Monday 11 April 2011

Treasure Trove?

It's not uncommon, in my area, to find stone-age implements; arrow heads, axe heads, scrapers, etc. So seeing that my neighbour, Laurence, had just been doing some serious ploughing, I did a bit of 'field-walking' to see if she'd turned-up any treasures.

What I wasn't expecting to find was the above. I imagine it's the speedometer from a Massey Ferguson tractor. The only questions are, which one, when did it fall off, and has she noticed that it's missing? It looks quite new.

I shall pop up to see her some time, and I'll let you know!

8 comments:

  1. can you keep the things that you find? That's more fun than looking for Easter eggs!

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  2. There's no problem keeping stone age finds; they're very common. A stash of gold coins might be a different matter. I'm still looking for those!

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  3. Either it's brand new, or it's gone round the clock - which would be unlikely. It's an engine running time meter, and looks to me as though it's only registered 0.2 of an hour. I am not suggesting it was thrown away so that the true mileage of the tractor would not show up when she comes to sell it, however....

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  4. Not really what you were looking for...but...interesting none the less. I remember one year helping dad clear stone from a field and he found several arrow heads. Found treaure. Gotta love it. Do you have a metal detector?

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  5. I called it a 'speedo' as it seemed too long-winded to explain about tractors and 'hours'. But of course that's exactly what it is. Why it's still at zero remains one of the mysteries of this century.

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  6. 'Mystery'? So you don't go along with my theory that it was (allegedly) deliberately ripped off when the tractor was delivered from the factory?

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  7. Sometimes reading everyones comments before me is as entertaining as reading the post itself! Lol When my sister and I were kids we had an old graveyard within bike riding distance. We found many treasure there, mainly Indianhead pennies. I wish I'd kept them. We sold a whole three folder coin collection for $3! It seemed like a fortune at the time!

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  8. I love buried treasure, ancient, or not.

    I also love "Dali's sofa" and traded it for "pink bow tie". You're brilliant, Cro.

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