ARWadsworth wrote:

"Steve Firth" wrote in message
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When we were repairing this house we found a dead cat under the
floorboards. There was also a bowler hat and a pair of shoes, all of the
same era (about 1726).

It could be worth a new thread "What have you found under floorboards?"
I have had some good and bad finds.

Been done several times before actually!

See "What's the weirdest thing someone's left under _your_ floor?"
(1998): http://tinyurl.com/yva7v4 - but I know I've seen at least
another one more recently than that...

David