What have you found during your pond digs?

[Mmathis]

@Ax01 I am jealous of folks who dig up rocks in their yards! Here in Louisiana, we have to buy our rocks

 

[Andrew]

Unfortunately, the neighbor's cable/internet line. I even had the utilities marked before I started, but they didn't label that.

Then I moved my site and found a DIFFERENT neighbor's line. Also unmarked. Thankfully I only had to move about a foot that time.

 

[GBBUDD]

20'S Or 30's tea pot whiskey bottles,aspirin bottles, beer bottles . cans more beer bottles ashes from the burning of the debris from building the house

 

[texastkc]

It started off finding bits of clay pipe, which eventually turned out to be an abandoned collapsed pipe. Then it was a stop sign. Under the stop sign was an old dry well. It appears they used a barrel to form the concrete dry well as you can see the slats of the barrel. We turned it into a place for a trashcan filter/skimmer.

 

[Phaewryn]

I didn't take any pics, but my pond is located in a location where a previous tenant burnt their trash, including unwanted kitchen utensils, apparently, from the number of half burnt plastic spoons, spatulas, and tongs I found, along with massive quantities of broken glass, remnants of plastic wrappers, and the requisite rocks (it's Vermont, you can't just dig a hole with a shovel, you have to get out a pickax).

 

[JamieB]

Toads, plenty of toads. Various bits of old trash. Nothing too interesting. I had hoped for some rocks, anything of real interest, but no.

 

[BarbO]

Since we live near a lot of Civil War battle sites, I had hope to dig up a belt buckle or button or some other artifact. But nothing other than roots, some which were hard to get out. Not even a pebble or rock. All this part of the US was under the Atlantic ocean long ago.

 

[AlyssaFish]

Toads, plenty of toads. Various bits of old trash. Nothing too interesting. I had hoped for some rocks, anything of real interest, but no.

I am guessing you didn't dig up the toads. They were just about. Right?

 

[JamieB]

No, as we were digging, toads came out. It was the start of fall, and I presume we disturbed a whole lot of toad homes for winter.

 

[Shell-Fish]

I found this the other day and whilst attaching to a wooden rod and sticking it in the ground, a bright light beamed from it like it was pointing me to something......

Happy Friday everyone.

 

[Jhn]

Only thing I found in my pond dig was huge chunks of sand/iron stone. Glad I was using equipment to dig the pond, otherwise it wouldn’t have been finished.

 

[Mamaturtle]

First, I found concrete blocks painted bright blue in my pond dig Don’t know what it was maybe a previous pond. I had heard of an alligator pond at one time. Then I found a dog skeleton head & then another. It got really creepy.

 

[HARO]

We're situated on a terminal moraine. I dug up more rocks than would have fit back in the hole! Every kind immaginable, from soft chalk (in several colours) to sandstone, granite, slate, quartz..... you name it, it was there!
John

 

[Mmathis]

We're situated on a terminal moraine. I dug up more rocks than would have fit back in the hole! Every kind immaginable, from soft chalk (in several colours) to sandstone, granite, slate, quartz..... you name it, it was there!
John

Cool! Any fossils?

 

[Nina Rose]

Hi, newbie to forum here, and I am located in Central Queensland, Australia.
We didn't find anything while digging this pond in, as its just a small raised rock pond, ( hopefully to deter cane toads) but where we lived before which was 10 acres, on a mountain in semi rain forest, we dug out a huge pond where there was a natural waterfall when it rained.
We found a lot of petrified tree trunk sections and a rock with a fossilised fern on it, and big lumps of fools gold.