Coins, Buttons, Badges, Whistles, Musket balls and Suspicious Lead Bits.

[TannersHatch]

My oven broke. Which hacked me off. So I went to my best yielding haunt to cheer myself up instead of the low yielding but with roman possibilities site i had intended.
Tried a new corner which yielded mostly modern junk and a but a few keepers, and an unexpected musket ball (best kind). Then I moved on to a junky footpath near an old school and Scout hut. (Dr Tones HT Pattern and Tadpole)
A piece of electrical equipment with POD on it (what is this thing?)

A Musket ball (Brown Bess, 30.4g) Unfired.
A WW1 era merchant navy button.
2 x WW1 General Service military buttons.
A cool looking flower button, + 2 others
A Girl guides whistle (ACME) 1950's
A 'J.J whiskey man' Brass and enamel Pendant Badge (J.R.Gaunt.London) 1930's-50's

Another 2 x 1971 1p coins (I know these are in circulation but apparently there worth a couple quid each so i'm calling them keepers). Can these really be rare? There seems to be a lot of them about.

(1861) Victoria half penny,
Two George V pennies (1981 and god knows) and a half penny (1920),
(1938) George VI ship penny and (1943) Thrupenny bit
(1961) Lizzy penny

A square bit of lead with 'L 3' on it? I think... could be a token, could be a confusingly smushed bit of lead nothing. Any ideas chaps?

Another lead item (which I scarred with my trowel like a twerp). A fishing weight do you think?

and finally a tiny copper bar and a bit of lead with a rust iron spike through it (going in the weird signals box).


A good day. I'm hunting for gold amongst the loads of junk in this area so I'm digging a lot of aluminium too. No gold yet but I can smell it out there. And still the plan worked I no longer give a c**p about the oven and have ordered a new one.

Happy digging

UPDATE: The square thing is a bag seal (props to smallfoot in the what is it section)

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[Indian Steve]

Looks like a GREAT Hunt to me.

 

[TannersHatch]

Looks like a GREAT Hunt to me.

It was Its a great spot, just a little more digging than other spots in the same area is all.

 

[AJH]

Definitely a productive outing. Congrats!

 

[cmthunder]

Very nice finds there

 

[Digger RJ]

Nice Hunt!!!!! Congrats!!!!!

 

[CRUSADER]

I replaced my oven in Lockdown II.

Looks like loads of targets to dig!

Not sure on the square lead but not a token, so the next most likely is a homemade trade weight.

 

[TannersHatch]

I replaced my oven in Lockdown II.

Looks like loads of targets to dig!

Not sure on the square lead but not a token, so the next most likely is a homemade trade weight.

Damn ovens.
And the lead weight has been identified as a Bag seal (Post office maybe)

 

[CRUSADER]

Damn ovens.
And the lead weight has been identified as a Bag seal (Post office maybe)

I'm not sure it is, I find those & they are crimped. In fact Cru'dad found one today that we will post later.

 

[TannersHatch]

So, the mystery deepens. Thanks. I'll have a look.