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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

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

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).

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

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

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

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.

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

I go through there on my way to work often

Quote from: Holly on October 25, 2018, 06:12:26 PM
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 

very idyllic up that way 

especially when you were a kid Jim 

Quote from: Holly on October 25, 2018, 07:19:18 PM
very idyllic up that way 

well at the age of ten I loved it 

Quote from: Jim Webster on October 25, 2018, 07:20:34 PM

Quote from: Holly on October 25, 2018, 07:19:18 PM
very idyllic up that way 

well at the age of ten I loved it 

and travelling by horse and cart must have been fun 

Quote from: Holly on October 25, 2018, 08:43:27 PM

Quote from: Jim Webster on October 25, 2018, 07:20:34 PM

Quote from: Holly on October 25, 2018, 07:19:18 PM
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