What is the strangest thing you have dug up in your garden?

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I once dug up my garden and found old newspaper which were from the 1960s so that.

Dozens of broken up toilets! Previous owner had used the garden as a rubbish dump I think. 2 skips full of broken toilets, sinks and bricks. It took ages to dig it all out and sort out!

The grossest was a huge headless chicken - fox had buried it pretty well to save it for later and there was little showing bar a few feathers, thought it was a small bird until I tried to dig it up.
Most random was a large rusting candelabra, we were clearing a patch of weeds and rubble and it was buried at the bottom. It's massive floor standing and rather weird.

The back axle off a transit van
Various pots and pans
Women's clothes
Medicine bottles
Lots of bones

Nothing particularly exciting - several medical flats of different sizes, and some smaller round glass bottles. The latest find was one of these www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Excellent-Woods-6d-Areca-Nut-Tooth-Paste-Pot-Lid-from-Plymouth-c1890s/202297526812?hash=item2f19df4a1c:g:E-AAAOSw6-xa33fO last week - lid and pot.

We found a car buried under our compost heap ! My neighbour however went one better and found part of what we think was a B17 aircraft , that crashed in the village in ww2 .

Several old brown medicine bottles and a large rubble bag of rusted iron shapes. Possibly couplings of some sort? Went in the skip.

golf trophys with just the tiny head sticking out
ruined many mower blades as heads flew/there are dents in a couple sheds.
dinnerplates randomly placed4-5 inches under grass.
different house.
an assortment of animal skulls
a canoe

a young man in daytona beach florida found himself standing on a ww2 torpedo that washed up in a storm.baby brother kept calling him jesus because he looked like he was standing on top of the water

@commanderprimate I didn't take much of it in as I was distracted by the soldiers who came out to deal with it In the end, the did a controlled explosion (having evacuated the street) and we made a pond instead of a border

One of the crews on the building site of one of my projects once phoned in to say their JCB had dug up an unexploded ww2 bomb and asked whether they should stop working or just go around it 😳
My shrill shrieking to STOP everything, phone the police and evacuate the site did alert them to the dangerousness of the find!
The police evacuated about 1000 people whilst they stabilised and dealt with it.

A small plastic tiger, a piece of Roman roof tile and a meteorite.

In a previous house we found a long scaffolding plank lying flat under the grass, with next-door's garage built on top of one end.

In my old house, I dug up a plastic wallet (you know the kind that go in ring binders) with an sealed envelope inside. I was in two minds whether to open the envelope but after much deliberation, I did.

It was a note from a young child to his parents to tell them he'd run away from home because they wouldn't let him play out with another child (George, or Gregory or maybe Geoff- I couldn't fully make it out). It said he'd gone to Hull (this house was in Portsmouth) and he was going to get a job as a fireman.

I was going to frame it and display it but, by complete coincidence, the people who owned the house back in the 1970s got in touch a couple of weeks later. [Long story] When I told them about it, the bloke remembered writing it and I let him have it back. They sent me a photo of it framed in their house in New Zealand a couple of months later

That's a brilliant one, Blimey!

When the foundations were dug for our extension our builders found Some old pottery from god knows when. Plus oyster shells. I’m assuming it was from an old farm’s rubbish dump when our suburb justvused to be countryside.

Oh Curly, are you sure they weren't Roman remains? Oyster shells and pottery sounds like a Roman find.

Possibly! One of the labourers loves finding those kind of things during building jobs and he was so made up that I said he could keep them! As far as I know he hasn’t made his fortune out of them.

They said they often find remains of Roman roads while digging, and seemed very blasé about it (and knowledgeable too, describing the way they look and why it indicates Roman roads)

In fact I’m sure they said they had found what might be part of a road under our extension. They seemed very blasé about it and just carried on as normal, filling it all in. Like they find them all the time!

Watch out for ghostly legionaries tramping through your utility room, Curly

Dug up 3 tiny terracotta pots about an inch high, a large onyx egg, clay pipes, and most exciting a largish piece of carved marble. Definitely hand carved, a bit crudely done, and we wonder if it's Roman.

Grenades, Roman coins and lots of German beer bottles. Great fun digging the potato patch each year!