Ever dug up hidden treasures?

[homegrown]

Been helping a mate put up a shed in his backyard and had to dig the holes to fit the posts. What we dug up was interesting, a very old truck transmission and a huge wrench that could've come of the truck and other old bits n pieces . also not long after travelling all the way to ballaclava an old couple told us they came across model T Ford parts. All buried under their bird cages. I could'nt beleive when they said they scrapped them at the metal yard because it was no good to them.
Although what we found was nothing special but has anyone else ever come across something buried in their back yard?

[Martys-Bionic-XR]

an old rusted revolver

[XR6_190]

Well I haven't dug anything up, but my old man is adamant there is a 23 year old bottle of Bollinger Champagne buried somewhere in our backyard. Apparently where he was working at the time (mid 1980s) the security was pretty slack, and he bought home 6 bottles. He later heard that the boss might be coming around so he buried them, only dug up 5 and couldn't find the 6th bottle, so it still must be buried down there somewhere.

[axeray]

I've only found some standard coins. Nothing special though.

[elgt146]

Previous owners to the farm house I purchased found jars of money buried.
Was a bit of a bikie hangout at one stage.

All old paper notes.

And as I said in a previous thred I know of an XR GT that is buried under someones shed.

[Gobes32]

I only read this in the newspaper, but it's hilarious anyway.

A young couple bought a new home from a desperate seller, once the deal was done the seller took off o'seas. A year later the young couple bought a new antenna and when the antenna guy got in the ceiling to do some wiring, he found 15kg of marijuana, with a street value of 50 grand..............

[kyro_02]

only dug up some marijuana :P

[Mr Hardware]

a penny and a couple of .22 shells.

[nugget378]

I hve found alot of very old bottles and crockery over the years, while renewing drainage in the inner city suburbs..

[BPXR6T]

Originally Posted by kyro_02

only dug up some marijuana :P

Reminds me of when I was a kid and we rented a secluded 180 acre bush property out the back of Myrtleford down by the rose river over the christmas break. Whilst exploring the property we came across an old rough camp complete with a rusty old generator and lots of wild marijuana. Wonder if the roos eat it...

Only two significant things I have dug out of the ground where a rusted handgun up near Avoca and a small chunk of gold up near Erica in Victoria.

[ehast13]

Back in the 50's my grandfather had two 1932 plymouth tourers. They were very rare (even the plymouth clubs today say they only know of one in AUS) because not many were imported due to the depression. In 1953, Grandad cought a new anniversary model customline. He couldn't sell one of the plymouths, so he and dad dismantled them, packed the mechanicals in grease and buried them in the backyard. The front mudguards ended up on a homemade trailer. The seats became benches under the house and the rest of the body became a hotrod.


The engine, gearbox (including vacuum clutch) are still in the backyard under what is now a row of macadamia nut trees.

[Scott]

^^ Why?

[XR6_190]

Originally Posted by elgt146

And as I said in a previous thred I know of an XR GT that is buried under someones shed.

Why oh why would anybody do this, absolute craziness!

[uranium_death]

I once put my thumb in a Christmas pie, and pulled out a plum.

[GK351]

Not really treasure,
A couple of funnel webs in yagoona, never jumped out of a trench that quickly in my life before. We doused blue solvent cement on them and lit the ferals.

A rusted antique looking gun smirnoff or somthing like that in sandy maroubra.

Excavating in a public area in sutherland about 2 years ago
i dug up a uniroyal wildcat the tyres that come on VC HDT brocks and XD XE ESP's. It was just when i purchased my ESP so it was pretty exciting.

Its what you find under old 1 owner houses with their period features thats
more mind boggling but i wont get into that in here.

[Daymoe]

My estate was built on an old potato farm, I don't think we'll find anything interesting here.

[redxm]

rocks, lots of them

[Bucknaked]

Not treasure, but in an old house we live in years ago, when we pulled up the carpets, underneath the underlay we found old news papers from the 60's laid out flat. Most of it was still in reasonable condition and it was interesting reading what was in the papers from 30 or so years earlier.

[XR Martin]

Probably got at least a 5L Tin full of old bits of broken crockery, bottles and jars that ive dug up in parts of the yard. I reckon they date from the late 1800s to 1950s. Also found some very rusty basic tools (like spanners, levers, bars etc) and an old crowbar. Plenty of bits of wire, bolts, nails and coins.

[Laminge]

Years ago when I worked in a branch we had a young couple come in after they started digging up a place they purchased in carlton with over $30k in old currency that was buried, by the time we sent it off for a claim because the notes where so damaged they only got back $2k

[DoreSlamR]

Not found by myself but a construction site I worked on briefly got shut down due to them finding several old WW2 Grenades.

[Silver Ghia]

I heard many years ago when I was young, from a friend of my mother who had lived in Doncaster Vic, that quite a number of T model Fords were dumped in a dam in an apple orchard there by the owner, presume around the '30's. She said thats what they did with those old cars back then. Always wondered what came of them when the land was subdivided, but they were probably all rusted to almost nothing, most probably the dam was just filled in.

[ehast13]

I don't know how much still exists but...

My greatgrandfather was a thief. Back in the 30'/40's or something, he knocked off a buttload of stuff from Wormald Bros. The story goes that it was a flat bed truck loaded with stuff. The local tuffs (The Carey Boys) wanted in but he said no to them. They threated to go to the police so he told them to shove it and used his drag line to make a hole and buried the lot. When the cops turned up they asked him where the stuff was and he replied 'ya standin on it'. They left, either not being bothered to check, or not beleiving him.

He dug it and sold what he could. What he couldn't sell, he stuck back in the hole.

Every time I hear the story, it gets better. Last time I heard it, we were up to about 6 trucks loaded with stolen goods.

Still, This was a guy that was dishonourably discharged from the french foreign legion. Australian Army and U.S navy. Never met him but nothing would surprise me.


As for the grandfather burying the plymouth. I went over to his old house today (still family owned) and hammered a 4 foot steel spike down under the macadamia trees to see if hit anything. I hit something but it may have just been a big rock. I doubt it would be worth diggin it up to check. It was about three feet down (and I was having enough trouble pulling the spike out each time) and therefore goes in the 'too hard' basket.

[XA_GT351]

Not buried, but my brother found a 1920 salvation army Almanac, a poster size calendar with a picture of a swagman, in a wall cavity in a building, in very good condition. my dad and older brother do demolition for a living, they find old stuff all the time.

[onfire]

30, 40 odd old bottles circa the turn of the 20th century, when my parents built a house on a block that once was the home of the area's general store and liquor store.

[Mallan]

My mate became a plumber after doing a pre-app at the start of last year he is about to start his second year next month, any way the company he works for does contracting for the Austin Hopsital in melbourne. in the basement when re doing the bath rooms they have found:

Old Chemical Gas mask (which now resides in there smoko room)

Jars containing organ's and other human parts

The weridest thing to find in a hospital.... a box of porn..... (yes its in the smoko room now)

Strange Doctors...... :

[XR6_661]

A box of porn and human organs....Weirdos =P

I haven't found anything. But apprently when my parents sold our house/property in tassie, the new owners were digging out my mums award winning rose garden, and during the course of this they dug up an old tin, filled with some old currency. Was apprently good for 15k.

No sure if it's true though, if it was, mum would have found it before, she was always digging up that garden.

Apart from that, lived for a year in Kadina, SA, I was 11, used to do digging and find a fair bit of old mining gear, Picks, etc.

[b2tf]

Not really 'dug up' as such but youd be amazed at how much porn you find in houses when you're doing pest inspections. The roof cavity of defence houses is always a good one - found at least 20 mags and some DVDs in one once, Id say the movers turned up and sarge freaked and had to hide it, then forgot about it.

[jcxr]

Mate of mine was doing demolition work in the late 80's, and found a lovely looking old floral patterned tin. When he opened it , it was jammed chockers with 2o pound notes, enough to saddly buy a brand new Holden 186 Premier.Also know of some people doing up a house in Eltham that had been the local shonky doctor that was also an illegal abortionist. Whilst renovating the laundry area of the old house they found a skeleton encased in the wall cavity. Very hasty bog up, told no one and sold the property soon after. Still there as far as I know.

[XHUTE6]

When my parents were renovating their house about 6 years ago, We were having an old extension knocked down and a new extension put up. Whilst ripping up the concrete they found a hole. They dug the dirt out and it was an old Cellar with a fireplace. We restored the cellar and now it holds Mums homemade Jam and bottles of Wine.