THINGS FOUND IN FIELDS

[HolzKopf]

I think it’s called the Iron Harvest. Anything they find in the fields are left on the verge and there is a weekly collection service!

Slightly off topic - particularly as we're not in Europe anymore

I'm interested in WW1 and have found loads of curios in French and Belgian fields, around the Somme area, the 1915 Loos area and also around Ypres. Buttons, badges, .303 rounds, 'pig-tail' fence irons, barbed wire (two whole coils on one occasion) steel ball and shell shrapnel, artillery nose cones, timing and bronze driving rings, mortar spigots, corrugated iron and leather. My interest began when I was 12 years or so old when a cottage owner near Ypres, in his eighties, showed me a full case of British machine gun rounds still in their belts and canister, 50+ years after the war. He was digging his vegetable garden and had just struck the case and dug it up. In the early days, I brought a few rounds back after extracting the bullet and tipping out the cordite but not now, not worth the risk. I have some nice desk top artefacts.

On the backroad verges, field margins and farmyards there are piles of 'ploughed up' ordnance still. Generally collected monthly by the french and belgian bomb disposal guys particularly during the spring and autumn. Many tractors that are used for ploughing or other cultivation have steel plates welded on a frame that hangs underneath and polycarbonate screens over the cab side and rear windows.

All the stuff I've found in fields has been on accessible paths, roadways or woodland and spotted with my own eyes not a detector. God knows what is still out there if you trespass off the beaten track or use a metal detector. A colleague of mine, ex sussex police, did a couple of years working for UK Border Force at the Calais tunnel. Kids bringing live ordnance back in the boot of the old man's car post holiday is not unheard of

The three artillery shells in the field pic below are all unexploded

HK

 

[CPF]

Was on the news yesterday

 

[tw15]

Had a load of fly tipped on the boundary in neibourghs field old hen house dry plucking machine and general garden crap and a kids battery powered racing car the car and the dry plucker jumped the hedge . Rewired the plucker that sold on ebay for £250 the kids car put a couple of 6 volt batteries on it so it went at face walking pace and a bit wiring and daughter had years of fun in that when she was 3 -6 years old . It is nice when you have a result like that but litter and fly tip really annoys me .

 

[Lincs Lass]

Nieghbor walking her dog found this few weeks ago ,covered in chip fat ,dumped on the verge in full view now in my shed

 

[goodevans]

From the blurred picture I thought it was going to be the plants in the background

 

[Courier]

Have a field on reclaimed pit-stack which was down to grass for silage which got dubbed “teddy bear field” after being used annually by persons unknown for a teddy bears picnic and collection of soft toys being left behind and getting into the second and third clips of silage.
Planting with Miscanthus has put a stop to the trespassing but the field name remains.

 

[Exfarmer]

From the blurred picture I thought it was going to be the plants in the background

Dont think they bare what you are thinking g

 

[Lincs Lass]

From the blurred picture I thought it was going to be the plants in the background

The only plants you'll find dumped round here have come out of a converted attic,,those very smelly weeds

 

[TripleSix]

The only plants you'll find dumped round here have come out of a converted attic,,those very smelly weeds

The devil's lettuce?

 

[ollie989898]

Christmas Eve a few years ago I found an old boy on the bank of the brook alongside our field. He had got confused in the night after an argument with his family and wandered out, losing his way in the dark and stumbling into the brook.
I found him at about 9am and he was in a bad way, violently shivering. The air ambulance came out and they took him away. He was ok after a few days.
Family came round a couple of days later with loads of gifts like I had saved his life, but I only found him and kept him warm with the help of a neighbour. It was a bit embarrassing.
He was lucky though. I don’t really know why I decided to go right down the end of the field that morning. We had it half fenced but wouldn’t have got back to it until after new year. I suspect the foxes and badgers would have had a good Christmas meal had I not found him.

In happier times, I made hay in the same field a few weeks ago. One of the wheels bolts fixing the dish to the rim fell out. About two weeks later I walked across the field and found it right at my feet! I didn’t bother looking for the nut and washer.

Not uncommon for elderly folk to get confused and wander off, never to be seen again... Your tale could have ended far more sadly.

 

[tw15]

Forgot about the time when walking the dogs here , we had a festival here a month earlier and walking through a gap in the hedge found a canabis plant 3 foot high in a pot that had been hidden .

 

[Netherfield]

Nieghbor walking her dog found this few weeks ago ,covered in chip fat ,dumped on the verge in full view now in my shed

Pee'd off Sainsbury's driver.

 

[Worm digger]

my dad walking the dogs found an ejector seat with life size dummy in a flight suit and helmet from Boscombe down test flight school, they had been searching for it for days.
Scared him rigid as he thought it was a real pilot.

 

[ollie989898]

Going along the road home from work one day came across a nice pallet moving thingy that had obviously fallen off a wagon. Quickly reclaimed and brought back to the yard, handy geezer that.

 

[Netherfield]

1000 metre roll of telephone cable, grey two core stuff.

Large amount of traffic cones 50+thrown over the wall, probably by Saturday night drunks walking home.

A few cars and bits thereof, Saturday night drunks driving home, somehow couldn't see the bend in the road

Oxygen and Acetylene bottles, close to a metal recycling yard, reckon someone was coming back after dark for those, returned to the rightful renters.

 

[Danllan]

Someone dumped a stash of porn by one of our test sites. We're not talking about a carrier bag of old Fiesta magazines either, it must have been a good pallet load of grot mags that were of such specialist subject matter it would have made your average aficionado of German or Dutch hardcore niche porn throw up. No attempt was made to hide it, it was just dumped in the middle of one of the fields that skirt the test site.

Have you got any left?

(not asking for @Bald Rick )

 

[ollie989898]

There must be instances where people find crashed cars (and their deceased occupants) in their fields, where people leave a main road by accident at speed, hurtle down an embankment and are never seen again only to be found later by a farmer cutting his maize or something?

 

[Scholsey]

There must be instances where people find crashed cars (and their deceased occupants) in their fields, where people leave a main road by accident at speed, hurtle down an embankment and are never seen again only to be found later by a farmer cutting his maize or something?

know a lad who used to do main highway verge trimming and he or should I say the hedge trimmer found 1 or 2 unfortunate chaps who must have been hit by a car whilst walking along the road or just lay down and died on the side of a road.

Would imagine would be character building sorting that out.

 

[Red Fred]

There must be instances where people find crashed cars (and their deceased occupants) in their fields, where people leave a main road by accident at speed, hurtle down an embankment and are never seen again only to be found later by a farmer cutting his maize or something?

I found a Cavalier which had gone off the road and down a steep bank before it came to rest against a tree. Luckily the owner had legged it but I was very nervous about having to look inside. It stayed there for ages until the police got cheesed off having to look at it whenever the council did a litter pick, so in the end I lifted it to our side of the hedge with the tractor and put it in the scrap skip.
A much sadder story was the Escort that drove off the A31 slip road at Ringwood one night and ended up upside down in the river at the bottom end of the farm.. It only left a small hole in the roadside paling fence so no one took any notice until a fisherman spotted it under the water a week or so later and the police found a youngster's body inside. It turned out that a teenager had been left at home while his parents went on holiday, he had taken his mum's car for a night clubbing in Bournemouth but no one had noticed him or the car missing until the family came home

 

[Lakes Nash]

Rare commodity! A fridge! But it had the new one delivery note inside!!