New Field - Day 4...

[CRUSADER]

The weather was better than predicted & we only had light showers for our 6.5 hour hunt. We have now finished with this field (until priorities change), as its 90% covered & the last edge was dying off.
Although we never got that killer find from this new field we did get enough to make it worth covering;

17th C Token
Rose & Royal Farthing
2 Jettons
1694 Farthing (good nick)
Medieval Buckle with woven cloth still attached
Tudor Clothes Fastener
Tudor Knife Terminal
Early Military Button
1887 Shilling (Brooch)
1633-34 Hammered of Charles I with nail hole in Kings face, maybe an angry parliamentarian roundhead or... (touch piece or re-issue)

 

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[Generic_Lad]

I like that half-groat, the piercing looks unusual to me too, could be part of the 1696 re-coinage, but most of the examples I've seen are quite round, not square like yours is. Either way, I'd love to dig something like that up

 

[dwayne sueno]

sweet outing.
i've never seen a william III copper come out looking so good-
especially the back.
congrats!

 

[CRUSADER]

I like that half-groat, the piercing looks unusual to me too, could be part of the 1696 re-coinage, but most of the examples I've seen are quite round, not square like yours is. Either way, I'd love to dig something like that up

re-coinage was my first thought but

sweet outing.
i've never seen a william III copper come out looking so good-
especially the back.
congrats!

Yeah, Dad got it, it's more unusual in a ploughed field to be this good. There is a typical one in the middle of picture 3

 

[oldsalty19]

congrats on a lot of detecting......

 

[CRUSADER]

congrats on a lot of detecting......

 

[Westfront]

Hi Cru! That field was worth the time and effort!

 

[CRUSADER]

Hi Cru! That field was worth the time and effort!

Yes, at this time of year, it was a bonus

 

[Bill D. (VA)]

Nice haul of coins, buttons and other relics. I've never seen a hammered with a hole like that. But I like your story as to its origin.

 

[CRUSADER]

Nice haul of coins, buttons and other relics. I've never seen a hammered with a hole like that. But I like your story as to its origin.

I have found/seen holed hammered but they are towards the top of the coin, I guess to hang it. But this is a little more like the way they 'cancelled' 17th C token's to make them unusable, not something they did to silver coins, as the weight of silver was the main ingredient, so its odd

 

[uglymailman]

sorry for my ignorance but what is the squarish thing in picture 5? It appears to have writing on it. I'm always amazed at your finds. Good work.

 

[CRUSADER]

sorry for my ignorance but what is the squarish thing in picture 5? It appears to have writing on it. I'm always amazed at your finds. Good work.

http://www.ukdfd.co.uk/ukdfddata/showrecords.php?product=13543&cat=all
This?

Seems to say 'Cuth Buyder'

 

[{Sentinel}]

Good stuff as usual my friend

 

[CRUSADER]

Good stuff as usual my friend

cheers mate

 

[uglymailman]

Yes. That. So......what is a "quarterfoil"?

 

[mikusek]

There must have been a village there at one time, that field is full of stuff.

 

[umrgolf]

that buckle with the cloth is sick! and the silvers nice William copper... and I can't forget the "rare confederate bullets"

 

[Roland58]

You Limies find the coolest stuff......it seems like every good find comes from England. I guess I am going to have to visit some of my relatives and take some days out to "see the countryside" and do a little locating!! (no offense intended with the "Limie" bit, me mum's a Brit, so, I am allowed, )

I was fascinated by the brooch. Is this something fairly common....making a brooch from a coin? Have you found others?

 

[CRUSADER]

You Limies find the coolest stuff......it seems like every good find comes from England. I guess I am going to have to visit some of my relatives and take some days out to "see the countryside" and do a little locating!! (no offense intended with the "Limie" bit, me mum's a Brit, so, I am allowed, )

I was fascinated by the brooch. Is this something fairly common....making a brooch from a coin? Have you found others?

It's the first one I have found, as far as I remember. They have been turning coins into all sorts of jewelry for hundreds of years, but it's fairly uncommon.

 

[Marchas45]

Great finds Cru that hammered hole looks like a square nail hole, maybe it was nailed to a tree at one time. Man I need to get home again and do some detecting on the Borders.