Right start afresh - Dig up the plants you want to keep & put them in containers & prune back & water well - dig & fork your plot over a spit deep {spade} get some top soil & landscape the area into a crown in the middle - remove any perennial...
Yeah. Me too. I was trying to capture some of the unusual elements. The actual nuts and bolts. The hinges and the doors that have been there over a 100 years(?).