Steve Lanc

That is gorgeous 😍. I bet your heart skipped when that first saw the light of day !

I'm guessing you're not expecting to see them again for a while 🫤

Nice display, I like that !

Could the key be for a clock ?

Lovely find, and thank you for indulging me 😁

Mary groat please 😁

Open end is a square aperture

Small pointed copper alloy artefact with two articulated joints

Found this intriguing artefact recently, but do not have a clue what it is. It has two joints, which are not entirely seized and still have some play in them, and the open end aperture is square in shape, about 2x2mm. Any suggestions gratefully received ! @findsorguk.bsky.social
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Our farmer would have that off you in a heart-beat 🤣

Got to love those eyes 😁🤩

Stephen or Matilda, either way a cracking find 😍

Stunning find, congratulations !

Don't I know it 🤣

Wow, fantastic condition too 😍

Beautiful 🤩. Always a treat to recover one of those .

Thanks, I was more than happy with that 😀

First time out for a long while yesterday, now that the ground is damp and you can actually get a spade in it.
Star of the session for me was this lovely Nuremberg Jeton, one of the best I've ever found. Produced between 1553 and 1612 by one of the Shultes clan, father, son or grandson. 22mm dia.

We love Oxburgh Hall, good choice !

Of course you have 😅

Would love to find one of those, what a little cracker!

I'm sorry to say it, but the rest of the world now views America as a fascist state. It's a tragedy, but no longer news

Same height as Victoria !

Think mine would have to be Henry VIII. I get the occasional Elizabeth, and Roman, but a Henry is a real rarity, especially in that condition.

Nice collection ! Would love to find one of the larger ones, we don't seem to get them on our fields, just pennies and smaller.

Wowser 😲😍 congratulations. Still on my bucket list; maybe some day !

Both female (left) and male (right) components of a clog clasp, designed to be an easy and effective way of fixing the leather upper of a wooden-soled clog without the need for laces.

Undersides of the clasps, showing the anchor shaped hooks that attached the clasps to the leather and the simple hook that joined the clasp components together.

How the clasp pair would have looked when engaged.

An example from the web of how such clasps would have looked on a pair of clogs.

Now and then I will dig up part of a clog clasp, but this is the first time I have found a matching pair in one session, albeit from different parts of the field. Clogs were worn by all classes, and these clasps date from between roughly 1700-1900AD, for clogs with wooden soles and leather uppers.

Any chance we can add a quota of hashtags to a post without having to eat into the character limit ?

Absolutely, in fact it's the first type 7 I've found, so a great one to start with

That's what I thought 😁

I am really fortunate that in Norfolk I dig up medieval silver hammered coins fairly frequently, but seldom do I get to see as much detail as on this one found this week, absolutely gorgeous. It's an Edward I penny, Type 7b minted in London 1292-1296AD. Pity about the plough dink, otherwise perfect.

I know, unbelievable isn't it, that it could survive that well in the soil for over 2000 years