Buried Celtic Tiger Treasure

johngalway

Have a friend who did a lot of carpentry work on various projects during the Celtic Tiger. He was telling me how on many, nearly all big jobs he was on, that if there were items left over that were surplus to requirements they'd either be skipped or buried on site. Just goes to show one more part of the madness that were those times.

He recovered, with permission from the site supervisors, full boxes of screws, door handles, plumbing supplies, and many other items. I know of one estate in Galway city where under a flower bed there was dozens of perfectly good buckets of paint discarded under perfectly good sheets of plywood. 50 meter electrical leads were thrown out because they didn't have a plug... ffs.

I know money was easy got in the building trade back then, but throwing away perfectly good material is grossly stupid. I'm sure some enterprising person could have made a few bob going around collecting and reselling this unwanted material. Probably some did knowing it was going on, I wish I had known :pac: Is it any wonder building materials were so expensive!

orourkeda

There are hoards of archaeologists whacking off as we type

AckwelFoley

the only thing i buried during the celtic tiger were my balls.

Deep into anything that would stay still long enough

J. Marston

I was getting my shovel ready when I read "treasure" but screws, paint and electrical wire? Nah, no thanks.

johngalway

snyper wrote: »

the only thing i buried during the celtic tiger were my balls.

Deep into anything that would stay still long enough

Doubt ya could resell them though, even on eGay :P

Son Of A Vidic

snyper wrote: »

the only thing i buried during the celtic tiger were my balls.

Deep into anything that would stay still long enough

Anything?..................At least human I hope?

AckwelFoley

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

Anything?..................At least human I hope?

..well, - some of them, their birth cert would declare them as human, but tbh, id like a second opinion

johngalway

J. Marston wrote: »

I was getting my shovel ready when I read "treasure" but screws, paint and electrical wire? Nah, no thanks.

Getting them before burial would have been the idea in fairness Get in with a few site supervisors, collect once a week, into a warehouse, post online and buyers collect, would have made a nice profit for little effort.

Jesus Wept

snyper wrote: »

the only thing i buried during the celtic tiger were my balls.

Deep into anything that would stay still long enough

You were doing it wrong.