I’m very chuffed to find my first clearly Roman coin today!. I think I’ve had others but they were so badly worn that I don’t think it really counts.
- Roman coin: antoninianus, or radiate depicting Diocletian, 284 to 305 AD
- A button that says “
Greshman Club” on it. The Gresham Club was a gentlemen’s club in the City of London founded in 1843. It was named after Thomas Gresham and its last site was located on Abchurch Lane off King William Street. - George V Half Penny 1918
- George III Penny 1701
- Lead cow’s head.
- Emerald green bottle, Icilma Vanishing cream, 1921-1953
- Nifty looking key or something.
- Not shown: Couple of musket balls.
Emperor Diocletian 
Worth 2 Denari 
Nice key or… 
Gresham Club, 1845 
Not sure what was in this 
half penny, 1918 
George V 
1701 penny 
George III 
Lead cow’s head
I’m slightly disappointed that it doesn’t actually say Florin on it, and a bit more disappointed that it’s not one of the silver ones, but a Florin’s a Florin!
I saw lots of people posting finds this weekend despite all the snow so when the temp climbed from -6c this morning to my minimal acceptable lower limit I dashed out for a quick 90 minutes in my favorite field. It was wet but I wasn’t actually cold between my layered coats, ski pants, and wellies. I found the almost obligatory coin, a nice stock buckle that still has a functioning clip and two buttons. Found an old piece of lead too, but haven’t cleaned it up yet. More on that later. If I hadn’t made it out today I was looking at 3 straight weeks without any detecting and it was kinda getting to me. 🙂
Young Victoria Hapenny 1861 
reverse half penny 
Conical button 1785-1800 
reverse of conical button 
button: 1760-1785 
not so much detail 
Men’s Stock pin. possibly 1750-1850 
The pins still pivots!
I scrabbled a lot in the gravel of a dry riverbed today. Not many finds worth commenting on, but this one is a bit remarkable. It looks like a ring but it’s not, it’s a finger ring from a candle holder. I found one a few years ago and it took ages to figure it out because it’s just a small part of the whole artifact. And curiously, it’s broken in the exact same way as the other one. This is today’s find:
And this is the one I found about 5 miles away:
This is what it looked like when still attached to the candle holder.
One guy on Facebook referred to it as a ‘partifact’ or ‘partial artifact. A word that bears repeating.
One night I had a dream in which I was playing Warcraft and all I did was hang out in the part of Dark Shore known as the ‘Twilight Vale’ with my 110th level night elf hunter toon and fought everything but the animals that live there. If you knew anything about how I played WOW back in the day this wouldn’t sound that out of character, nor would my choice of locales. I can’t remember what level zone Twilight Vale is so I took a look at the WoWWiki online and Oh My God have I missed a lot!
Wiltshire Regiment, Signal Corps cap badge, Dorset(shire) Regiment
Victorian Dress Weight 
Small Watch Face, gold plated silver 
Edward Vii Ha-penny, 1904 
Late Victoria Ha-Penny, 1896 
George Vi Half Crown, 1948
I’m amazed and proud to say I’ve been given a new permission. It has some interesting history around it and I’m really looking forward to seeing what it produces. I found the following items on my first visit. If it has this to offer after just two hours, there should be some amazing things waiting to be discovered.
“How embarrassing. The continuation of our species matters more than you can imagine.
It is the single most important thing we can do. Sounds good to me, I said.
I didn’t have to say: can we change the meeting from 6 to 11? My kids have a music recital and I don’t want to miss it for the world. I’ll tell you what happened next. (Things were looking worse.)
I’d seen many of the same things I’ve seen before. (I’d seen something really weird. 🙂 Are there a lot of these types of accidents? I’d walk down to the stream, look around, and take a deep breath.
Love what you do and do what you love.
What are we going to do tonight? I asked. My job was to apply the formula. Why do guys like you and me know what a duvet is? Are you getting pieces of this?”
A woman boarded my train at the last minute and began to sort thru all the shopping she had with her before sitting down. She moved half the contents of one bag into the other and we all got a good look at what she’d bought. The bag was full of collars. Thirty or more black dog collars, all the same size, all studded. Each one caught the light as she sorted them but I lost track after 30 when the fella sitting by her quipped “You must have a lot of dogs!” She replied, “No, just one very naughty one.”
