METAL DETECTING FINDS FROM MY LOCAL FIELDS
Nov 8, 2026
Since I have been working, I have been going out detecting early morning or late at night in the fields around my house in the pursuit of a hammered silver coin. Obviously, if I took a trip down to Yorkshire or Linconshire they would turn up but I only have a couple of hours here and there to hunt.
Did I find one? No, but there was quite a few digs which made the finds pouch. The only ones which are going in my collection are the two decent musket balls and the lead token.
There is always next time......
I will be doing a review of my finds since I got my detector so look out for that video. There are plenty of nice silver coins and interesting historical finds to show.
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In my pursuit of a hammered silver coin before the end of the year,
Um...
this is what I've dug up over the last few trips
in the fields around my home.
Unfortunately I haven't found a hammered silver coin.
Thought I had when I found that,
but it's actually a silver plated early Victorian penny.
Bit of a
disappointment.
Found what looks like a thick Roman bronze.
Just about got some inscriptions along the sides here.
Can't read them though, it's very worn.
Load of old buttons.
Musket balls. I always seem to find them no matter where I go.
A collection of things which look like ring-shaped effigies.
This one's possibly a handle of something.
These, I don't know. That might have been an old buckle or something.
I don't know what that is. I thought I would put it in though.
It looks like it's a bit of a brooch. Possibly Roman, don't know.
I found a lead token. This is the first kind
of proper lead token that I've found.
Maybe it doesn't show up too well,
but there's like a crown and there's initials underneath it there.
About the size of a modern
One pound coin, about the same weight as well.
There's a lead shape there with a picture of a town or something on.
And on the back it says something about National Federation
of something or other, but it's all worn off.
Various coins,
ranging from the Roman right up to George VI.
Terrible condition, that one. In fact,
nearly all of them are in terrible condition.
We've got Victorian penny, half penny, Georgian half pennies.
Possibly George's second half pennies, these ones, I'm not sure.
That one definitely is, it just about make out the bust on it.
Hammered copper, I think it's got CR written on it.
So I think that's possibly Charles I.
Not sure, but it's terrible condition.
Again, terrible condition coins.
Terrible, terrible.
And, strangely, an 1855 Napoleon III French coin.
That just cropped up in the middle of one of the fields.
So, that was unusual.
So in total it's probably taken me about six hours
to gather all that rubbish and really the only
thing that I'm going to put in my collection is those two musket balls
which are worth absolutely
nought. But I'm going out tomorrow
on a site where there was a Victorian house and also
there was an ancient Roman road went through
so it's never been done and hopefully I'll
I'll find something more interesting.
Thanks for watching.