MEDIEVAL AND ROMAN SILVER WITH THE ETRAC - LIVE DIGS

You feel the weight of that? When you're down 12 foot, 10, 11 foot, you don't want it out heavy. So you dig 10, 11 foot holes into the tips? Well yeah, I've dug 92 12-footers in the last 10 years in this tip, and about 10, 11-footers. Ah, you're about a thousand foot deep, aren't you? Oh, that's a great guy! Hello there, welcome to my latest metal detecting video. You tell him, son. You tell him. I came in two or three nights ago and I suddenly had the urge to go metal detecting, I felt lucky so I went out in one of the local fields, local pasture field and I found a hammered coin which in itself is rare enough around here but this one is a reasonably rare hammered coin, certainly for this area. That one's coming up very shortly and then last night I had the urge to go detecting Again, this was about Half ten, eleven o'clock at night, I was just getting ready for bed and I just thought, you know, I bet there's something in that field over the road. So, got my detector, went out with a torch and a video camera, and I found a Roman coin, which again, in itself, around here, is very rare. This one was silver, and it's a very old one as well, so I'm ecstatic about that. I'd never found a silver Roman coin before that point. And this one's a good one. So stay tuned and you'll see that as well. That looks like a lead token. It is. What a belter. What an absolute belter. I'm going to rub it too much because it has a habit of wearing off. That looks like an absolute cracker. Certainly the best lead token I've found. Excellent. Absolutely great. I've given that lead token a little bit of a clean up. Basically just gently rubbed it. And that looks like an anchor. There's the top of the anchor. There's definitely a rope going through it. I would say it looks like an anchor and that's the other side. What a great little artifact. It's getting near dark now, and I've got something in about four or five inches. It was reading right in the middle of the screen and it's possibly a coin, definitely a coin. It's got U.S. on there. Just trying to focus that a bit better. It's awful. That's it. That's better. Can't see what it says. It's definitely silver, possibly hammered. I'm gonna have to clean that up, but I'm pretty excited about that. It's definitely got some detail on it. So here's a close-up of the first great find that I made a few days ago. Not sure how well that's coming out. Actually, that doesn't look too bad on the viewfinder there. But that's a Philip and Mary groat. It's only got one bust on there, which is Mary. Because in the denominations up to a groat, there was only room for one bust. So only Mary went on. But it does say Philip and Mary down the side. The higher denominations had Philip on as well. That's the back of it. That's not too bad, it's got a shield on and that coin is from the mid-1500s. So I'm very pleased with that coin, very pleased indeed. And then when I went out last night I made some pretty decent finds apart from the Roman silver and when the silver came up I didn't let myself get too excited but I kind of knew it was silver. This signal was reading 1035 and by the looks of it got an old penny, more than likely Victorian judging by the state of it. Tiny little musket ball. From a pistol, flintlock pistol. Now that looks like a bag seal. Yep, definitely a bag seal. See the little holes in the side there. Doesn't appear to have any writing on though. Yeah, it looks like a... Oh, I would say judging by the thickness of it, probably is a Georgian half penny. Ah, there you go. It's another bag seal. Ah, that one's got a bit writing on though. That's good. There you go, there's a close-up. Just about see some writing around the edges there. Sometimes got some nice patterns on them as well, but that's a reasonably plain one. I don't know what that is but it's possibly a hook from a pantry or something for hanging meat up. Very tactile, it's lovely to hold. It's a nice shape that. Something else just caught my eye down here. Looks, I don't know, looks to be a piece of black shaped glass or maybe it's plastic. It looks like glass. Not sure what that's of. It's an interesting thing to find. I found it in the same hole. It was right next to that fella. The old pro pointers about knackered I think we could do with some more batteries. Ah, this might be a lead token. Definitely something on there. It looks like a stamp of some sort. Don't know whether it's a deer or a lion or something. And it's got some writing on the back. Looks like 698 or 869. I'm not entirely sure. Doesn't look like your typical lead token. Definitely got something on there though. Either a bear or a lion or something or other. If I had to hazard a guess I would say lead token. Although I think it's maybe just a fancy bag seal. Yeah it looks like there's been something passed through there. And through there. So maybe it's just a fancy bag seal. Now there's a wonderful sound. Stop now. There it goes. Female fox shouting for a mate. Pretty blood curdling. Now then I'm not sure what that is. It was given a signal of 1140. And it was fairly constant. Actually it looks to have a head on. Definitely looks to have a head on. And it was given a signal of silver. Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha. Now I don't recognise that head. But it looks to be. I don't want to see it. But it looks to be, I hope, a Roman silver coin. I won't know until I get it cleaned up and I don't want to rub it because I'll get into trouble. Definitely looks very Roman. There's definitely a Roman nose on there. And it looks to have quite a lot of detail, so I'm pretty damn excited about that. Pretty excited indeed. Hopefully it'll clean up okay and you'll be able to have a look. Very excited. Very excited indeed. Excellent. And it was right on the top. Not even an inch under the ground. And although I do live near A small Roman fort. This is the first Roman coin, I think, that I've found anywhere near my place. And it looks to be a good'un. That is the Roman silver. That's reasonably clear. And that's the Emperor Tiberius, who reigned from AD 14 to 37. So this one's knocking on for 2,000 years old, which is just unbelievable. That's definitely the oldest hammered silver coin that I've found. The back of it isn't too good. That's the back, and it's got Livia seated. You can just about make out a figure sitting down there, but the back's not too good. But I'd rather have a scabby back and a good front, and that's the front again. Certainly quite a lot of detail for a coin that'll have been shaken around in somebody's coin bag and then turned over in a field, possibly for the last 2,000 years, over and over again, getting ploughed in, ploughed out, ploughed in, ploughed out. I'm very pleased with both those finds. My detecting time is at a bit of a premium, because work's so busy at the minute, I'm digging ponds day and night, doing a load of stuff on eBay and on the internet as well, and that really made two of my nights this week. Excellent. I'm going to stick these lads in the collection, and I'll probably use them in part 10 and part 11 of Worldwide Metal Detecting Finds. Thanks for watching. The Devil Rides Out, now I've copied, I've never copied anything in my life, but I read a book called The Devil Rides Out by Dennis Wheatley, about thirty-five years ago, and all I'd done was copy the text. I never ever copied from anybody else, I think a hundred things myself. It was bitter outside and the snow had fallen And the earth was as hard as the hubs of hell The town was deserted, there was no one about, the type of night when the devil rides out There were tracks in the snow and up on the roof of the devil's trademark, the cloven hoof And on there tattooed on his breast was 666, the mark of the beast They came on unearthly shrieks, so far yet so near As the citizens they cowered and shivered in fear look ahead behind you and take great care or isn't that the sound of the devil out there watch out for the window in case his shadow should fall and silhouetted features on the bedroom wall hurry hide in the cupboard quick under the bed while you quiver in terror and your heart beats with dread he's after your soul he claimed many before so whatever you do don't answer the door then a tap on the window as you scream out in fright But it's only the sound of the wind in the night And then a loud crash as your heart missed the beat It's only the wind blow the bin down the street The wind gives you shriek and an unearthly moan And you've no one to turn to for you live on your own What's that scream out there? Listen, ho! As a candlelight flickers and you're alone in the dark You lie out there as cock alone in the gloom Listen, is that someone else in the room? You pray and you wish you had never been born. As you lie there and tremble and pray for the dawn Beware as you lie there and shake in your boots Watch out for the devil, for he's after recruits Oops. Ah, I've got hundreds more