Holgate Garden Archaeology Project

A friend and neighbour has kindly shared what she and her husband unearthed six doors down.

When digging a flat area in the garden, they came across 46 of the bottles photographed below. Their detective skills and research has show they were possibly water/gin bottles of German origin made from 1700s to the beginning of the 20th century.

Why 46 gin bottles in their garden?? Although a party pad it may have been (for it remains that way), the more likely story they think, is that the area was used for livestock and the bottles created a rise in ground temperature.

I wonder if anything similar lurks in our pit?

Thank you Catriona for sharing your finds.