That lead thing that you thought was a bird, looks just like a cow if you turn it 45 degrees. Great video as usual. You are my favorite TH-cam detector now!
What sets you apart from the rest is your expertise in history and sharing the story, along with dating the finds! Awesome channel and new subscriber! Thank you!
I'm sure in the back of my mind I watched a Time Team episode where coloured stones and marked stones where used as offerings in Romano Christian Britain, often thrown into ponds
I have to tell you tlhow much I appreciate you taking the time to explain the coins and who was king at the time. This is becoming my favorite channel. Thank you!
I do hope you ran the detector over the mole hills before flattening them, moles bring up all manner of stuff from very deep underground, loving this series of videos BTW. Quartz pebbles were often used at medieval shrines as offerings, archaeologists get very excited when they find them out of their geological context as it often signals that they are close to a chapel or shrine site
The bronze item you found looks like an old Gib head key, used to secure a pulley onto a rotating shaft, the head is that specific shape for removal with a special wedge tool. I was an agricultural engineer in Dumfries area and these are very common but this is a very large item. Hope this is useful and sorry haven’t managed to see if anyone else has mentioned this. Keep up your good work and education for all.
I only found your channel a few days ago and have been fascinated by both the artifacts that you are finding and by your commentary. What an amazing day you had. Those smooth stones may be palm stones, used in the same way as worry beads, perhaps. You are definitely going to be one of my favourite channels.
Welcome to the channel and I’m glad you are enjoying! We’ve had some great finds, and I agree with your identification, some kind of stone that was rubbed!! And maybe 6th or 7th century 😯
The lead tokens could be connected to potato harvesting as pickers would be given a token for each basket of spuds put on a cart to keep a tally to be paid at the end of the day.
Very extensive historical knowledge, you sprinkle dates, names of kings and detailed information about them which extremely enriches the value of your videos. Excellent channel.
Victoria Pennies were still being spent right up to decimalisation ... late 60s or early 70s. You'd get one in your change now and again... you might keep it or spend it
Minute ‘36’ where you called yourself an idiot…. I spontaneously laughed out loud at work and got a couple stares my way. Looks like you’re not the only idiot.
Great finds John . You had a great day. The curved brass bar is part of early twentieth century stirrup. Your silver at the end is the collar from a Victorian smoking pipe. Where the stem goes in to the bowl. I've found a few now. They range to between 7mm to 15 mm wide. LB and DG are my most common makers Birmingham. There is a gallows hill near me . and two detectorist in the nineties found Amazing collection of hammered coins token jettons . Ranging from 14th century to 17th century. Thank you for all your hard work and effort. Looking forward to seeing your next adventure many thanks wasp and Helen 🐝
You guys are so lucky. We are lucky to find a recognizable George the 3rd in America. And most of the time they are crunchy. Once in a blue moon we find pieces of eight.
A bit of a wild guess, could the decorated ball be a caged pendant? Leather or similar would be inserted in the grooves, knotted at the top and made long enough to go round the neck. The decorated and coloured finish seems to point to jewellery.
The pebbles could be important, so Definitely keep an eye out for them, because there could have been an early Christian Shrine nearby. People used to bring pebbles with them to leave at shrines, symbolising leaving part of their soul there. I remember them finding some at a shrine in Time Team once and saying it was a fairly common thing to do (I'll check on the title, but I think it's "A Saintly Site" - worth watching for the pebble bit) They were digging a leachte, an outdoor shrine at a chapel at a very early chapel on Mull. The village or castle may have had a shrine. It's wishful thinking, yes, but I wouldn't be amazed. I'm intrigued, especially after the green stone with the cross.
A Saintly Site. It's here on TH-cam. Got to be about half an hour in, but it's worth watching the whole thing. It's such an early site, but it's worth knowing about in case you stumble across one.
@@thescottishdetectorist Anything's possible, or it could just be a spot where the tradition continued. Or I could be completely wrong, but those pebbles are certainly curious 😁
Sorry to disappoint Tony, not only did I remember everything but I even found some good stuff and used the stuff I normally forget to bring to clean it 😂 😆
I need more videos John. A car knocked me off my bike and broken neck and fractured skull.I was thinking about going out with the Equinox 600 now the weather has picked up, but in a collar for 6 weeks. I love your videos, finds and historical narration.
I think the gilded item may be an opening handle for a small box. It looks as if one end of the oval ring may be hinged to lift up, and allow you to open the box . Great channel at a good pace .
I was watching a video of the excavation of a Roman grave in southern England earlier today. That piece of bronze you found looks similar to the clamps that secured the lid on the sarcophagus.
That little round decorative ball with the flur delis looks like the balls that hung on the very ancient priest robes . Plus slot of those little lead rounds look like templar markings
@@thescottishdetectorist Such a beautiful thing. I am an above average craftsman, and if you asked me to replicate that . . . well I COULD, but I doubt I could without many days work. Even with a workshop set up to do the five or six different aspects, that represents a very serious amount of work. That wasn't something the average person owned, obviously. I expect it did have something in the way of a relic or say earth or a stone from Golgotha inside.
Like a bunch of comments, just found your channel and I’m hooked. Being from the USA I love the history from Ireland and the Scottish . It’s so interesting. You teach as you hunt. Outstanding
I'm 59 and don't care at all about podcasts and live streams but i enjoy your channel a lot. Keep it up and don't change a thing. Nothing good can come of AI , it scares me more than global warming and putins nukes. To be sure !
Maybe the stones were for sling shots .picked from somewhere else and used in battle in that area ,there a perfect size. love the long shanks coin you jammy dodger ,what a great day you had well done, Greetings from wales ,ive liked and subd .
I have watched maybe three videos of yours so far…subbed after the first one and really loving your channel. I enjoy history and have ancestors from the UK, and am fascinated by the enormous history there. I live in Pennsylvania USA near Gettysburg so I see many people out in the fields here metal detecting, but have never done it myself. Now, I’m thinking about it more since watching your channel, looking forward to watching more!
Welcome to the channel Jo Anne. Many thanks and I’m glad you’re enjoying! Why don’t you see if there’s a local club that will take you out for a trial day? Or fly to Scotland and I’ll take you out for the day! Local might be cheaper 😂 let me know how you get on
@@thescottishdetectorist ohh, wouldn’t I love that! Even though more expensive, it would be great to learn from an expert AND have my feet on Scottish soil! It’s going on my bucket list 😁
The bird looks like a kingfisher sitting on a branch, and perhaps a much smaller egret/heron at 8 o'clock from the kingfisher.... but now I see the cow.
Wow quite a day! Very interesting stuff coming up, love that little possible bell thing. Large square lead piece is I think a clack valve probably from a steam powered tractor or a pump. Excellent vids👌
Your big lump of lead reminds me of a high tiders fishnet weight, the high tiders are a disappearing Scottish group on the Outerbanks of north carolina, the tubular crimped lead is a bag seal for seed, I think not found any that type here. Ours are usually for string. High tiders are original settlers.
What an amazing permission and hopefully another on the way. It’s great to hear so much history alongside these digs. This is definitely one of the best detecting TH-cam channels ….And it’s becoming a friendly household wager to guess how many items you manage to drop on a dig (1point per drop) but also if you have your toothbrush (5 points) water bottle (5 points), headphones (10 points) and bonus smash if you forget your metal detector of 1000 points. 😂Talking of games; is it possible the Lead tokens are actually pieces from a game?
Thanks MrB and welcome to the channel! I think you are spot on with your identification! Part of a musket, which is amazing!!! 🤩 Enjoy watching through the back catalogue of videos! Best wishes John
Last year I found a smoking pipe stem with a thin band of silver around the part where the stem would of met the bowl of the pipe and your silver strip looks almost identical to the one I found. Could be one and congrats on the hammie mate
In early Christian Ireland and Scotland pilgrims or just visitors often brought round quartz pebbles to shrines or holy sites so your rounded pebbles may be something similar 🤔. I also would like to say your “french ball” 😂 is a personal reliquary but that’s simply a guess. Lead at 42:20 is a pot mend im pretty sure 👍.
I think there’s something in that SDD. I’ve had a few suggestions it might be early Christian and I agree. Question is where is the holy site…. Maybe something else epic lies beneath the ground!!
@@thescottishdetectorist saw it on time team the other day and I thought about your strange stone. Wonder were they throwing them into the pond during prayer or something 🤷♂️ could have been the local “place if worship”
Amazing skill you have, I really enjoy the schooling I get watching your channel. Always loved Scottish history, then though genealogy I learned that Robert the Bruce, is my 11th great grandfather. Your knowledge in the things you find, and putting it in the times it was made, what was going on, absolutely amazing. Thank you for your knowledge, time, and effort you put into your videos.
No he's not 😂🙄 almost every single person who does those stupid genealogy things claims to be Irish or Scottish royalty. It's embarrassing. You're American mate. Thought you were all patriotic? Stop desperately trying to cling to something you're not.
The stones are probably grave/votive offerings. I've seen a couple linked to Anglo-Saxon burials that were decorated with a primitive cross or some text, and smooth non-local stones being used in ancient British tribal burials.
As a American I use to think things I saw here from the 1800s was sooo old after visiting Europe that changed a lot. Can’t wait to go again! History is amazing
Well John, that is one amazing permission!! Can't wait for more finds. As my mother also was born in the Borders (Duns), I feel a real connection with your channel. Keep safe, keep detecting and much luck. Cheers, John.
Blessings, my Scottish Detectorist friend. What a virtual Cornucopia of cool finds. As always, great content and an enjoyable and educational watch. Blessings, from the beautiful hills of Tennessee.
Thanks- another super search. The large bronze "wedge"- Were any cannon used in the seige, It looks like a wedge pin which locked the half round keep which retained the quoin on the barrel to the gun carriage . Or aternatively the wedge which retained the wheel on the axle of a large piece of equipment (gun, limber, or large wagon)
At 11mins. It is a lead seal, used in many trades to seal a shipped box. String would be passed through and then a plier type of tool with the tradesman's seals would crimp it.
The broken bronze bit is from a farm machine of sorts? And the counterweight has been tested and confirmed correct several times, hence the different stampings and all official counterweights had a lead plug or rivet to get the weight absolutely correct. Probably of Post Office origin. The silver band is probably from a walking stick and would have covered the joint between the handle and shaft. The big lead threaded plug, looks like a pressure safety plug of some kind, possibly steam age? Fantastic finds again as always. Got my sub and my wife is exploring your channel now! 😁👍👏👏👏👏🥃🥃 Cheers from downunda! 👋
Hi im a new subscriber. Ive looked at a lot of mettle detecting video's on TH-cam, 95% of them rubbish just watched 1 of yours, your very informative, and entertaining. 👍👍 Hello from Ireland.
Some cracking finds. As i predicted on my last comment I said hammered would turn up. The gallows field sounds really promising. Lots of people would come to watch the gory hangings. Well done again John 👍👍🥂
Very late to comment I know. I am watching this on my TV feed so felt strongly that I must post something to you and came to the laptop. Your instinct about the reddish pebbles fits perfectly with the engraved / chased cross on the large pebble for medieval church in the vicinity. I watch time team and they found similar things at the site of a medieval church. The Archaeologist said it was typical of a church. The Weights are usually made of Brass or Iron. Oh and at the reprise i saw the long strip of brass or bronze looks like part of a medieval horse harness bit.
What a fantastic day! All those relics, peculiar with beautiful patterns and gilding, coins galore and two very interesting rocks, well pebbles. I love collecting stones with the family, agates, geodes, lots of different metamorphic rocks, i found a nice Magnatite, thought it was a meteor at first, that bronze thing at 48:00 mins looks like some of the meteor fragments the Gem Rock Museum had, is it magnetic? I hope it is. Your videos are great man, your channel has grown loads, its no surprise with the effort you put in! Good job man
Thanks for the kind words. I do a little agate hunting too but don’t get much luck but at least the dog gets a walk 😆 The meteor like item alas isn’t a meteor but still! Happy hunting and best wishes John
think the stamped lead tube is a pigeon tag with owner's monogram. Looks Victorian. From a racing pigeon that never made it home perhaps. Wonder if there's an online archive of pigeon fancier's markers... Probably not
Just found your videos! How absolutely thrilling to hunt for and find all those amazing treasures of history! The gold gilded object looks like it could have been a belt buckle, but missing the back holding clasp, maybe victorian era? Just a thought..the tokens, stones, coins and small bell are spectacular! I’m a subscriber now!! Absolutely looking forward to watching and following your channel!! Beautiful day detecting in a beautiful place, thanks for all your great historical knowledge and sharing!!😃🪙
A smooth stone was used by traditional potters of Jutland, Denmark to decorate and "sheen" the surface. Another use could be for flattening seams on clothes. Or simply as a good keepsake in your pocket.
The big chunk of lead, you could see a circlet of another metal around the circular part. I would figure the lead is a stopper from a container of some hazardous material. Made of lead so that it could be re- hammered to re- engage the seal.
Two hand fulls of amazing finds!! 🤩Thinking the enameled ball had to a bell at one time given it had sections, but who knows. 🤔The gallows field sounds like a lot of fun to be had, in the daylight at least, it might be haunted with that past 👻
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That lead thing that you thought was a bird, looks just like a cow if you turn it 45 degrees. Great video as usual. You are my favorite TH-cam detector now!
Totally agree. Turned to the side, it looked more like a pig or cow.
I looked at the logo and thought it looked like the Rangers logo
Definitely 🐮
Same as I was thinking, except it's 90 degrees to the right.
Yep, that's what I saw too.
What sets you apart from the rest is your expertise in history and sharing the story, along with dating the finds! Awesome channel and new subscriber! Thank you!
Welcome to the channel Doug and I’m glad you enjoy. I’m a tour guide by trade so history is my thing!! Best wishes
Check his tiktok out!!
I like watching you. I also love hearing the history you share.
@@vickieoquin7498 thanks Vickie. Much appreciated!!
totally agree. hes a smart guy
1st 🥇☺️ don’t ever stop the videos mate best on TH-cam bar none!👌🏻👌🏻
Gold star for Mark ⭐️ thanks for the kind words. Enjoy the video! It’s a long one but a good one!!
Couldn’t agree more!
I agree
In my area of Montana we feel lucky to find something 100 years old. You have some awesome finds.
Many thanks Donald. Yes the date range of some of these finds is amazing
me too, i am so jealous. makes me not even want to bother going out. jewelry is the best thing we will find.
100 years is nothing
@@CannabrannaLammer There wasn’t anyone here much over 100 years ago that used metal. That is as far back as our history goes.
@@CannabrannaLammer perfectly illustrating his point
I'm sure in the back of my mind I watched a Time Team episode where coloured stones and marked stones where used as offerings in Romano Christian Britain, often thrown into ponds
I think you’re right and I think I saw the same one which is why I’m thinking the same thing!!
I have to tell you tlhow much I appreciate you taking the time to explain the coins and who was king at the time. This is becoming my favorite channel. Thank you!
Thanks for the kind words and I’m glad you enjoy the videos 🤩
I do hope you ran the detector over the mole hills before flattening them, moles bring up all manner of stuff from very deep underground, loving this series of videos BTW. Quartz pebbles were often used at medieval shrines as offerings, archaeologists get very excited when they find them out of their geological context as it often signals that they are close to a chapel or shrine site
That is very interesting, thank you for sharing!
I love your channel not just for the metal detecting but the history you share. Thank you.
The bronze item you found looks like an old Gib head key, used to secure a pulley onto a rotating shaft, the head is that specific shape for removal with a special wedge tool. I was an agricultural engineer in Dumfries area and these are very common but this is a very large item. Hope this is useful and sorry haven’t managed to see if anyone else has mentioned this. Keep up your good work and education for all.
Thanks for the great info! Many thanks
I only found your channel a few days ago and have been fascinated by both the artifacts that you are finding and by your commentary. What an amazing day you had. Those smooth stones may be palm stones, used in the same way as worry beads, perhaps. You are definitely going to be one of my favourite channels.
Welcome to the channel and I’m glad you are enjoying! We’ve had some great finds, and I agree with your identification, some kind of stone that was rubbed!! And maybe 6th or 7th century 😯
You have plenty to go through. Enjoy
Fascinating x
The lead tokens could be connected to potato harvesting as pickers would be given a token for each basket of spuds put on a cart to keep a tally to be paid at the end of the day.
Very extensive historical knowledge, you sprinkle dates, names of kings and detailed information about them which extremely enriches the value of your videos. Excellent channel.
The cow and sheep bag seal is "Liebigs extract of meat company" I have one the same. Interesting read on Wikipedia if you google it.
Thanks for the great info Jim. Much appreciated
Victoria Pennies were still being spent right up to decimalisation ... late 60s or early 70s. You'd get one in your change now and again... you might keep it or spend it
I had no idea!! Many thanks
Minute ‘36’ where you called yourself an idiot…. I spontaneously laughed out loud at work and got a couple stares my way. Looks like you’re not the only idiot.
Haha 😂
Great finds John . You had a great day. The curved brass bar is part of early twentieth century stirrup. Your silver at the end is the collar from a Victorian smoking pipe. Where the stem goes in to the bowl.
I've found a few now. They range to between 7mm to 15 mm wide. LB and DG are my most common makers Birmingham. There is a gallows hill near me . and two detectorist in the nineties found
Amazing collection of hammered coins token jettons . Ranging from 14th century to 17th century. Thank you for all your hard work and effort. Looking forward to seeing your next adventure many thanks wasp and Helen 🐝
Thanks for the great info. Much appreciated
Good comments Mr wasp 😊
You guys are so lucky. We are lucky to find a recognizable George the 3rd in America. And most of the time they are crunchy. Once in a blue moon we find pieces of eight.
01:12 Whaaaaawt? I can't believe the things you find over there. Being a Scottish descendant in the States I'm so excited to see things like this!
Much appreciated, yes we have some great permissions and we get some amazing finds! I always say Perthshire is the cradle of Scottish civilisation
A bit of a wild guess, could the decorated ball be a caged pendant? Leather or similar would be inserted in the grooves, knotted at the top and made long enough to go round the neck. The decorated and coloured finish seems to point to jewellery.
Or a perfume pomander?
The pebbles could be important, so Definitely keep an eye out for them, because there could have been an early Christian Shrine nearby. People used to bring pebbles with them to leave at shrines, symbolising leaving part of their soul there.
I remember them finding some at a shrine in Time Team once and saying it was a fairly common thing to do (I'll check on the title, but I think it's "A Saintly Site" - worth watching for the pebble bit) They were digging a leachte, an outdoor shrine at a chapel at a very early chapel on Mull. The village or castle may have had a shrine.
It's wishful thinking, yes, but I wouldn't be amazed. I'm intrigued, especially after the green stone with the cross.
A Saintly Site. It's here on TH-cam. Got to be about half an hour in, but it's worth watching the whole thing. It's such an early site, but it's worth knowing about in case you stumble across one.
Suggestion looks like maybe 5th or 6th century 🤩
@@thescottishdetectorist Anything's possible, or it could just be a spot where the tradition continued. Or I could be completely wrong, but those pebbles are certainly curious 😁
walking the camino, there is a spot in spain where people throw a stone on a pile of stones.... maybe it is something like that.
Just tuning in to see if you remembered to bring everything. 🤣Only kidding, I look forward to everything you share with us.
Sorry to disappoint Tony, not only did I remember everything but I even found some good stuff and used the stuff I normally forget to bring to clean it 😂 😆
I need more videos John. A car knocked me off my bike and broken neck and fractured skull.I was thinking about going out with the Equinox 600 now the weather has picked up, but in a collar for 6 weeks. I love your videos, finds and historical narration.
Looks like the hand brake from an old bicycle. Blessings.
Thanks David. Good suggestion
I love it when people explain the history. Awesome video
Thanks for the kind words and I’m
Glad you enjoy!!
I think the gilded item may be an opening handle for a small box. It looks as if one end of the oval ring may be hinged to lift up, and allow you to open the box . Great channel at a good pace .
I was watching a video of the excavation of a Roman grave in southern England earlier today. That piece of bronze you found looks similar to the clamps that secured the lid on the sarcophagus.
That little round decorative ball with the flur delis looks like the balls that hung on the very ancient priest robes . Plus slot of those little lead rounds look like templar markings
Thanks for that info Jan, I’ll look that up! Much appreciated
That ball was a BRILLIANT find, what an incredible piece of metal work.
It’s a cracker isn’t it. And imagine it red enamelled and silvered 😯
@@thescottishdetectorist Such a beautiful thing. I am an above average craftsman, and if you asked me to replicate that . . . well I COULD, but I doubt I could without many days work.
Even with a workshop set up to do the five or six different aspects, that represents a very serious amount of work. That wasn't something the average person owned, obviously. I expect it did have something in the way of a relic or say earth or a stone from Golgotha inside.
Like a bunch of comments, just found your channel and I’m hooked. Being from the USA I love the history from Ireland and the Scottish . It’s so interesting. You teach as you hunt. Outstanding
The piece of brass/ copper could possibly be part of a stirrup off a saddle. Great vids keep them up cheers from Australia
That was my thought also.
I'm 59 and don't care at all about podcasts and live streams but i enjoy your channel a lot. Keep it up and don't change a thing. Nothing good can come of AI , it scares me more than global warming and putins nukes. To be sure !
I love your commentary. Really appreciate your knowledge of history. Definitely one of my favorite channels. :-)
Amazing finds! Can't wait to see what else you dig up!
Maybe the stones were for sling shots .picked from somewhere else and used in battle in that area ,there a perfect size. love the long shanks coin you jammy dodger ,what a great day you had well done, Greetings from wales ,ive liked and subd .
You have all the charm of "The Detectorists." Lovely, fun, and most of all, really interesting! Cheers!
Lots of Bambi tracks, great finds and excellent historical oratory 🫡
Many thanks!! Catch you on the next 🦌
I have watched maybe three videos of yours so far…subbed after the first one and really loving your channel. I enjoy history and have ancestors from the UK, and am fascinated by the enormous history there. I live in Pennsylvania USA near Gettysburg so I see many people out in the fields here metal detecting, but have never done it myself. Now, I’m thinking about it more since watching your channel, looking forward to watching more!
Welcome to the channel Jo Anne. Many thanks and I’m glad you’re enjoying! Why don’t you see if there’s a local club that will take you out for a trial day? Or fly to Scotland and I’ll take you out for the day! Local might be cheaper 😂 let me know how you get on
@@thescottishdetectorist ohh, wouldn’t I love that! Even though more expensive, it would be great to learn from an expert AND have my feet on Scottish soil! It’s going on my bucket list 😁
Out of those two stones you showed earlier, the smaller one reminds me of a stone the Romans would hurl at opposing forces 😊.
Also ditch the metal probe from a friend and spend some time whittling some hard wood into a point for probing through plugs 😅.
It’s a brooch or concho your choice.
Much appreciated
As soon as i saw that Fleur de Lys 'Nut' the first thing that came to my head wa ...Falconry Bell...probably wrong,but a beautiful little find
Right enough
First time I’ve come across your site. 1st class. A touch of the historian about you too. I’m subscribing 👍
Thanks for the kind words Colin and I’m glad you enjoyed. Welcome to the channel and enjoy the back catalogue of videos!
The bird looks like a kingfisher sitting on a branch, and perhaps a much smaller egret/heron at 8 o'clock from the kingfisher.... but now I see the cow.
The two old stones are Mick and Keith. A tally is used for counting. Keep em c omming, great stuff!
Love what you did there! Lol 😂
Another awesome day John! Amazing finds, this is an amazing permission and I’m sure that the owners are very happy. Also, lots of deer tracks.
Wow quite a day! Very interesting stuff coming up, love that little possible bell thing.
Large square lead piece is I think a clack valve probably from a steam powered tractor or a pump.
Excellent vids👌
Much appreciated and thanks for that great info Patrick
Your big lump of lead reminds me of a high tiders fishnet weight, the high tiders are a disappearing Scottish group on the Outerbanks of north carolina, the tubular crimped lead is a bag seal for seed, I think not found any that type here. Ours are usually for string. High tiders are original settlers.
Perfect weather for detecting sir!!
Many thanks Jake
Great finds very interesting as usual and love this field that keeps on giving 👍🇨🇦
Many thanks Eva
Certainly not a boring day. Always makes for great listening, with more interesting finds. Nice work. Bless up bro 👊
Love the history lessons that go along with each find and could listen to you talk all day. Best of luck with growing your channel 😊
Many thanks is for your support and kind words
What an amazing permission and hopefully another on the way. It’s great to hear so much history alongside these digs. This is definitely one of the best detecting TH-cam channels ….And it’s becoming a friendly household wager to guess how many items you manage to drop on a dig (1point per drop) but also if you have your toothbrush (5 points) water bottle (5 points), headphones (10 points) and bonus smash if you forget your metal detector of 1000 points. 😂Talking of games; is it possible the Lead tokens are actually pieces from a game?
Thanks for the support and kind words! Much appreciated
You're just on fire this year so far! I hope it keeps on for you!! Make it a fabulous finds year!
Many thanks. A really great day and hopefully more to come
I believe your decorated round stone and small cross tokens are Knights Templar ! well done.
Many thanks Jonathan. Well I’m off to the museum with them tomorrow so we’ll hear what they think!! Can’t wait
Brilliant history lesson as always. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!! Best wishes and have a great weekend Samantha
Great hammered coin! This fields going to be awesome this year(prediction) enjoying the video
just found your channel and its brilliant.
That long lever thing looks like the trigger from an early matchlock musket.
Thanks MrB and welcome to the channel!
I think you are spot on with your identification! Part of a musket, which is amazing!!! 🤩
Enjoy watching through the back catalogue of videos!
Best wishes
John
Last year I found a smoking pipe stem with a thin band of silver around the part where the stem would of met the bowl of the pipe and your silver strip looks almost identical to the one I found. Could be one and congrats on the hammie mate
Many thanks for the info and for watching
What a day! Lots of different artefacts great video as always John thanks for sharing 👍
Glad you enjoyed it
Watching these videos before going out detecting is always a good way to hype oneself up 😅
Happy hunting my friend!!
In early Christian Ireland and Scotland pilgrims or just visitors often brought round quartz pebbles to shrines or holy sites so your rounded pebbles may be something similar 🤔. I also would like to say your “french ball” 😂 is a personal reliquary but that’s simply a guess. Lead at 42:20 is a pot mend im pretty sure 👍.
I think there’s something in that SDD. I’ve had a few suggestions it might be early Christian and I agree. Question is where is the holy site…. Maybe something else epic lies beneath the ground!!
@@thescottishdetectorist saw it on time team the other day and I thought about your strange stone. Wonder were they throwing them into the pond during prayer or something 🤷♂️ could have been the local “place if worship”
Amazing skill you have, I really enjoy the schooling I get watching your channel. Always loved Scottish history, then though genealogy I learned that Robert the Bruce, is my 11th great grandfather. Your knowledge in the things you find, and putting it in the times it was made, what was going on, absolutely amazing.
Thank you for your knowledge, time, and effort you put into your videos.
No he's not 😂🙄 almost every single person who does those stupid genealogy things claims to be Irish or Scottish royalty. It's embarrassing. You're American mate. Thought you were all patriotic? Stop desperately trying to cling to something you're not.
The stones are probably grave/votive offerings. I've seen a couple linked to Anglo-Saxon burials that were decorated with a primitive cross or some text, and smooth non-local stones being used in ancient British tribal burials.
As a American I use to think things I saw here from the 1800s was sooo old after visiting Europe that changed a lot. Can’t wait to go again! History is amazing
Well John, that is one amazing permission!! Can't wait for more finds. As my mother also was born in the Borders (Duns), I feel a real connection with your channel. Keep safe, keep detecting and much luck. Cheers, John.
Thanks John. Glad you’re enjoying
Blessings, my Scottish Detectorist friend. What a virtual Cornucopia of cool finds. As always, great content and an enjoyable and educational watch. Blessings, from the beautiful hills of Tennessee.
Thanks as ever and glad you enjoyed
Thanks- another super search. The large bronze "wedge"- Were any cannon used in the seige, It looks like a wedge pin which locked the half round keep which retained the quoin on the barrel to the gun carriage . Or aternatively the wedge which retained the wheel on the axle of a large piece of equipment (gun, limber, or large wagon)
You visit that field again! My goodness, what a great day!
Thanks James. A cracker of a day
At 11mins. It is a lead seal, used in many trades to seal a shipped box. String would be passed through and then a plier type of tool with the tradesman's seals would crimp it.
Many thanks David. Much appreciated!!
The broken bronze bit is from a farm machine of sorts? And the counterweight has been tested and confirmed correct several times, hence the different stampings and all official counterweights had a lead plug or rivet to get the weight absolutely correct. Probably of Post Office origin. The silver band is probably from a walking stick and would have covered the joint between the handle and shaft. The big lead threaded plug, looks like a pressure safety plug of some kind, possibly steam age? Fantastic finds again as always. Got my sub and my wife is exploring your channel now! 😁👍👏👏👏👏🥃🥃 Cheers from downunda! 👋
Thanks for all the great info Tony and welcome to you and your wife to the channel
Brilliant video finds and chat ❤ field of dreams
The @12:00 lead seemed like a sort of crimp or seal. The reverse looked like a cow to me. I'm only to @13:00, so I might have to comment again. LOL
Hi im a new subscriber. Ive looked at a lot of mettle detecting video's on TH-cam, 95% of them rubbish just watched 1 of yours, your very informative, and entertaining. 👍👍 Hello from Ireland.
You had quite a day. Nice finds and it is nice you know history, too. Lucky to have such a site to search. Enjoyed from Italy, thanks.
Many thanks Dave. Much appreciated
I like the history interpreted by the coins. Another way to study history by the money after trade in goods alone.
Many thanks Kathryn and I’m glad you’re enjoying !!
I’ve seen similar to the ball, it opens out to form a cross!
Think your knowledge of history makes your finds more interesting john and your enthusiasm on coins is very entertaining 😂 keep it up
Many thanks Stephen have a great weekend
Some cracking finds. As i predicted on my last comment I said hammered would turn up. The gallows field sounds really promising. Lots of people would come to watch the gory hangings. Well done again John 👍👍🥂
Fingers crossed I can get on that soon
Very late to comment I know. I am watching this on my TV feed so felt strongly that I must post something to you and came to the laptop. Your instinct about the reddish pebbles fits perfectly with the engraved / chased cross on the large pebble for medieval church in the vicinity. I watch time team and they found similar things at the site of a medieval church. The Archaeologist said it was typical of a church. The Weights are usually made of Brass or Iron. Oh and at the reprise i saw the long strip of brass or bronze looks like part of a medieval horse harness bit.
Absolutely brilliant vid didn’t even make a brew , the permission of dreams, keep that content coming fantastic 👍
Thanks Mark. Glad you enjoyed and happy hunting
You have such heavy history in Scotland and get wonderful finds !!! I live in Canada on the prairies and find bottle caps lol
On the bit of lead it’s either a sheep or a cow. I can’t believe you can’t see that LOL
Your videos are fantastic sir and that permission is amazing! Thanks for the content!
Much appreciated and many thanks 😊
I like that bell thing COOL
Glad you enjoyed Glenda. Possibly a hawking bell!
What a fantastic day! All those relics, peculiar with beautiful patterns and gilding, coins galore and two very interesting rocks, well pebbles. I love collecting stones with the family, agates, geodes, lots of different metamorphic rocks, i found a nice Magnatite, thought it was a meteor at first, that bronze thing at 48:00 mins looks like some of the meteor fragments the Gem Rock Museum had, is it magnetic? I hope it is.
Your videos are great man, your channel has grown loads, its no surprise with the effort you put in! Good job man
Thanks for the kind words. I do a little agate hunting too but don’t get much luck but at least the dog gets a walk 😆
The meteor like item alas isn’t a meteor but still! Happy hunting and best wishes
John
@thescottishdetectorist I was a bit bummed out when my stone wasn't a meteor, it was magnetic and all 😁
what a great mix of finds john love the little ball, until the next one cheers
How fascinating it would be to excavate in a grid. Imagine the finds!
I would say the brass ball is a falconry bell used on falcons to hear them when they hit prey.
I thought that, too!
think the stamped lead tube is a pigeon tag with owner's monogram. Looks Victorian. From a racing pigeon that never made it home perhaps. Wonder if there's an online archive of pigeon fancier's markers... Probably not
Thanks for the info, I shall investigate further!!
wrote that before I heard it might be cows stamped on it... so probably a cow or bull ear tag
Just found your videos! How absolutely thrilling to hunt for and find all those amazing treasures of history! The gold gilded object looks like it could have been a belt buckle, but missing the back holding clasp, maybe victorian era? Just a thought..the tokens, stones, coins and small bell are spectacular! I’m a subscriber now!! Absolutely looking forward to watching and following your channel!! Beautiful day detecting in a beautiful place, thanks for all your great historical knowledge and sharing!!😃🪙
Brilliant video and well done too Simon lovely silver 😊
I’m glad he came up with something good and Martyn too. Makes the trip all worth while!!
A smooth stone was used by traditional potters of Jutland, Denmark to decorate and "sheen" the surface. Another use could be for flattening seams on clothes. Or simply as a good keepsake in your pocket.
Phenomenal Day! I think I would have to pitch a tent and stay a while. Congratulations on your fantastic finds!
You and me both!! I’m desperate to get back on and will very soon!!
The big chunk of lead, you could see a circlet of another metal around the circular part.
I would figure the lead is a stopper from a container of some hazardous material. Made of lead so that it could be re- hammered to re- engage the seal.
Hey John! I’m pretty positive that reference I emailed over explains those lead tokens! Good finds!
Thanks James. Apologies for the slow reply, I was actually just reading it this evening. Much appreciated
Great finds ,great video, really is a special permission John 🤞, great start to the NY 👍
Many thanks Hazel.
Great videos just joined I go metal detecting myself and love it we'll keep it all the best Dave
The lead square topped thing with the rounded plug bit underneath looks like a very old bottle or flaggen stopper to me, just a guess.
That's a great hammered, sir! I've never seen an Edward 1st!
What a wonderful selection of finds and an enjoyable video. Keep em coming please.
Thanks Stephen. Glad you enjoyed. A really great day and hopefully more to come
Two hand fulls of amazing finds!! 🤩Thinking the enameled ball had to a bell at one time given it had sections, but who knows. 🤔The gallows field sounds like a lot of fun to be had, in the daylight at least, it might be haunted with that past 👻
Thanks as ever Jennifer
Really enjoyed that and the history too about the site. You are treading in the footsteps of William Wallace.
Glad you enjoyed it