This was one of the most random things that I have ever done. Im into History, live in a quirky old thatched place and love going out metal detecting.

 

My old school friend (in the pictures) is a real nutter, we do all sorts of random kind of "last of the summer wine" kind of stuff. Anyhows my mate wants to start a car clocking business, oops I mean milage correction business. He is a few grand short for the stuff so kept on asking me to excavate my old medievel well. I agreed one day for a bit of fun and boy was it a filthy messy weekend.

 

We hired a water pump, sucked all the water out and pumped it towards my **** of a next door neighbours garden lol. We then stuck a tripple extending ladder down there. I would say it was about 35-40 ft deep.

 

My friend played stinky sewer rat and waded in the stinky goo on his hands and knees excavating the bottom. He was bitten by a leech and screamed when he had seen an orange nute in there!.

 

Anyhows bucket by bucket I pulled the valuable goo out the well and poured it into a wheel barrow. Everytime that was full we took it to the edge of the woods and sifted it and ran a hose through it all. This stuff absolutely stank and stained your skin worse than a fake tan.

 

Over two days of dealing with this putrid scum from the bottom of the well we had finnished.

 

We found medieval pottery, old buckels, buttons, musket balls, glass, bullets, Animal bones, and an old whistle and really old marbles. We also found some coins but apart from about a quid in recent money only four old ones. None of them older than a few hundered years old.

 

In short the hire costs for the stuff was about £60, we found about £5 worth of stuff. But historically it was priceless. My Mrs went out all day both days as she got fed up with the mess.

 

That looks `well` good

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol: "Well" worth it to pump stinky shite on my neighbours land TBH.

Having studied to be an archaeologist I find that well cool. Shame you didn't find more. Wished I lived in a historically valuable accomodation.

Edited July 18, 201015 yr by pbryant_knight

thats really cool mate, my dad is mad about metal detecting so all the aforementioned finds make sense lol... fancy putting a picture up of your finds? If the buckles are medieval then they are worth a few bob.

Yes I will problem was I was so dirty by the end of the day I did not want to use the camera. Will take some pics and post them tmoz if I remember.

Reminder :lol:

lol put some pics of the finds.