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Found a Roman coin in my garden last week and it changed how I see yard work
I was digging up an old rose bush in my backyard near Bath when my trowel hit something hard and metallic, turned out to be a 3rd century bronze coin, maybe from a lost settlement. My neighbor Margaret, who's 78 and grew up here, just laughed and said her dad used to find them all the time while planting potatoes in the 1940s. Has anyone else ever turned up unexpected artifacts while doing normal landscaping projects?
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robin_wright4d ago
Oh man, I can barely find a matching sock in my laundry let alone an ancient coin... Good for you though, that's brilliant. My gardening efforts usually turn up broken bits of plastic and the bones of some poor animal my cat killed years ago. Honestly if I found a Roman coin I'd probably think it was a bottle cap and chuck it in the bin. Your neighbour Margaret sounds like a legend by the way... imagine growing up just casually digging up history while planting spuds.
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alice2424d ago
Right? Found a Roman brooch once and nearly threw it in the compost heap.
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