"lannerman" wrote in message
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Kathy;946229 Wrote:
See what you can find when you garden!

'BBC News - Sweden: Wedding ring 'found on carrot' after 16
years' (http://tinyurl.com/7rtzy6w)

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Kathy

Whilst building a rockery at a garden centre in Somerset I found what I
thought was the fossil of some very exciting creature (or part of one) I
rushed up to Bristol museum only to be very disappointed to learn it was
the fossil of a rare coral called Paleosmilia murchisonia and was 400
million years old and that they had lost their only specimen during the
blitz, as far as I know, its still on display
Lannerman.




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lannerman

That is very interesting indeed.

No gardening, but when I was younger I was a member of our local Sub-Aqua
club and we undertook to do a survey of he lake at Margam Abbey. It was
thought that perhaps the monks had dumped some of their valuables in the old
mill-pond in the lake, in Henry VIII's days.

I had the opportunity to take a new diver on an open water dive there and we
progressed to an area of undisturbed water. There poking out of the
mud/silt was what looked like the rim of an amphora or large jug. I reached
for it and when I grabbed it I got a bit of a shock it was no jug, but an
eel..

It slithered through my hand and I shot to the surface !

Bill