Whats the oldest thing you've ever found?

Dolph Starbeam

Was just searching around for something at home and found this -

http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff87/mog7/30032011.jpg

It's a 284 ml Bottle of Guinness, best before FEB '87

Wonder are they worth anything?

starbelgrade

Does waking up in the morning and finding an OAP in your bed count?

cruiser178

can i say it,please let me say it.

Donal Og O Baelach

I found Jesus a few years back. Lost him again now though.

Korvanica

cruiser178 wrote: »

can i say it,please let me say it.

say it...

TanG411

I found a CMP milk bottle dated 1981 when digging for pipes once. I forget where its gone now, but it was very dirty.

TheZohanS

A 17th century original hand coloured John Speed map.

abouttobebanned

He wants to say your ma.

Pulling up some carpet in an old house i found some newspapers from the 50s which was pretty cool

cruiser178

Korvanica wrote: »

say it...

YOR MA OP,YOR FREAKIN MA.


There i said it.

happyoutscan

I'm an archaeologist so I can bore you, but I won't.

sbsquarepants

I found a stone on the beach - looked at least a couple of million years old:)

hal9000

some rocks, i guess
sorry on closer inspection they were those glade spray rocks made in dec-10

Donal Og O Baelach

happyoutscan wrote: »

I'm an archaeologist so I can bore you, but I won't.

Too late

Duggy747

Got around to cleaning the family shed where I found a box full of Beano and Dandy comics going back to 1980. The humour was a hell of a lot better and inventive than the ones I got.

In the old closed down cinema we used to always hang about in it. One day I was up in the projecter room and I decided to go searching about it where I found a perfect condition Midnight Express reel sitting on the table. It was during lunch at school and I said to myself "I'm so taking this home with me". Forgot to do so and later that night some little scumbag set fire to the cinema and it burnt down

As a kid me and a friend ventured into the old Protestant graveyard (very old graves in it) in my town and came across a stone tomb which had the lid of it split open. Looked through the crack and you could see a brown skeleton The thing was ancient and dated back at least 150 - 200 years. It's been sealed up since but it was an awesome find as a kid.

boneless

TheZohan wrote: »

A 17th century original hand coloured John Speed map.

Are you serious? I would love to see that!!!

ejmaztec

I found one of Brendan O'Carroll's jokes etched on a stone that was buried underneath a pyramid.

jackiebaron

The crust in my cacks.

Sprrratt

The ripped condom I should have called home...

brummytom

Last house I lived in was built in 1840 I think - that's fairly old.


And we found a German Reichmark with a bullethole in from around 1940-ish, among my nan's photos. And we've an amazing, ornate family bible from about 1815

phill106

found an american penny from 1879. Not much to look at, it has a buffalo on one side.

LighterGuy

Found, and still have, a British penny from 1875.

its freaky to think how many people held it, spent it, where it went too... and all those people are dead :eek:

Uriel.

When did u find it?

It ery conceivable that Plenty of people who may have possessed it previously are still alive. Unless you found it in excess of 100 years ago?

El_Paolo

Me and a friend found a grenade buried in his garden a few years ago :eek: No idea how old it was, but it looked pretty damn old :pac:

phill106

El_Paolo wrote: »

Me and a friend found a grenade buried in his garden a few years ago :eek: No idea how old it was, but it looked pretty damn old :pac:

and the rest of the story please.......



Did you have to call in bruno mars?

LighterGuy

Uriel. wrote: »

When did u find it?

It ery conceivable that Plenty of people who may have possessed it previously are still alive. Unless you found it in excess of 100 years ago?

well my dad found it in an old persons home who passed on. It was just lying in a jar of coins.
The british made so many coins over the years. So for arguments sake that coin would of been taken out of circulation in the early 1900's ... Lets even say by 1925. Thats 50 years it went around... and how many people are alive from 1925?

Im sure some people who held the coin are alive over the years since it was being stored/kept. But anyone who spent the coin is well gone.

El_Paolo

phill106 wrote: »

and the rest of the story please.......



Did you have to call in bruno mars?

I dunno what he did with it, we were only in National School when we found it so his parents probably took it off him. I'll ask him next time I see him if he still has it.

And no, Bruno Mars wasn't required.

The Gnome

Two books from the 18th century and a copy of the 1843 Irish census results dumped in a skip outside a HSE library... yoink.

Lots of lunatics around back then apparently.

Professey Chin

Found an old pocketwatch I think was my great great grandfathers. Bout 1900 anyway. Bit broken though. Keep meaning to get it restored

2 waterbottles on my desk

I found an old Irish handwritten passport on the street - on a night out in dublin it now sits on my book case - am not sure if I should tell anyone about it (Gardá) as I fear they may make me give it to them

LighterGuy

2 waterbottles on my desk wrote: »

I found an old Irish handwritten passport on the street - on a night out in dublin it now sits on my book case - am not sure if I should tell anyone about it (Gardá) as I fear they may make me give it to them

Cool.
how old we talking?

just looked at old irish passports into google. does it look like this

bijapos

El_Paolo wrote: »

Me and a friend found a grenade buried in his garden a few years ago :eek: No idea how old it was, but it looked pretty damn old :pac:

There is a ring at the top of the grenade, pull this out and the date is on the little pin attached to the ring. Hold the grenade between your legs while you read the date.

2 waterbottles on my desk

LighterGuy wrote: »

Cool.
how old we talking?

just looked at old irish passports into google. does it look like this

Can't remember exact date will have to check when I get home but yes it looks like that except the picture was cut out unfortunatley

reverenddave

i was doing some roof renovations in the naval base in haulbowline a few years ago
and underneath some of the rafters i found some magazines from when the building was built in 1907 and also a national geographic from i think it was june or july 1906

also a few roman coins when i was working in kinsale re doing a floor and the coins were nicely placed there in a ceramic jam jar from the late 1700's when the house was built

Agricola

bijapos wrote: »

There is a ring at the top of the grenade, pull this out and the date is on the little pin attached to the ring. Hold the grenade between your legs while you read the date.

Like FDISK - but abit more painful

Agricola

reverenddave wrote: »

also a few roman coins when i was working in kinsale re doing a floor and the coins were nicely placed there in a ceramic jam jar from the late 1700's when the house was built

For a second I thought you meant you'd found evidence of a Roman presence in Ireland!

reverenddave

Agricola wrote: »

For a second I thought you meant you'd found evidence of a Roman presence in Ireland!

HA no afraid not

jessiesmom

found an old ration book from my great nans, and an old cookbook she wrote using a copybook, my dad found a coin once and thought it was a john de courcy but als it wasnt

My mother was doing some work on the garden when she unearthed a coin from 1903, my aunt was looking through my granduncle's stuff after his death and discovered some diaries his uncle had written during the Boer War back in 1900 - absolutely fascinating stuff.

donutface

Deleted User wrote: »

My mother was doing some work on the garden when she unearthed a coin from 1903, my aunt was looking through my granduncle's stuff after his death and discovered some diaries his uncle had written during the Boer War back in 1900 - absolutely fascinating stuff.

You should really scan them and put them online - I'd love to read about the other side

UglyBolloxFace

LighterGuy wrote: »

Cool.
how old we talking?

just looked at old irish passports into google. does it look like this

Something that caught my eye in that photo of the passport, as with modern-day ones also - how come French is one of the languages that the passport is printed in? I could understand Spanish seeing as a lot of the world speaks that but why French?

Xivilai

My mom has a 109 year old legal document thats in perfect condition.

el oh el

Was hiking in the middle east and people we met told us about a cave that had been inhabited in the stone age, went to investigate and found some flint knives... So id say at least 6,000 years old

Brenireland

An old pair of boxers dating back to the 29/03/2011,skid mark/2 but aside from that in perfect condition,not sure if their worth anything do.

Xivilai

el oh el wrote: »

Was hiking in the middle east and people we met told us about a cave that had been inhabited in the stone age, went to investigate and found some flint knives... So id say at least 6,000 years old

What were you doing in my Stab Cave :mad:

oppenheimer1

UglyBolloxFace wrote: »

Something that caught my eye in that photo of the passport, as with modern-day ones also - how come French is one of the languages that the passport is printed in? I could understand Spanish seeing as a lot of the world speaks that but why French?

French was/is the traditional language of diplomacy.

castletownman

We've an old (inactive) grenade at home, dates back to World War 2. My grandad also had an original All-Ireland hurling medal that his uncle won in 1910, has been mis-placed since unfortunately

Latchy

Two things spring to mind

1. I found a small bronz medal a few years ago with an image of barbed wire on one side and the inscription 'Auswitch' on the other . I left in in old old tin box with some old coins which I think is now in my mothers house .


2. About 12 years ago I was up in Wales with some friends on a beach during a warm summer evening when the tide washed up what looked like a laminated page .So on closer inspection I noticed it was one of those river maps with directions for race competitors to navigate their Kayacks .Thing was the two mile long map with name places circled was the exact same places near Chapelizod I used to play for hrs on end as a kid ...and it washed up to me on a beach in Wales

JENNYWREN19

happyoutscan wrote: »

I'm an archaeologist so I can bore you, but I won't.

I'm a geologist , top that

UglyBolloxFace

JENNYWREN19 wrote: »

I'm a geologist , top that

Well it looks like happyoutscan is......

***Puts on glasses***

Stuck between a rock and a hard place


YEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

TheZohanS

boneless wrote: »

Are you serious? I would love to see that!!!

Yup, totally serious. It was collecting dust so I got in contact with a few map dealers in the UK and found out some of it's history. It's the genuine article, it's great(and rare) to have something so old in such fantastic condition. The guys in the UK were over the moon that it existed today.

Agricola

JENNYWREN19 wrote: »

I'm a geologist , top that

Im a gynecologist :cool: