, all sorts of lumps of iron etc, covered it with topsoil and made a bog garden. When I moved in there was a rockery at the end. made up of a tile surround fireplace with some earth and a few large lumps of rock, it’s still there.  

Answer 90

When I moved into a rented property I found lots of very weathered, hallmarked silver spoons and a cigar cutter out in the back yard!  

Answer 91

A motorcycle buried about a foot under the grass only found it as the garden sloped and we decided to level it out . WHY?  

Answer 92

We recently bought a new house and just started work on the garden, so far I have dug up at least 100 Quarry tiles hidden under the grass. Think the original owners used them for small patios around different parts of the garden?