[Bangbang]

When we bought our smallholding we found a suprise in the
small forest - an old car. upto its arches in pin needles, no body
just tyres engine and frame - Ive dated it around 1935 by its
steering wheel. I plan further inspection when I have time.
The trees were planted around it.

Has anyone else had strange finds on there property ?

( the forest is also an old middin, the rabbits are forever digging up old bits of pots etc.)
 

[robert waddell]

you may get some good ceramics

[Hermit]

The burn that runs through my property comes from a group of old crofts further up the valley. I love looking in the burn for old pottery and bottles etc. I collected them and made a mozaic showing all the flowers on the pottery, makers marks, brand names,  pottery dolls faces, keys , handles and spouts etc. Collecting for another mozaic now. My croft used to be the cobblers for the area and we found shoe lasts in the barn roof but other than that just loads of huge fishing nets and hooks buried in the fields. I have to check the chooks dust bath areas for hooks they are still digging up. We do have an old landrover in the burn that was put there years ago to stop the bank eroding we cannot get at it to clear whats left but another winter should do for it.

[doganjo]

When we bought our croft in Aberdeenshire  we started a veg patch and found - a tin gozunda (potty), tiny pony shoes, Clydesdale shoes, wooden nails, iron nails, a metal hoof iron, an old kids bike, hundreds of red bricks (the house was granite so goodness knows where they came from ) loads of other stuff - and on my windowsill now I have a collection of clay and glass bottle stoppers (marbles)

[lachlanandmarcus]

The old boys who used to own our farm used to drive cars into the dyke at the far end for fun or when the car died. There are several rust heaps there, a real pain, all sorts of wiring looms. One is def a bug eyed citroen/renault as the headlamps are fairly intact.

[MAK]

It seems standard practice to dump a car in a wood here in the Limousin. The OH is taking photos for an album. She has even found 2 small fire engines ( Berliet circa 1950) in  a wood just up the lane.
Old tools such as a 2 man saw littered our barn and we had a working grinding mill in the loft and mechanical wooden threshing machine sits above our living room ( but inside the barn). My daughter and OH painted an old seed drill bright red and planted flowers in the seed box.
We have a small horse drawn trap in bits - the 2 wooden wheels hang from the rafters and other bits from the walls. A nice renovation project one day.

[Lesley Silvester]

When we viewed our house, I was more interested in the garden.  I was intrigued by what looked like a small chimney but without a pot, sitting on the ground.  I asked what it was and the man looked as if he was hoping I wouldn't ask.  It contained his father's ashes!     He assured us they would be going with his mother when she moved.  (Shame.  Bone meal is ggod for the garden.  )

When the garden was mine, I kept finding remnants of a gnome village - stone toadstool, little wooden house, gnomes, etc.  Most of it went to the tip but the toadstool is concreted in so I'm stuck with it.  It makes a useful stepping stone.