Dug Up Strange Coloured Lump In The Garden

[shepp 2,285]

I wondered if anybody might know what this material is, just a small easy to break lump about the size of a dried apricot.

It came with some well worked top soil from a Victorian Garden?

[J Darcy 5,871]

A big dollop of solidified printing ink?

[pesky1972 5,655]

Pure guess but..., it looks the colour of iron sulphate to me. Could it be a lump of fertiliser?

[shepp 2,285]

I was wondering if it was a slowly oxidised metal, I wonder if copper could go this colour when buried for many decades?

[Hareydave 1,214]

Victorian turd

[mackem 29,785]

I was wondering if it was a slowly oxidised metal, I wonder if copper could go this colour when buried for many decades?

Copper does take on a green patina over time its called verdigris.

[nothernlite 18,260]

Cooper

[Fieldsporthunter 1,864]

Alien shit???

[marshman 7,758]

What you found is purest green

[mule123 112]

kryptonite

[bunny tickler 876]

bat sperm

[rodp 316]

What you found is purest green

This is what it is. When your grass goes white in a hot summer what happens is the "green" goes down into the ground, stops it getting sunburnt. What's happened here is while the green was hiding away from the sun someone's dug the grass up, so the green couldn't go back.

It was quite common in Victorian times when food was so scarce folk had to eat white grass.

Used to happen with dog turds as well, the brown would hide underground. You don't see so many white dog turds nowadays because with all the immigrants the brown doesn't feel so out of place.

 

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[shepp 2,285]

Cheers, that's cleared that one up then.

[marshman 7,758]

 

 

What you found is purest green

This is what it is. When your grass goes white in a hot summer what happens is the "green" goes down into the ground, stops it getting sunburnt. What's happened here is while the green was hiding away from the sun someone's dug the grass up, so the green couldn't go back.

It was quite common in Victorian times when food was so scarce folk had to eat white grass.

Used to happen with dog turds as well, the brown would hide underground. You don't see so many white dog turds nowadays because with all the immigrants the brown doesn't feel so out of place.

 

There's no charge for this important public announcement !

nope what he's got there is a nugget of purest green . Edited March 15, 2015 by marshman

[Qbgrey 4,368]

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