Whats the oldest thing you've ever found?

Dolph Starbeam · 30-03-2011 04:03PM #1

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 · 30-03-2011 04:04PM

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

cruiser178 · 30-03-2011 04:05PM

can i say it,please let me say it.

Donal Og O Baelach · 30-03-2011 04:07PM

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

Korvanica · 30-03-2011 04:08PM

cruiser178 wrote: »

can i say it,please let me say it.

say it...

TanG411 · 30-03-2011 04:08PM

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 · 30-03-2011 04:09PM

A 17th century original hand coloured John Speed map.

abouttobebanned · 30-03-2011 04:09PM

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 · 30-03-2011 04:09PM

Korvanica wrote: »

say it...

YOR MA OP,YOR FREAKIN MA.

There i said it.

happyoutscan · 30-03-2011 04:10PM

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

sbsquarepants · 30-03-2011 04:12PM

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

hal9000 · 30-03-2011 04:12PM

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

Donal Og O Baelach · 30-03-2011 04:18PM

happyoutscan wrote: »

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

Too late

Duggy747 · 30-03-2011 04:24PM

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 · 30-03-2011 04:29PM

TheZohan wrote: »

A 17th century original hand coloured John Speed map.

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

ejmaztec · 30-03-2011 04:34PM

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

jackiebaron · 30-03-2011 04:44PM

The crust in my cacks.

Sprrratt · 30-03-2011 04:47PM

The ripped condom I should have called home...

brummytom · 30-03-2011 04:53PM

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 · 30-03-2011 05:05PM

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

LighterGuy · 30-03-2011 05:08PM

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. · 30-03-2011 05:12PM

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 · 30-03-2011 05:15PM

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 · 30-03-2011 05:17PM

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 · 30-03-2011 05:23PM

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 · 30-03-2011 05:28PM

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 · 30-03-2011 05:33PM

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 · 30-03-2011 05:33PM

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 · 30-03-2011 05:37PM

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 · 30-03-2011 05:40PM

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 · 30-03-2011 05:43PM

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.

Whats the oldest thing you've ever found?

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