Metal detecting Guys

[Arry 21,820]

12 minutes ago, .357shooter said:

problem with that is not knowing any land owners and ones i do know have lots of things they have buried on their land that they do not want me finding/digging up.

Could always go knocking on a few farm doors mate. A mate on here in Wales said he would it easier to get detecting permission the ferreting permission. 

Cheers Arry

[Arry 21,820]

Out today for couple hours.

A Roman Sestertius Marcus Aurelius 161 - 180 AD. Also a very very worn William 3rd Sixpence.

Sure its the same as this.

Cheers Arry

[DIDO.1 22,811]

13 minutes ago, Arry said:

Out today for couple hours.

A Roman Sestertius Marcus Aurelius 161 - 180 AD. Also a very very worn William 3rd Sixpence.

Sure its the same as this.

Cheers Arry

Would love a site with Roman on, quite rare in Lancashire. 

The new shoot is across the river from a Roman museum and settlement so you never know

[Arry 21,820]

7 minutes ago, DIDO.1 said:

Would love a site with Roman on, quite rare in Lancashire. 

The new shoot is across the river from a Roman museum and settlement so you never know

Rare in Devon mate. They didn't think they came much farther than Exeter but a Villa was found at Ipplepen about 4 miles from me. I've found 4 roman coins now but just odd ones right in the middle of a field with nothing else around.

Cheers Arry

[paulus 26]

Back in the 1970`s when the M69 was being built between Leicester and Coventry, My old man and brother worked on the construction, I use to go to work with my old man on a Saturday. The amount of Roman coins i use to pick up after the scrapers hade done a pass was unreal. No idea what happened to them as there were tins full. A long, long time ago Lol

[DIDO.1 22,811]

Found this piece of bone in a high section of river bank opposite a Roman settlement. It's been cut with a saw then snapped. It seems to have something pushed into it.

 

Edited August 12, 2023 by DIDO.1

[DIDO.1 22,811]

There's a cut mark on the other end as well, so it's been cut to this short length rather than in the course of butchering 

Edited to say it was just a little piece of stone stuck in the end. 

 

Edited August 12, 2023 by DIDO.1

[Arry 21,820]

4 hours ago, DIDO.1 said:

There's a cut mark on the other end as well, so it's been cut to this short length rather than in the course of butchering 

Edited to say it was just a little piece of stone stuck in the end. 

 

Knife handle mate???

Cheers Arry

[mackem 26,439]

3 minutes ago, Arry said:

Knife handle mate???

Cheers Arry

Or some odd votive offering thrown in the river?

[DIDO.1 22,811]

14 minutes ago, Arry said:

Knife handle mate???

Cheers Arry

Some sort of little handle I reckon.

Thanks for your interest though lads..... everyone I show my little piece of bone to looks at me like I'm a weird cnut. 

I'm going to get it carbon dated. I'll show the fckers.

Edited August 12, 2023 by DIDO.1

[mackem 26,439]

6 minutes ago, DIDO.1 said:

Some sort of little handle I reckon.

Thanks for your interest though lads..... everyone I show my little piece of bone to looks at me like I'm a weird cnut. 

I'm going to get it carbon dated. I'll show the fckers.

Romans would throw all sorts into rivers as offerings,including broken knives etc,you ain’t weird at all,you have some really interesting hobbies.

[DIDO.1 22,811]

8 minutes ago, mackem said:

Romans would throw all sorts into rivers as offerings,including broken knives etc,you ain’t weird at all,you have some really interesting hobbies.

I considered spending £400 to get it carbon dated until the kids grassed me up to the Mrs. If it had come back as 2000 year old I would of smiled, thought "told you so" to myself, then thrown it into my shed never to be looked at again

[mackem 26,439]

1 minute ago, DIDO.1 said:

I considered spending £400 to get it carbon dated until the kids grassed me up to the Mrs. If it had come back as 2000 year old I would of smiled, thought "told you so" to myself, then thrown it into my shed never to be looked at again

Sounds perfectly normal behaviour to me (ground the kids,fiddle their pocket money to scratch up the £400 then THEY have paid the 400 notes,chuckle when you get the results back).

[mel b 2,398]

34 minutes ago, DIDO.1 said:

I considered spending £400 to get it carbon dated until the kids grassed me up to the Mrs. If it had come back as 2000 year old I would of smiled, thought "told you so" to myself, then thrown it into my shed never to be looked at again

You'd feel a right spanner if you had it carbon dated , and it came off someone's sandwich a fortnight ago .

[NEWKID 27,153]

50 minutes ago, DIDO.1 said:

I considered spending £400 to get it carbon dated until the kids grassed me up to the Mrs. If it had come back as 2000 year old I would of smiled, thought "told you so" to myself, then thrown it into my shed never to be looked at again

Lot of money to find out it was out of a bargain bucket lol