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| Bee Haven Maven |
Posted - May 08 2007 : 02:24:41 AM
Hi gals, I was wondering, have any of you found treasures buried on your farm? One of our friends found an entire truck buried beneath her pasture... And everytime I go out to clean our pasture, another golf ball un-earths itself. (previous owner used pasture as a driving range!) It is the strangest thing... If your farm is very old, there is probably an underground pit full of treasures, tho. Back in the old days, whatever did not get re-purposed was thrown in the garbage pit and buried. It is usually a treasure trove of old bottle, pottery, dishes, etc. Happy digging!
Keep Smiling.....Bev
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| Lovin Life |
Posted - May 15 2007 : 4:00:44 PM
When I was digging out a spot for our raspberry bushes, I came across some bones of some kind of large animal. Probably a cow or goat or something. They looked like leg bones. That was fascinating for my son, about 8 at the time, and wanting to be a paleontologist! Since then, I've only found little toy matchbox cars, pieces of glass, a tube of ointment of some kind, all rusted. Yuck. Marbles, nothing like Londonium gold unfortunately. Imagine finding that, how awesome!
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| MullersLaneFarm |
Posted - May 15 2007 : 10:57:22 AM
Most of what we find is old liquor bottles - seems one of the previous owners had a drinking problem and would bury his bottles!
The small pasture where are pigs are apparently used to be the junk/garbage pile. The pigs have dug up a LOT of stuff (besides liquor bottles!!) like an old toilet, car parts
Cyndi
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| katmom |
Posted - May 14 2007 : 8:29:48 PM
Marjorie,
your headless Barbie story is a hoot......so much for ebaying them...hahaha!
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| TillieB |
Posted - May 14 2007 : 5:39:02 PM
MORE! I was digging today and found another Barbie head! I actually refer to it as The Barbie Hofa case. It's pretty funny.
Marjorie |
| mima |
Posted - May 14 2007 : 07:12:06 AM
I love the barbie story too!!!! Awesome! Do any of you guys remember that classic oldie "The Bad Seed"? Love it! |
| Libbie |
Posted - May 14 2007 : 07:09:02 AM
I just love reading about these! The farmland that I live on has been in our family since the mid-1870's, and there have been a LOT of different things that have gone on here - a railroad through the back corner of the field...farmworker "camps" back along the fenceline...loads of sheep... Occasionally I'll dig up an old piece of pottery or a coin or a lovely bottle, but mostly it's just regular ol' trash from when this place was a rental for 30+ years before I moved in.
...AND, I just can't stop thinking about the Barbies!!!...We have a similar thing going on here, but with little army guys - missing parts - but they usually still have their heads !
XOXO, Libbie
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| Bee Haven Maven |
Posted - May 13 2007 : 12:02:22 PM
Wow, I have been gone for a couple of days...and you all have kept this thread going.....what a blast. Now, Tillie B., those headless Barbies are a little creepy...backdrop for a scarey movie! Lilpunkin....I share your fear of the mineshafts...but my Adventurous side might consider it (but only for a nano-second!)
Keep Smiling.....Bev
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| lilpunkin |
Posted - May 13 2007 : 06:47:40 AM
Majorie, That is hilarious about the evil little girl and all your baby finds. You got me laughing on that one. And Michelle, smart thinking on the roses. I wouldn't have known that.
As far as my property, I havent found too much yet. We do have 2 mine shafts though. I want to take my metal detector around those, maybe find some old mining tools. But I don't get to close to the holes, they are about 40 feet deep. We are going to work on filling them this summer. They are too dangerous. We also have an exit hole on one of our hills that I am sure links to one of the shafts. I would never go in, but wow, sometimes the bad side of me wants to. But then the scaredy cat sensible mommy side of me says dont you dare. And that side of me always wins! Other than that, I havent looked enough to find anything. Im sure I will explore alot now that it is warm out and there is finally no snow! Happy Finding to everyone!
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| Huckelberrywine |
Posted - May 12 2007 : 8:39:12 PM
Marjorie, do you have roses? They like the iron, you could plant a rose over the nail pit. Or scatter them in your rose beds. Might deter kitties from digging in the flowers? They are bright enough to "get the point" without getting hurt.
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| TillieB |
Posted - May 12 2007 : 5:45:20 PM
Barbies! Everywhere, I'll find a leg here or there, head in another spot, and one day I look down at two breast poking through the dirt. Another headless Barbie. It's funny and creepy at the same time, I'm thinking an evil little girl use to live here. Along with all the usual party lovers trash. Then there was the nail pit, someone dumped about a 5 gallon bucket of rusty nails in a hole. Needless to say the people who use to live here were gross. |
| Alee |
Posted - May 11 2007 : 9:29:19 PM
:) I know what you mean Michelle!
Alee |
| Huckelberrywine |
Posted - May 11 2007 : 3:20:02 PM
No, Alee, our place is hidden out of sight of nearly everywhere. Kinda like it that way. But I share with friends. :)
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| Alee |
Posted - May 11 2007 : 10:07:52 AM
When I was driving by the turn off to your town I saw a Coyote alongside the highway- Is your place close enough that she could have been one of yours?
Alee |
| Huckelberrywine |
Posted - May 11 2007 : 07:20:21 AM
...a huge coyote den! DH says it's the biggest he's ever seen. We don't have any livestock, so I may just leave well enough alone (not a popular idea). She can help keep the rodents in check (we have a grain field). I was out watering and could smell her. Next pass with the buckets, and she'd moved into the scrap heap, watching me. I could smell her in there too. Weird feeling...to be close enough and in air fresh enough to get back in touch with my own nose and ability to smell where an animal was...granted, coyotes have a strong odor. She'll probably move off to another den now, probably grudgingly. She must have put a lot of work into digging out a huge den.
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| sunshine78 |
Posted - May 10 2007 : 3:47:16 PM
I haven't found anything of note on my farm, but on a place I was helping to clean up we found a pediatric urine collector. I only know what it was because it was in it's original box.
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| Bee Haven Maven |
Posted - May 10 2007 : 2:45:12 PM
You should make a wind chime or something with the spoons!
Keep Smiling.....Bev
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| mellaisbella |
Posted - May 10 2007 : 07:06:14 AM
Wow!! indeed!! I went out this morning to dig in "the pile" I found another one of those crazy spoons. I now have 7. I also found canning jars, bits of broken dishes and lots of pop bottles.
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| Bee Haven Maven |
Posted - May 10 2007 : 04:00:04 AM
Wow...now that's a find!
Keep Smiling.....Bev
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| country lawyer |
Posted - May 10 2007 : 03:52:24 AM
Not me, but a friend who lives in a not-very-old house. It is probably late 60's or early 70's. Plain, small brick rancher in a quiet neighborhood. Her dogs dug up bags and bags of jewelry in the back yard. They were buried in different places in the yard. It was the good stuff, too! You never know... |
| Annab |
Posted - May 10 2007 : 03:41:21 AM
Forgot to mention the land that surrounds us. There are 2 old homesteads tucked back in the woods a few miles from us. Each still has a well...believe me, we made sure to cover both! One still has a fireplace in shambles, the other you can just barely make out a house foundation outline.
You can also follow an old road and a rickety bridge that finally buckled from the creek rising in a storm a few years back.
And of course, the preverbial junk piles, old recliner, other unidtenifiable objects and an old spring mattress.
I hear the price for junk metal is good these days. Hubby has already been scrounging and is trying to think of a way to pull an old 50's chevy out of the woods! |
| Beecharmer |
Posted - May 10 2007 : 01:36:06 AM
While disking the spot for our market garden last year we cam upon an unusual amount of red brick. The neighbor told it they were from an old cistern located there...we didn't dig deeper to find it.
My mom is always finding colored glass on the property . There is an old outbuliding completely lined with slate. Walls, floors and even ceiling. Our guess is that it was the stillhouse.
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Prosser, WA |
| horse |
Posted - May 09 2007 : 08:13:40 AM
I have a horse, dogs, cows, that are buried here. This hill was once a place where a bootlegger had his stash. I have found the old jugs, some were busted but a lot of them was still in good shape, I have cleaned them up and use them for flowers and such. I have also found stuff that got here from the tornado in 2001. I have also found some very interesting rocks. Isn't it neat to go and find things. I'm talking about things that are interesting, not bones. haha
Laura
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| Bee Haven Maven |
Posted - May 09 2007 : 07:58:17 AM
Wow, you gals have found amazing stuff....I am intriqued by Elizbeth's tombstone and the kindness that you show her, Julie, in placing flowers by it. Take a picture!
Keep Smiling.....Bev
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| willowtreecreek |
Posted - May 09 2007 : 07:54:20 AM
Tracy I will try. The spot is a little tough to get to this time of year.
Jewelry, art, baskets, etc.
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| Tracey |
Posted - May 09 2007 : 07:08:50 AM
Nothing. We're the first ones here; had to log the trees in order to create a building site.
Sandy, I want to go to that school! That sounds like too much fun, and I'll bet the kids learned so much.
Julie, I'd love if you'd email me a pic of Elizabeth! I'll put it on the cemetery blog.
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