Guest Ditch_Shitter Posted June 24, 2008 Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 Ok, now I live in a deeply rural, isolated family farm cottage in Co. Leitrim. I know for a fact that this place is at least a century old. Maybe two. The hedges around the paddock below me are still littered with abandoned, horse drawn farming equipment. I'm used to all that. But this has me stumped and curious. I've just been rooting about in the upper reaches of my ditch. It's like a set for a Viet Nam film in there. Tall, mossy trees. Ferns. Darkness and an air of no one ever really goes there. I haven't been there myself since last summer. I'd gone in there to pick up something I'd deliberately left there. Whilst I was at it, I had a peer round for birds nests that I might record for the BTO. I guess it was a combination of being in Search For Minutae mode and the fact that I was struggling to force my way back out on an unused bearing that allowed me to spot, quite by chance, this object. I'm sorry I never thought to place my Zippo by it, for a size guage. But there's a Hawthorn leaf clearly visible to its left, in both shots. It's about the size of a chunky, old fashioned pint glass. The 'lid' is stuck fast. So is the object itself. Wether that's just the ground gripping it, or wether it's actually some sort of pipe and going deeper? I don't know. I ran my hand round behind it. No apparrent handle. I'd at first just assumed it was an old, lidded saucepan. Then I thought maybe a lidded stink pipe from an early sceptic tank. But my 'Ditch Outhouse' shows we never had any sceptic tanks here. Now I really don't have a clue. And I left it that way because I had nothing to dig with and was trying to get on with something more pressing. I only just thought to grab some record shots of it. Here they are. What do ye make of it, plase? I'm not suggesting it's anything out of the ordinary. Probably just got left and lost up there. Now I've found it and it's doing my f*cking head in! WTF is that? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Ditch_Shitter Posted June 24, 2008 Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 F*cking hell! I wish ye hadn't said that! :sick: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
doga 50 Posted June 24, 2008 Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 i know what it is ditch but seens how its just for older irish lads then they can tell ya. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
killemall 1 Posted June 24, 2008 Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 Is it an old spit or p*ss bucket by any chance you know the type left by the side of the bed ...... Could well be an earn tho Terrier man Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SEAN3513 7 Posted June 24, 2008 Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 looks like a former resident wanted to be remebered under a favourite tree !!!! is the top meant to be loose ditch???? or has someone buried a cannon......and just left the last 8" sticking up???? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cúagusgiorraí 57 Posted June 24, 2008 Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 Hey Ditch, What material is it made of? clay? iron? ................ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rolfe 2 Posted June 24, 2008 Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 Looks similar to the finial on the top of ornamental wrought iron railings.........could have a length of rail still attached hence it is fixed to the ground.........just a guess though. You simply must investigate further Ditch.........although don't go hitting it with a hammer just in case it is a very well diguised second world war bomb. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Ditch_Shitter Posted June 24, 2008 Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 And, just as I came back here and reopened this Thread, so Noel turned up! Sadly, I couldn't bring him in here to see the shots - Dogs would'nt be too impressed with 'an intruder'! - and I'd wiped the shots from my camera. No way could I drag him up into that jungle either, so I described it. I also mentioned ashes ..... As Noel, a Deeply RC man, like 99% around here, pointed out; " There'd be No Cremations going on for Miles around here! ( F*ck! I'm So ignorant of these things!) No, he seems quite happy that it'll be a pot. Just a cooking pot. Says it'd probably got left out there and the ground has indeed 'grown' around it. I'll still have to get back in there and dig it out though. I'm fasinated. Anyway, just as an aside; He'd come to ask me if I had a Magpie Trap. Seems they've been waking his wife up in the mornings with their chattering. He reckons they're bringing the whole brood to around his property. Bit embarressing really; I'm supposed to take care of such matters for Noel and Pat on an on going basis. Being lame has kept me from getting out for ages now. Couldn't carry a rifle when I might collapse at any moment! But he's coming down to get me, and the Larsen, at the weekend. I'll have the b*stards! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
speedlamper 0 Posted June 24, 2008 Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 its obvious what it is its a wee leprechauns crock of gold Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cúagusgiorraí 57 Posted June 24, 2008 Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 Perhaps it is butter? I have heard that it was stored in the ground.......... What about tabacca? I think the things are called humodores? But its probably an old moldy pot. It could be of interest to the country life musuem in Turlough, Mayo. They find those sort of artifacts very interesting. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
wetdogsmell 99 Posted June 24, 2008 Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 its hitlers hurling helmet. 1944 connaught hurling final; letrim 1/08 luftwaffer 2/11 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Ditch_Shitter Posted June 24, 2008 Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 But its probably an old moldy pot. It could be of interest to the country life musuem in Turlough, Mayo. They find those sort of artifacts very interesting. Really? Well, what ever it is, it's obviously of the last generation and of no use to me. Let's wait till I get time to properly excavate it. If it's still in any sort of condition, underneath there, I'll get some shots up. If it's anything a museum may like, they'll be most welcome to it. Though I suspect they'd likely have plenty of such things already. Must say, I'm itching to get back out there and scratch it up right now. But I'm on my second pint here, about to put my dinner on and it's getting less light outside. Down in that part of the ditch it'd be dark as hell now. Give it a day or two and I'll get back to it Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cúagusgiorraí 57 Posted June 24, 2008 Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 But its probably an old moldy pot. It could be of interest to the country life musuem in Turlough, Mayo. They find those sort of artifacts very interesting. Really? Well, what ever it is, it's obviously of the last generation and of no use to me. Let's wait till I get time to properly excavate it. If it's still in any sort of condition, underneath there, I'll get some shots up. If it's anything a museum may like, they'll be most welcome to it. Though I suspect they'd likely have plenty of such things already. Must say, I'm itching to get back out there and scratch it up right now. But I'm on my second pint here, about to put my dinner on and it's getting less light outside. Down in that part of the ditch it'd be dark as hell now. Give it a day or two and I'll get back to it Looking forward to it. It looks in good condition whatever it is. Do you ever find old glass bottles? I have found some nearly 150 years old around my way, intact. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BlueCoyote 0 Posted June 25, 2008 Report Share Posted June 25, 2008 But its probably an old moldy pot. It could be of interest to the country life musuem in Turlough, Mayo. They find those sort of artifacts very interesting. Really? Well, what ever it is, it's obviously of the last generation and of no use to me. Let's wait till I get time to properly excavate it. If it's still in any sort of condition, underneath there, I'll get some shots up. If it's anything a museum may like, they'll be most welcome to it. Though I suspect they'd likely have plenty of such things already. Must say, I'm itching to get back out there and scratch it up right now. But I'm on my second pint here, about to put my dinner on and it's getting less light outside. Down in that part of the ditch it'd be dark as hell now. Give it a day or two and I'll get back to it you're killing me!! as i'm reading this i'm sitting here thinking i wish i lived there just so i could explore through those hedges and see what i could find..... but i'm weird like that lol my home site isnt nearly as old as yours but i still get a thrill while out walking the dogs in the woods, down the road, or just digging through the old barns and sheds. in fact today i found the bottom jaw of some sort of strange critter (i'll post later if i can find batteries for the camera) i've found pieces of glass thicker than my fist - still havent figured that one out- found a five pound weight for.. a tractor i think... and a freakin heavy ornamental metal thing that was in my back yard.. looks chrome plated.. and i found the wheel to a 1940's(maybe 50's?) dodge truck... almost whacked it with the mower half of it was buried and the rest was covered in leaves. so yeah.... hurry up and go look! lol hell, if i had the money, time, and courage i would fly over and go look at it for you! ....probably never see me again either in a place like that Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Ditch_Shitter Posted June 26, 2008 Report Share Posted June 26, 2008 Remember this? Well, I'm back out there right now and it's getting weird! This damn thing's no cooking pot. It's a plastic pipe with a cast iron pot lid jamned on top! The pipe's buried vertically in the gound and is now completely gripped by a massed web of tree roots. I'm down about eight inches on one side of it and, while I can shudder it a bit, it's showing no sighns of freeing up yet. I'm about to select me some better tools and get back out there. WTF is going on here, people??? WHY would someone take the trouble of sinking a length of c. 4 - 5 " diamater sewer pipe into the ground, 'in the middle of nowhere' beside a ditch on their ground? Makes me think of only two things. Well, one; A cache. It's the one of two things that they might have put in there that I find slightly disturbing! That pipe might have been there a couple of decades now. This is Co. Leitrim. We're not a million miles from the border ..... Gulp! I do So hope it's empty. Or just full of Irish Punts. I don't Want to find anything else in there! Forgive me but; Ye know what I'm saying I'll be back. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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