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After some detective work, he managed to discover the name of the owner: Private William Smellie Hogg.
In 1984, British community police officer Pete Carson discovered a World War I medal while cleaning a well at Inverness Castle, in Scotland.
In 2011, workers on a construction site in Suzhou, China discovered some 200,000 ancient coins in the bottom of a well.
The coins are believed to have belonged to a wealthy family. It's estimated that the coins date back to the Song dynasty (960-1279 CE).
It is estimated that the structure was part of an underground drinking water system dating back to the 1300s.
While cleaning up ancient garbage in a well in Bidar, India, a group of workers discovered a 10-foot-tall (3 m) arched doorway at the bottom.
In 2010, a stone tablet was found in a well in Jamestown, Virginia.
In 2016 a number of local people in Bihar, India noticed that the water in an old well had turned into oil, so they called up the authorities.
It turned out it was indeed oil, but those who made the discovery did not get one rupee richer, as the government took charge of the well straight away.
It turned out it was a three-year-old tiger called Lighting, that had escaped from the Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve and fell into the well.
In 2016, residents from the village of Khava in India incredibly found a tiger in a well!
Weirdly enough, NASA sent the tag during a mission on the Space Shuttle Atlantis. It supposedly was a symbol of exploration, as it had once traveled between England and Jamestown.
Archaeologists discovered a 400-year-old lead shipping tag at the bottom of a well at James Fort on Jamestown Island, Virginia.
You can find this ancient Roman shoe at the Saalburg Museum.
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The reason is still unknown, but it is possible that these people were victims of a Vikings pillage, or indeed died of a disease.
A 2,000-year-old Roman shoe was found in Saalburg, a fort in Germany.
In 2014, archaeologists made an unexpected discovery during the excavation of a 9th-century Roman village called Intaranum: the remains of 20 to 30 people in one of the wells.
Archaeologists discovered an interesting find in a well full of ancient garbage in Karkemish, between Syria and Turkey.
They found clay fragments with the words of King Sargon II. The deposed king probably had his words cast into the well by orders of the new king, Nebuchadnezzar II.
Everything ended up fine, despite the 20-foot (6 m) fall. The animal was rescued and, surprisingly, suffered minor injuries.
The rockets belonged to the Mysore kingdom, and were used during the Anglo-Mysore Wars, which started in 1767.
The tablet contained Algonquian symbols, drawings of plants, animals, and people. The Algonquian alphabet might have been used by European explorers, trying to communicate in the local language.
The origins of the swords remain unknown. They could have been from the Portuguese, who were in the area in the 1500s, or possibly even an artifact from the 18th-century Anglo-Mysore wars.
In 2013, two swords were discovered in Kottakkal, India. The twist? They were both European medieval swords.
In 2008, 100 missiles dating back to the 18th century were found in a well in Shivamogga, India.
Wells have been used for millennia to get water from underground. But sometimes they have more than just water at the bottom! And we're not talking about people who accidentally (or not) fall into wells, but about the many weird and wonderful things that have been discovered throughout the years in wells.
From swords to tigers, in this gallery we list some of the most bizarre things ever found in wells. Click on!
Tigers and other bizarre things found in wells
You'll be surprised by many of these discoveries
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Wells have been used for millennia to get water from underground. But sometimes they have more than just water at the bottom! And we're not talking about people who accidentally (or not) fall into wells, but about the many weird and wonderful things that have been discovered throughout the years in wells.
From swords to tigers, in this gallery we list some of the most bizarre things ever found in wells. Click on!