Buried “Treasures”

Digging up our yard to plant our garden, we've found all sorts of things underground: solid hunks of metal, old tools, rebar and wire, a couple pieces of old decorative ironworks, whole bottles of different shapes and sizes, piles of broken bricks, tiles, bones, and of course endless shards of broken glass and ceramics. There are small piles of glass next to all of our garden beds as we continually pick them out as we go. (The sheer quantity makes me suspect we will be picking up pieces of broken glass for as long as we live here.)

A 5-gallon bucket and a half (and then some) of rubbish.
Not shown: the pieces of metal too large to fit in the buckets.

It was one thing to dig up small bottles and jars, but
finding whole large bottles is pretty surprising to me.

So far we've only found two things that won't go in the rubbish bin. Our first weekend at it I found a florin, which is pretty neat. I was not familiar with the florin denomination, which is worth 24 pence (or two shillings.) I also found a glass marble last weekend.

Two shillings. (Or, maybe $15 if it's in good shape for a collector.)

I'm not exactly sure what is the history of our lot. This house is relatively recent, built in the 80s, and we've been finding garbage that appears to have originated in the 1940s. (Besides the 1941 florin coin we've found bottles with dates on the bottom, 1942 and 1946.) Our lot was a part of the lot behind us and then subdivided to make a second lot--though whether that was around the time the house was built, we're not sure. It might be worth it to take another trip to the local museum and learn more about our town's history. Also, since I have started working for a solicitor/conveyancer I have had to inspect Council records for other people's properties, so it might be of interest to someday inspect our own.