One last Roman thing then I'll try to dig out something from after the Romans left This is the top bit of a Roman Fibula. The clasp like brooch that held a toga closed, everyone that wore a toga had several of these so they're very common finds. This one is bronze with a little bit of gold plate left. It was found about 25 yards from the bit of Roman plate I showed above.
I've thought many times about getting a metal detector. What holds me back is, I really don 't expect to find anything, and I don't know the state or county regulations. Plus if I do find something, that's more stuff to accumulate, and I don't need that So I talk myself out of it before I even start LOL.
Used to have to get a pipe locator's licence here but we don't need one now. You never know what you might find Daniel, this is great
Here's the Saxon thing I promised, the Saxon period was from when the Romans left, about AD 400 to when the Normans invaded in 1066.
Yeap Zigs you got that right… goes back way , way, back . Shoes for all those dinosaurs roaming around . Nice collection of ancient relics.
Good spot Ladies I wondered about that Annie, Tetters bought me some new Horseshoe nails a few years back, they looked different Missed this Roman one off.. Hard to date as one clay ball looks like another but I found this one in the same area as the other Roman finds. I used to find them in churchyards a lot when I was working on them. Assumed those ones were much later, lost by children waiting for mum and dad to come out of church. Often found game boards carved into the seats in church porches too.
Around here, while there were people here for 15,000 years or so, the Missoula floods would have washed away anything older than about 13,000 years. And they didn't work with metal. I suppose there could be arrow heads. Maybe something else stone, but not much. I think even bones would degrade in a decade or less. It's pretty constantly moist to wet, acidic soil, and full of critters. So maybe something from settlers or cavalry. Cannonball, or a lost gold coin or ring. A mammoth tooth maybe? There used to be seaglass at the beaches, bit I think most of that is gone now. I envy the rich history of UK, Neolithic to now. US is just getting started.
Where I used to live in Wales had been wiped clean by the glaciers 10,000 years ago. I found a wonderful quartz crystal in the garden, some gold on quartz up the mountain and a neighbour found a carved slate disc which was possibly a Celtic token. Tetters bought me the latest metal detector for my birthday, I took it out to try it out and found this in 10 yards... Found a few lead musket balls too, both had been shot (slightly flattened on one side) No Mammoths yet (although they do find tusks and bones in fishing trawlers over Doggerland) but I did find a tooth from a giant manta ray in the London clay, must be about 50 million years old. Can't find where I've put it at the moment though.
