Weirdest Thing Found In Your Garden

[CharlyAngelic]

Inspired by a pre Christmas thread about Wonky Candles and a poster making a water feature out of a “minge” found in her garden.
I found male gay porn magazines ( in early 1990s ) and on a different occasion money ( 2 £20 notes , I think they were mine , to be fair , caught up in some till receipts for recycling bin )
I am sure Mumsnetters can better this !

a baby deer (when we lived in rural Oxfordshire)

We dug up the land to level the garden out and found a whole motorbike buried!

AornisHades

Bleurgh!

Slow worms.
The massive electricity supply cable to the housing estate built behind our house. Luckily it was unearthed by a JCB whilst digging foundations and no one was killed. Shouldn’t have been there. Cut off power to lots of houses until fixed, but not ours.
Fossils -ammonites and ‘Devils toe nails’.
I know someone who found the remains of a Roman villa with a beautiful tessellated mosaic floor in their garden.

Aside from a massive variety of buried and hidden bottles, two letter boxes, a chimney pot and a sheeps skull (there were other buried skeletons of pets as well so I guess it was a pet sheep) plus assorted drugs stuff under the hedges I think our 4ft high plastic mushroom was a bit odd.

As a child I came across a rock at the back of my garden and it had smoke coming from it!!. I showed it to my Mum and she agreed it did and made me put it in the dustbin as a matter of urgency.
Looking back what the hell was that? the only thing I can think of is some type of meteorite or something like that.

Smoulder Boulder !

@GnothiSeafton can you post a picture of your umbrella?
Some gross things especially the tampon.
Bodies ? Scary!
Lots of animals! Dead and alive .

A baby badger. In the days before digital photography and I had no camera film sadly.

Rudgie47 I hope it wasn’t a meteorite your mum threw in the bin - they’re worth a fortune.

My gran found an axe in her front garden...after extreme dithering, calling folks, etc, we persuaded her to call the Police, and it had indeed been used in a local crime.

For us, the statue of two pigs having sex was a unique delight left by the previous owners.

We brought it to our new house

Musket balls (lots of them)
Cannon Ball(whilst digging a pond)
We are on the site of a civil war battle.
Also lots of spindle whorls.

DH's grandparents woke up to an elephant munching their cabbages in the 1950s, it had escaped from a local circus. They put a rope around its neck and walked it home

A herd of cows. I forget who came to collect but someone must have (I was a child at the time.)

A live chicken appeared one morning in our garden, followed shortly by two cats on opposite fences stalking it. I went to get something to catch it and when I came back it was gone. A lady later appeared and asked me if i'd seen a chicken. She eventually retrieved it from a garden three doors down using a Primark bag and took it home. Bizarre morning.

We cleared a very large patch of brambles a couple of years after we moved in. In the centre was a clay pigeon trap - obviously been there for years. Having extracted it, gave it to my BIL who shoots.
Four years later, previous owners son rocks up demanding the return of the clay pigeon trap which he had borrowed from someone else ten years before we moved in! He was not best pleased to learn we no longer had it . . .
Muntjac and Roe deer on a daily basis, cows and sheep when they escape from various neighbours.

A girl who was passed out, next doors were having a 21st, huge marquee on garden, I went round about 4 am, it was horrendous noise, the dreadful snob who was hosting sent me away with a flea in my ear.

My dad lived in a house that he renovated from a gonk factory. For those who don’t know this term it’s one of those ugly plastic trolls with long fluffy hair that sticks up, that were massively popular in the 80,s when I was growing up, and have recently resurfaced. Anyway, when he was digging up the garden to make it into an actual garden, he had to plough through layers and layers of reject gonks the whole way across the yard that just hadn’t made it. They had no hair and often melted faces or not enough limbs. I would help him dig when I stayed with him and adopted them as my toys - all the other children at school had new shiny gonks that did things with lots of hair, but I pitied the soily reject gonks and took them into school. Didn’t much push up my popularity rating when the quality of ones trolls and stickers were key markers in 1991

Our house is at the top of a cul de sac which seems to attract rubbish left in the street somehow. We frequently find fag ends and crisp packets in our garden that have sod all to do with us. It must be some sort of wind tunnel thing. So if you live in Leeds and love Space Raiders and smoke Berkely Menthol TAKE YOUR FAG ENDS HOME AND PUT YOUR RUBBISH IN YOUR BIN!!

My DM lives about a mile away from us and close to a Jacobean stately home. Both our houses are on what was the old estate. My house deeds are fascinating! They go back hundreds of years even though my house was built in 1939.

I remember as a kid when helping with gardening we found endless parts of clay pipes, which probably dated back to the 16th and 17th centuries. Not found any treasure yet.

A pig trough. Made by a quarryman yrs ago. Very old and heavy and it was buried under loads of rubble. love it and its full of cottage flowers in the summer.

We have a soak away in the garden and quite a few years had a look in there and found a decapitated stone garden duck. Didnt have the actual foggiest as the where it came from.

The recently DS1 admitted that it was part of a load of garden stuff my neighbour (who had been evicted) was storing in my garden. Him and his mate were playing football and snapped the ducks head off.

I spent years wondering where the friggin duck came from

In my garden, a snake, well many snakes, I get lots of grass snake.

My mum’s garden is amazing. Where she lives is just full of fossils which is great enough but a corner of their garden was also the village midden so she gets no end of bottles and jars.

I just remembered that I found some things in the garden of the house I just moved into
A workshop with a pigs trough, 2 weird brush things sticking of the floor and a tied noose hanging from the ceiling...

I mean I knew it had a workshop

@Neumanne i really want to know what that would have been!

Here is my snake.

Last Summer 'Monty' the muntjac deer was a daily visitor to our garden. Considering that we live in a city and our tiny garden is only 16' long, this was quite surprising, and highly detrimental to my planting! 'Monty' was eventually captured by volunteers from a local charity and released into a more suitable rural environment.