Lost Garden

[DragonsTooth]

You have tiny round headed red foxes in your garden - cool!

Keep diggin - you never know what you might find. Not many people know that approx 98% of the stuff you find on ebay is dug up from people's back gardens.

[Eliseharris]

@PhiltrumOz I had to use the one I bought - the cheap one! The effective one was loads of money while this was under £5.

[MyOddSock]

That's not a bee...it's a mechanised dragonfly with a porthole. If you look close you can see a man inside clutching his joystick with vigor. If you switch to 1080p mode you can see he has one of those new pico sized web surfers. If you now squint you can see he is also watching Elise Harris on YT. It's amazing what you can find in the garden. BTW: A fork (normal garden size variety) would make digging those tangled roots easier.

[katn3]

Hey, you have your own Lido! When are you going to open it up to the public?

[cchjimhk]

A hatch from the Lost!

[audadvnc]

In Northeast Minneapolis some years back, the police were pulling bodies out of a neighbor's backyard. Seems the landlord was running a Social Security scam: she'd rent to aged pensioners, they'd die, and she'd bury them in the back yard while continuing to cash their SS checks. They dug up about 20 people before they were done.

America, the Land of Opportunity!

[Eliseharris]

@audadvnc I sincerely hope that's not what happened here!

[lidskidder]

maybe, as the house has been there since the 1930s, it's part of an old Anderson Shelter, or something. Of course, it could just be a pond, too! :)

[Eliseharris]

@lidskidder yes, when I was using the garden fork before digging and I hit a hard surface over a large area my first thought was bomb shelter. I think it must be a pond though. We shall see! I am unexpectedly free tomorrow so maybe more digging if it's dry.

[xxxMrSuspendedxxx]

The curvature of that piece brought to mind a concrete cap for an old cistern, finished as a bowl for a small garden pond or burn-pit, but later on it appeared bigger than a typical cistern.

This might be where Britain buried their uranium pile from their first go at confirming that America's Manhattan Project had a chance of unleashing the atom.

Churchill got on the phone with Stalin and said, "Hey Joe, you might ought to split Germany rather than claim it all, hey? The damn Yanks are pissed."

[Eliseharris]

@xxxMrSuspendedxxx my parents saw this video and because of a trick of the light they were convinced I had dug up an unexploded bomb!

[Tartooth]

What a space to have to plan in!

[MessiahComing]

Shit! Cover it up! You found a hidden government base!

[ujdo]

Looks like a pond used as a fire pit at some point. Call the university and tell them you think you found a new pond henge. Then they will send out a bunch of students to do the digging. ;-)

[MyOddSock]

I know someone who found a car buried in their garden. ... and someone who found a coffin under a rockery.

Under my patio.. I found another patio. Under that I found a broken sewage pipe... at least it was broken after I put a pick axe through it. Doh!

[klexenmeister]

What is it: There are two possibilities that spring to mind, Elise...

#1. The remains of a Roman-era funeral pyre in which young Angle and Saxon virgins were sacrificed. The Jute virgins, however, were spared. Because they were the cutest!

#2. The sealed entrance to an undiscovered WWII era underground bunker that leads directly to @10 Downing.

[anyname13579]

is pond the brit term for pool?

or is it like, a pond type thingy for fish and stuff and just to relax around?

GAH, BRITISH - AMERICAN EGLISH DIFFERENCES ARE ANNOYING!

also, i agree with one of the comments about making videos showing us continuous updates. seems like it would be a fun project and would be neat to watch!

[Eliseharris]

@anyname13579 we tend not to have pools in the UK (though the very rich might!) Ponds have fish or frogs or just water in them and are decorative but not for swimming! Lots of people have them.

[anyname13579]

@Eliseharris that is so neat! i like that a lot. it seems like it would be nice to sit by and listen to music or read a book or just simply sit and think. i want one now! it sounds so relaxing.

[jon6fern]

Hi,

Your axe is a fairly primative tool known as a matock.

Can't wait to see what is unearthed next - perhaps you could invite the TimeTeam

[Barelyjazzy]

Could it possibly be some sort of fire pit? Like for baking or cooking something on a spit?

[Zoot101]

I hope to see a part 2 - I am intrigued by this strange 'pond' in your garden...

[CommentorX]

You have the wrong tool for the job. You have a flat shovel, and you need a spade. By spade, I don't mean a racist term for a black laborer (though one of those would certainly help.) I mean a pointy, thin shovel that you can use to break up compacted dirt.

A cheap hoe would help too. Cheap hoes are hard to come by in Delaware, but I hear that they are quite common in England.

[Eliseharris]

@CommentorX I know, but this cost £5 and the big shovel thing I needed was about £40! There is a rusty one in the garden but it has no handle.

[Priestofbabalon]

You actually look lovely doing this.

Hope to see more of this kind :)

[Brainiac1056]

The structure is probably a pond and someone has burnt garden debris in it. I've got a similar thing in my garden and I use it for burning roots, twiggs, leafes and such. Then later on I use the ashes on the trees, clean it and fill it upp with water. Great bird bath. :)

[Ape65]

It's probably a pond that someone used as a fire-pit. In Canada we cannot make ponds out of concrete because frost heave and freeze-thaw cycles would eventually crack the concrete. We tend to use rubberized liners instead.

[craigybus1]

Have a nice long sit down, a nice cup of tea, and some biscuits..The pond theory is probably right, and they probably got bored of it, or had kids and didnt want em to fall in etc..

[VisionGhostPoet]

I remember turning over the garden at my parents house in North Wales, we came across pottery, car parts, matts, tools, everything but gold I think haha!

[blackturtleshow]

I wonder if it would be prudent to test the soil for lead given the apparent "history" of the lot. I suppose if you're not going to grow plants for food, then it doesn't matter. BTW, what are you planning on growing on this plot of land?

[Eliseharris]

@blackturtleshow vegetables and flowers - whatever grows!

[robertpina99]

When I was a child, I used to hope for finds like this. All I ever found was dirt. You have found some marvelous treasures. Keep digging.

[Eliseharris]

@robertpina99 I intend to! I want to see how big it is and whether I get any treasure!

[Steve7508]

I was hoping you'd uncover a human hand or a skull or some other creepy thing. not sure what that says about me.

[Eliseharris]

@Steve7508 well there is a way to go so it's still a possibility!

[Larkvall]

Awesome!! Make more videos like this! Now you can have a pond!

[Matrix8369]

I am interested in seeing what you have found once it is finished. Maybe you can start doing garden update segments in your videos? Showing your progress.

[MadBadVoodo]

I think you are right it's the hatch 2 Lost! LOL!!

5/5

[sinfulmoose]

:O! Can't believe you were able to dig up so much at once, I would've been knackered after the first 5 minutes! Looks really interesting though, hope you keep updating us as to what you find :}