Viking ship burial found by radar

[Imperial Dave]

really interesting stuff Jim. Its a bit like round where I live. We have a Roman road section right outside the house with a few associated finds dotted around. I've been meaning to do something like yours for a while now

[Patrick Waterson]

Yes, it sounds as if both Dave and Jim could be sitting on a few finds.

[Imperial Dave]

I've even found stuff in the back garden.....some of it relatively recent (a clay pipe) and some old (pottery and an iron bloom).

[Jim Webster]

Yes the house itself is pre-1600 and there are all sorts of minor mysteries
Such as why was there a Medlar tree in a hedge? It's died since, but it was a long way from any house so was unlikely to be part of a garden/orchard, but you just don't get Medlars up here

[Imperial Dave]

blimey, that is interesting Jim. A bit like us with our wild hop and grape vines growing in the hedgerows on a south facing slope

[Jim Webster]

It raises questions :-)
My mother went to Hereford Teacher Training college after the war, but she denied planting it

[Erpingham]

According to wikipedia, Medlars are short lived - 30-50 years - which should help narrow it down.  Though I don't know how well they self seed so far north.

[Jim Webster]

It might have been one of my mother's college friends who did it, a lot of them were from the Bromyard, Hereford area
A bit to ask them as well

[Imperial Dave]

I go through there on my way to work often

[Jim Webster]

I go through there on my way to work often

As a child I was down there on holiday most years, the friends tended to dump their kids on each other for summer 

[Imperial Dave]

very idyllic up that way 

[Imperial Dave]

especially when you were a kid Jim 

[Jim Webster]

very idyllic up that way 

well at the age of ten I loved it 

[Imperial Dave]

very idyllic up that way 

well at the age of ten I loved it 

and travelling by horse and cart must have been fun 

[Jim Webster]

very idyllic up that way 

well at the age of ten I loved it 

and travelling by horse and cart must have been fun 

we were that poor we'd eaten the horse