THINGS FOUND IN FIELDS

onesiedale

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Derbyshire
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We call this our 'Roman Head', found it in one of our paddocks. Its only about 2", but really good condition. Dated to 45-75 AD
 

Fast Farmer

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Livestock Farmer
We had one of those turn up on one of our lakes too (we called him Ian). We obviously didn’t tell anyone, or the place would be full of bloody twitchers from the town, but unfortunately they got wind anyway, a few turned up uninvited and he didn’t hang around long after that.
Don’t tell anyone, but we have spotted him a couple of times since.?

Oh, and somebody found a human skull in the mud by the other lake a few years ago. Much excitement while local CID (that’s the bright ones?) found the farm, before they sent the skull off to their specialist dating guys at Llandod.
When the report came back the ‘specialists’ had managed to narrow it down to a juvenile/teenage person that had died at some time between 1700 and 1950. I came to the conclusion that they lie on Silent Witness.?

I think his real name was ernie, he escaped a cage near me and apparently he likes walkers crisps....
 

Roy_H

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Found a dead body of a young lady, A few years ago that went missing from the local town six weeks previous while we were combining ,enough said.
I mentioned this in another thread. I found a ' dead naked woman' face down in a hayfield when l was mowing some very thick and tall grass. I jammed on the brakes just before l hit her. It turned out to be a mannequin from a clothes shop that someone had thrown over the hedge. (Phew!) God knows how it must feel to find a real body but my heart was still pounding for 10 minutes after l had picked it up and moved it out of the way .
 
Doncaster Museum have 2 Romano-British querns and a Bronze age palstave (axehead) that we found and donated to them.
I found a small hoard of bronze age palstaves back in 1979. I was given a detector for Christmas and was headed home one night with the headphones on to keep my ears warm. As I stopped to hop through the garden fence, I heard a bleep and there they were. Winchester museum had them but I kept a few. :)
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Oscar

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Livestock Farmer
Pulled in to a field to go spraying , got half way round the headland and disturbed an Emu, stopped at the end of the run to watch it, called a few friends who thought I'd had a liquid lunch. When they arrived it took one look at them, jumped the fence and ran off down the railway line! Best days spraying ever.
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Was that recent as only a couple miles from you around a month ago I had a emu in a field as well !! I asked the farmer ( RW) and he said that it has been loose all spring and escaped from some house nearby.
 

Willie adie

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Location
Aberdeenshire
I mentioned this in another thread. I found a ' dead naked woman' face down in a hayfield when l was mowing some very thick and tall grass. I jammed on the brakes just before l hit her. It turned out to be a mannequin from a clothes shop that someone had thrown over the hedge. (Phew!) God knows how it must feel to find a real body but my heart was still pounding for 10 minutes after l had picked it up and moved it out of the way .

Auch after the 1st time you get used to it
 

Chae1

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Location
Aberdeenshire
There's quite alot of bronze coins in fields on our farm. Many of them are bent in half. Apparently it was a sign of strength in times gone by, to be able to bend them between your fingers. Used to be a railway line ran next to farm and coins would have come out in sewage from Aberdeen to spread on fields.

Can tell its Aberdeen when they throw money out with sewage!
 
Have found quite a few plane crash sites ,but there again I was looking for em !!!
A Halifax that crashed on take off ,a couple of P47 Thunderbolts , one in a friends field that everyone seemed to think was a Heinkel 111 , a Wellington (not the rubbber kind ) that crashed when the prop came off one of the engines !
Avation crash site finding is my favorite !
Once when we were draining we found a Wrexham Lager bottle ,a really old one , stuffed up the drain !
I reckon the drinker / drain layer had done it to get rid of it and thats what had been slowing the old horseshoe drain up for the previous god knows how long !!!
 

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