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Interesting metal detecting finds
George111 replied to George111's topic in Nothing whatsoever to do with coins area!
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Interesting metal detecting finds
George111 replied to George111's topic in Nothing whatsoever to do with coins area!
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Interesting metal detecting finds
George111 replied to George111's topic in Nothing whatsoever to do with coins area!
These could be post medieval thimbles I've not really looked into it tbh, the larger of the 2 can just about fit on my little finger the other barely fits on the tip of it -
Interesting metal detecting finds
George111 replied to George111's topic in Nothing whatsoever to do with coins area!
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Interesting metal detecting finds
George111 replied to George111's topic in Nothing whatsoever to do with coins area!
Lead alloy whirligig or buzz disc, which has been cut from lead sheeting. The buzz disc is circular in plan and has a shape serrated edge. In the centre are two pinched off-centre holes, through which a looped string or cord would have been threaded. The spinning disc would have produced a whirring noise when the tension was relaxed by pulling the hands apart -
Interesting metal detecting finds
George111 replied to George111's topic in Nothing whatsoever to do with coins area!
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Interesting metal detecting finds
George111 replied to George111's topic in Nothing whatsoever to do with coins area!
And here http://www.ukdfd.co.uk/ukdfddata/search.php?searchid=33430 -
Interesting metal detecting finds
George111 replied to George111's topic in Nothing whatsoever to do with coins area!
Yes https://finds.org.uk/database/images/index/q/lead+sling+shot -
Interesting metal detecting finds
George111 replied to George111's topic in Nothing whatsoever to do with coins area!
Its a bit like carp fishing when your buzzer goes off you don't what it is till you get it out (dirt fishing) -
Interesting metal detecting finds
George111 replied to George111's topic in Nothing whatsoever to do with coins area!
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Interesting metal detecting finds
George111 replied to George111's topic in Nothing whatsoever to do with coins area!
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Interesting metal detecting finds
George111 replied to George111's topic in Nothing whatsoever to do with coins area!
Bristol museum finds officer said he's never seen anything like it and can't find any recording's of one so has taken it to investigate further, could be unique Deffo bronze and used by silver smith to make fine jewellery there is evidence of specks of silver impregnated into the bronze -
Took this coin to the Bristol museum and the finds officer has said its a roman soldier killing a horseman in battle minted in France AD348 and not the coin I thought it was and so instead of it being 1,975 yrs old its only 1,600 yrs old LOL
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Interesting metal detecting finds
George111 replied to George111's topic in Nothing whatsoever to do with coins area!
Probably a fertility symble maybe the pot was given as a wedding gift -
Interesting metal detecting finds
George111 replied to George111's topic in Nothing whatsoever to do with coins area!
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Interesting metal detecting finds
George111 replied to George111's topic in Nothing whatsoever to do with coins area!
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Interesting metal detecting finds
George111 replied to George111's topic in Nothing whatsoever to do with coins area!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Port_Railway_and_Pier Well that's that then and there was me thinking its some landed gentries posh coat button LOL -
Interesting metal detecting finds
George111 replied to George111's topic in Nothing whatsoever to do with coins area!
Gold gilt button made in Birmingham letters could possibly be the owners names -
Interesting metal detecting finds
George111 replied to George111's topic in Nothing whatsoever to do with coins area!
"Scrap lead" top bit has been shaped into a builders plumb bob weight and the other looks like it was used as a palm push for sewing things White lead solphate deposits could indicate some age but that would be a guess -
Interesting metal detecting finds
George111 replied to George111's topic in Nothing whatsoever to do with coins area!
Yeah what he said -
Interesting metal detecting finds
George111 replied to George111's topic in Nothing whatsoever to do with coins area!
Doubt that theory seeing as the same design has been found in a few other parts of the country in defferant yrs and I like finding lead objects that are not just scrap metal -
I've got a lot coins in worse looking state than this being it could be 1,975 yrs old cAD42 cAD43
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I can also see vicimarias's legs and arm quite well it looks like a cross/dagger in his hand, can also just about make out the hand shake of the 2 figures "Agrippa"? and "Claudius"? in the centre You can't see the neck of "Claudius"? obviously because of the damage and delamination of metal of that area
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In hand I can see KA---P parts of this word KAICAP on the heads side, when I tilt it I can see the impressions of the 2 virtical lines either side of the "figures" which make the sides of the "temple"
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Interesting metal detecting finds
George111 replied to George111's topic in Nothing whatsoever to do with coins area!