A digging day off, is a day well spent 😆 x

[blossom]

Today we went back to the Ridge and furrow fields, just outside the village. Absolutely beautiful day spent digging the beeps😆..

Musket balls, buttons, a beautiful First World War badge, a 1848 four pence, with a hole thru, buckles, a gorgeous bridle boss (?), Roman nail (?) large piece of metal pot(?) that was so deep 😅… ! And a few other bits 🤔… xx oh nd some pics I took just because …. 😍 xx (sorry, the copper coin is a George 2nd) xx

 

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[lenmac65]

Nice finds, post, and pictures. Looks like your soil is a little kinder to coppers than in my area. Congrats!

 

[Digger RJ]

Today we went back to the Ridge and furrow fields, just outside the village. Absolutely beautiful day spent digging the beeps😆..

Musket balls, buttons, a beautiful First World War badge, a 1848 four pence, with a hole thru, buckles, a gorgeous bridle boss (?), Roman nail (?) large piece of metal pot(?) that was so deep 😅… ! And a few other bits 🤔… xx oh nd some pics I took just because …. 😍 xx (sorry, the copper coin is a George 2nd) xx
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Very Nice!!!! Congrats!!!!

 

[Silvermonkey]

You've got a great eye blossum. The photos are all lovely.
P.S.- your finds are pretty great too!

 

[scruggs]

Nice finds!

 

[pepperj]

Well done once again.
Liking the 1st photo finds-
Well done on the silver and the copper.
Beautiful photos once again-almost feels like one can walk right into the screen

 

[Coinstar magnet]

Today we went back to the Ridge and furrow fields, just outside the village. Absolutely beautiful day spent digging the beeps😆..

Musket balls, buttons, a beautiful First World War badge, a 1848 four pence, with a hole thru, buckles, a gorgeous bridle boss (?), Roman nail (?) large piece of metal pot(?) that was so deep 😅… ! And a few other bits 🤔… xx oh nd some pics I took just because …. 😍 xx (sorry, the copper coin is a George 2nd) xx
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Wow, the WW1 button looks new! Great find! Lots of great recoveries. Most enjoyable post

 

[Bamasteve]

Great finds as usual and awesome Great War badge!

 

[oldmxrat]

Super finds and pics again, thanks for sharing!

 

[Rhapsody]

Today we went back to the Ridge and furrow fields, just outside the village. Absolutely beautiful day spent digging the beeps😆..

Musket balls, buttons, a beautiful First World War badge, a 1848 four pence, with a hole thru, buckles, a gorgeous bridle boss (?), Roman nail (?) large piece of metal pot(?) that was so deep 😅… ! And a few other bits 🤔… xx oh nd some pics I took just because …. 😍 xx (sorry, the copper coin is a George 2nd) xx
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I'd wear that fourpence wow cool!

 

[blossom]

Update on the badge… The Comrades of The Great War were formed in 1917 as an association to represent the rights of ex-service men and women who had served or had been discharged from service during World War 1.

Comrades of The Great War was one of the original four ex-service associations that amalgamated on Sunday 15 May 1921 to form The British Legion. xx

 

[Red-Coat]

Cool assortment of finds. The very beat up item in your fifth picture and the holed item in the sixth picture appear to be German jetons. I think both are probably by Hans Schultes of Nürnberg (now Nuremberg) and from between 1608-1612. Like this one, which has some variants:



Obverse: Turbanned bust with necklace and legend GLICK KVMPT VON GOT IST WAR [Happiness comes from God is true]
Reverse: Imperial orb within trefoil and legend HANS SCHVLTES ZV NVRENB [Hans Schultes for Nürnberg]

 

[ArfieBoy]

Super finds! Congratulations! Thanks for sharing with us and the update on the badge!

 

[CRUSADER]

Cool assortment of finds. The very beat up item in your fifth picture and the holed item in the sixth picture appear to be German jetons. I think both are probably by Hans Schultes of Nürnberg (now Nuremberg) and from between 1608-1612. Like this one, which has some variants:

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Obverse: Turbanned bust with necklace and legend GLICK KVMPT VON GOT IST WAR [Happiness comes from God is true]
Reverse: Imperial orb within trefoil and legend HANS SCHVLTES ZV NVRENB [Hans Schultes for Nürnberg]

Agreed, I was going to point out the same although I like the alternative spelling - Jettons. Don't know why....

 

[Red-Coat]

Agreed, I was going to point out the same although I like the alternative spelling - Jettons. Don't know why....

You pays yer money, and you makes yer choice, as they say.

The word comes to us from old French, derived from the verb “jeter” literally meaning “to throw” but, for jetons, used in the sense of something being “pushed around”. That’s the way they were originally used on a checquered board of course, in a similar way to the beads on an abacus, to make accounting calculations.

Their first uses dates to the time when French was our ‘official’ language (c1066-1362) but, like many words we inherited from French, acquired an alternative anglicised spelling (as “jetton”) with the same pronunciation.