Rainy Day Relic Hunting in Evesham: Surprising Finds!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
- Hey everyone! Despite the rain, I had an awesome day relic hunting in Evesham and uncovered some really cool finds. Thanks so much for checking out the video! If you enjoyed it, don’t forget to hit that like button-and if you’re into metal detecting and historical discoveries, please consider subscribing for more adventures. Your support means a lot, thank you!
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FFMC! Love the horse 🐎
Thank you!
I believe the 2 market tokens stamped with a 3 say CHARLTON along the bottom. The ornate hook has me stumped too; I'd also like to call it a bag or sword hook, but where are the attachment points to the belt or saddle? The hook on my sword belt from my time in service was a much less elaborate affair fashioned out of very thick wire so as to be able to easily catch a sheathe ring when hanging the sword and I don't know how easily that would have caught, but it is also badly misshapen from its time in the earth so I could easily be off the mark. It could be a piece of hardware off of horse tack, though I could not tell you specifically what part it would be. The horse is probably early 20th century--if it feels hollow, like it has a void inside, that would likely point towards a 20th century origin as hollow, spin cast lead figures were introduced by W Britain's in the early 20th century to make them cheaper to make and ship (though the technology is older and originates in Great Britain with the production of small arms ammunition in the 1860s). The code is FFMC31A3A525, this is well outside of my area of expertise but I think your suggestion that it is a bird ring is accurate. Somewhere there is a falconer bereft of his falcon, I suppose.
GEV your legend, you have made my day putting the code from the bird ring!! The horse isn't hollow feels too heavy but I do think your right with it being 20th! The tokens do say Charlton I had a proper look after recording the vid 👍 Think I will put the hook thing in front of the local finds liaison officer see what she thinks, the lack of attachment points stood out to me too!!
@@LostandFoundRelicCollecting You're most welcome, keep posting them! Oh, and the cartridge stump at the start of the video is probably a .303 British case that has suffered a rupture/case head separation. .303 British is notorious for having a weak point about a half inch above the rim of the cartridge (the ledge that sticks out at the bottom) and this can tear when one is trying to extract the cartridge after it has been fired, leaving the remnants of the case in the firing chamber to jam up whatever firearm did the firing. Often this means one has to dig out a special tool to extract the bit of metal lodged in the chamber, though there are field-expedient options too that are much faster than this miserable operation. In this case, (pardon the pun) it looks like an actual rupture-- during the First World War in particular, the quality of small arms ammunition was highly variable due to the rush to produce so very much of it and the fact that a highly precise standard for .303 British had yet to be fully agreed on as the standards organizations for firearms ammunition had yet to come into existence. What this meant was that dud or structurally unsound cartridges were more common than generally desired. Happily, Lee Enfield rifles (like most or all military bolt actions) have ports cut in them to vent gases spilling from a case rupture in a safe direction and away from the shooter's face.
Imagine having to fire your weapon without the confidence it wasn't going to blow up in your face!! 🫣
@@LostandFoundRelicCollecting There are a lot of safety features built into many of the early bolt-action battle rifles like the Lee Enfield, some of which are not readily apparent. These designs date to the very beginning of the transition from black powder to smokeless powder (or in the case of the Lee Enfield, pre-date it) and that switch meant that the pressures in the cartridges being used increased massively-- and so at least some thought had to be given to operator safety for those occasions in which a cartridge suffered a critical failure. We have a lot of knowledge today that was simply not available to our predecessors, so it's much easier to use things like vintage service rifles safely... though accidents do happen. People are people, after all.