DAY 5 ON THE BULLET FIELD.......................UPDATED

[dugupfinds]

No posting yesterday as I was ill in bed. I decided today, better ill detecting than ill inside so off I went with lots of layers on.

Bored of digging bullets every 5 minutes so went to an area where there were less & found the following:

2 lead tokens, one with JB on it (17th Century J)
17th century brass farthing (token) - emailed a friend who is doing a book on these rare finds, for an id (will update later)
Navy button
Early lead bag seal
1884 Halfpenny
19th century halfpenny token
Victorian farthing
Medieval lead button
Etc.........

Any button experts? A one piece military button with crown over "H"

The last 30mins I went back to the bullet area and found the following (picture 2).

May have been ill but this was a little better, still hoping for something really good.

 

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[Night Stalker]

Re: DAY 5 ON THE BULLET FIELD.......................

FANTASTIC DIGS!​

I just LOVE digging old bullets and relics....very well done!!!​

 

[civilman1]

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I'd get tired of diggin' bullet's too if I knew the other stuff was there....They're not going anywhere...Congrat's on some excellent find's!!!

 

[DigDugNY]

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Very nice

 

[romeo-1]

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Another fantastic group of finds!

 

[bookfisher]

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EXCELLENT FINDS! KEEP'EM COMIN' I WANT TO MOVE TO THE UNITED KINGDOM!

 

[Postalrevnant]

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Great finds. Great coins and great relics.

Congratulations,

Postalrevnant

 

[hollowpointred]

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nice stuff!

 

[dugupfinds]

The 17th century token as described by the expert and good friend:

"John Bradley
In Offord Cluny

probably after 1660 - there is a neater variety which is dated 1660.
Yes reasonably rare - I haven't got one, but have seen 4, if you ever want to part with it, happy to add it to my heap."

Incase you don't know these tokens were produced by shop keepers to plug to small change gap. They were illegal tender but the government turned a blind eye as they didn't have the funds to produce more coins. They started in the late 1640s & ended about 30 years later.

You could only spend them in the shop named on the token & only when you had 10 or so. Thats where the express "Its not worth a brass farthing" came from.

 

[dugupfinds]

Another interesting update:

The other halfpenny token is earlier than I thought (see picture):

Vale of Avoca Copper Mine - South Ireland. The hill I was detecting has been cut through by the irish navies in 1840s to build the railway.

Great connection with the hard working Irish which build everything the Brits were too lazy to do. (you may guess I'm 1/4 south Irish & I dig like them too!)

 

[dugupfinds]

Heres what the British Museums example of my 17th century token looks like:

 

[dugupfinds]

Just found out that the field next to the one I am doing is owned by the same farmer.

It has a dis-used railway line running across it parrell to the river. So lots of scope there then!

I plan to try it soon.