I’m back with a BANG! 💥 EPIC new Permission destroyed by Braveheart!
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- After almost two weeks it’s teat to be back on the fields of Perthshire!! Here’s hoping the weather continues to stay milder.
Today on a fort site that was captured and destroyed by non other than William Wallace aka Braveheart!!
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Great finds John! The property owners are very fortunate to have you searching this site. Your integrity is of the highest degree and that is so important with this type of work. They will be very happy with your results as we are! Thanks for bringing us along , can’t wait to see what’s ahead!
Thanks Greg. Definitely trust is a major part of detecting. Some landowners don’t care what you find others are very protective. Don’t get me wrong I’d love to find a million pound hoard but I don’t do it to make money, I detect for the thrill and the footage!! If I have to hand over everything to the landowner that’s fine for me and even better if it has been in their family for generations
Im an American who is obsessed with Scottish culture , visiting Glasgow in February . Thanks for sharing your work
You’ll have an amazing time I’m sure!! Enjoy and safe trip!
You might need an interpreter
lang may yer lum reek
Just don't say purple burglar.
Glaswegian culture is an oxymoron.
So happy your the one to get this site John. Your definately the best person to get it as your a very honest and transparent detectorist. Can't wait to see the finds you uncover from it
Thanks for the kind words Patricia.
Hopefully more goodies to come
From this site!!
I learned from my grandfather how to make a ring by holding a coin on its edge and hammering it as you rotate it. It makes a very distinctive pattern and I recognized it right away. He learned it in the military and I made a few while I was in the US Airforce. Done right it will split the coin down the middle sort of and the legend and date will be inside the ring. Then you cut out the center when you get it to size. I made my friends wedding ring that way. It apparently was a thing soldiers do going back a long time.
Thanks for that info Rex much appreciated and best wishes for 2023
Omgosh... Not only learn so much history about Scotland, but, get to be excited about the treasure you will find!!!
Thanks Poppy. Glad you’re enjoying
Awesome John, a nice dig today, a little bit of everything, PLUS this excitement of your new permission and it having a great historical site. I am excited for you and will be for all your digs here. I would love to sit on a rise with a view of the fort area and watch a panorama of the last 1000 years go by, I think of this often when I am at interesting places. On to the next...
Thanks OB. I wish I could show you all the view from the fort because it’s pretty spectacular even 400yrs after it’s demise. Easy to see the layout and how it would have all worked
Don't know if anybody chimed in on the coin you found at the 12:00 mark but I would like to add that it appears that it was in the beginning stages of being hammered round the edge to be made into a ring. Usually done with softer metal coins like silver, but can be done with others, too.
Thanks for that info, very interesting and much appreciated
These are brilliant videos John. So refreshing that you bring such historical knowledge of the landscape to broaden the entertainment.
Thanks for the kind words Ian and I’m glad you enjoyed!! Have yourself a wonderful New Year and hopefully see you back watching in the early New Year!! Best wishes to you and yours for a healthy and prosperous 2023!
@@thescottishdetectorist Happy New Year to you too John & a healthy & prospecting one !
Good to see you back out doing what you do best finding and sharing with us your historical artefacts and copious knowledge on them. Have a happy Christmas and looking forward to seeing what the new permissions bring
Thanks for the kind words David have a great Christmas and see you on the next dig
You must be on top of the moon about this new field to dig. I love the finds, those musket balls are epic. Well done, John!
Thanks James, I’ve actually gut another with even more potential I’m hoping to get on soon!!
Did you find out what your hammered coin was? Was it Edwardian?
I have had great permissions, Battle of bara (Robert the Bruce), William Wallace camp site, a few other battlefields, A few castle grounds and didn't find anything great.
I’ve been there Kevin. I’ve had permissions near Battle of Sherrifmuir, battle of Killiekrankie, battle of Nechtasmere and found heehaw 😂 that’s detecting I suppose
Subscribed-Interesting content and a voice thats a pleasure to listen too.
Thanks John and welcome aboard. Much appreciated have a great new year
The .303 cartridge may be Canadian. DC: Dominion Cartridge Co. Z: Nitro-cellulose propellant. 40: 1940 is the date of manufacture.
Thanks Swagger. That’s great info. Much appreciated
Don't be throwing shade on William Wallace. My dear Granny will come back from the grave and haunt you! As a boy of four I went to live with my grandparents in sunny California. Every day I heard how wonderful Scotland, the Scots and all things Scottish are. And...........how horrible the B....y English were. 😃 Marion Wallace, born in Ayr in 1887 and came to America in 1897. Fiercly proud of her heritage.
Jeepers!
It was a wee bit chilly up there then?
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Same down this way too...really chilly, then, warm into the new year. Nothing as chilly as that though.
weird
Never apologize for rambling. Your rambling is an education for us Yankees. I just had a video from Dig Dan thrown at me by YT. He doesn’t have your knowledge base and lacks your ability to flourish in facts and he’s lacking your unique sense of humor. It’s your gift of gab that makes your following so successful and continuing to grow…30.7k today. Blessings from Tennessee.
Enjoy your videos but you seem tae forget that in the 1600's Scotland was still an independent country but we only shared a king fae 1603 so Britain/Great Britain did not exist even wi Cromwell's invasion.
I have identified where Bonnie Prince Charlie buried his gold coins, but the landowner won't allow me to dig. What can i do?
If you pass me on the co-ordinates I’ll contact the landowner on your behalf for a one third share 😆 happy new year 🥳
Ah... hand grenades are an outer, hollow shell filled with explosive and detonator. Hope you were careful when you washed that thing
Your steel ball at 30 mins is a socket from the lifting arms on the 3 point linkage of a tractor
Many thanks!! Glad it’s not a hand grenade
the lead wedges look like the pour hole of a moulder cast.maybe from making musket balls?
What a cracking video. I enjoy watching Aqua Chigger in the states and I think I am going to enjoy your channel. Subbed.👍👍
Many thanks and welcome to the channel. Hope to see you on the next video
The grenade looks like a ball from a tractors 3 point linkage... Unless it was lead in the middle? Great vid 👍🏼
Much appreciated fingers crossed 🤞
Nice one....love the hammered.... must be more 😁
Thanks Chill Bill. I’ve been following you for ages!! I appreciate you commenting and Merry Christmas 🎅🏻
That little white porcelain thingy is a paint palette/container.
Love your channel, and I’m able understand you when you speak. I’ve had some difficulty with some channels from England even though I speak English living in the states.
You are so knowledgeable in everything especially your commentary when it comes to history.
Thanks for the kind words and I’m glad I’m understandable!! Much appreciated… maybe it’s your undiscovered Scottish ancestry gives you an ear for my accent!! 👂
Hi John where about on your site is buy me a coffee, you certainly deserve a couple but I can't find it please let me know regards, John what a great name it is
Many thanks.
If you go to my TH-cam profile (click on my channel name) then scroll to the right… you’ll see ‘videos’ …. ‘Shorts’…. ‘Live’ …. Etc and on the far right ‘about me’
Under about me you’ll find my link to buy me a coffee ☕️
Much appreciated and never expected
Many thanks.
If you go to my TH-cam profile (click on my channel name) then scroll to the right… you’ll see ‘videos’ …. ‘Shorts’…. ‘Live’ …. Etc and on the far right ‘about me’
Under about me you’ll find my link to buy me a coffee ☕️
Much appreciated and never expected
Do people come bother you about permission? In your commments? Smh
I would get on that creek bank with a weed eater,then go at it.Cheers!
Thanks Tim. On the to do list that’s for sure! Many thanks
I love this..I'm so glad I've found you. I enjoyed history & you are amazing with it.
Cnt waitvto settle down in bed then I watch. Thankyou for sharing xx
could it be a George the 3rd cartwheel penny? They had a raised rim.
Just subscribed 👍
DC40...Could be the Washington Armoury / 1940 maybe?
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Wow that would be great
Didn't William Wallace wear rounded buttons on the tartan he wore over his shoulder?
Sometimes they would have some decorated button but normally a ring brooch
@@thescottishdetectorist Thank you.
How do you get permission for this site mate?
I know the farmer through a mutual friend and it isn’t a scheduled monument, I did my research, got some aerial pictures and history, met the farmer and then gave him everything I found
You mentioned when talking about Cromwell in 1695 Great Britain but that was formed in 1707 after the act of union was it not
Yes Andrew, you’re right I regularly fluff that one! My tiny brain oft gets confused between the Union of the crowns 1603 and Union of the countries 1707…. But regularly I correct myself mid sentence but not always!
Many thanks 😊
Just love your optimism laddie,, " oh well, might have been William Wallaces button"
Haha 😂 gotta look on the bright side 😆
More amazing history and a new field to start out the year! Hope you continue to find lots of goodies! Mike in sunny Florida
Many thanks Mike!! May you have a great 2023
Hit a significant jackpot this year already
YAY , must say I listened to this video while working... 100% loved it Thanks :)
Thanks David, see you on the next
The small horseshoe could have been an oxen shoe.
You might be right!!
the lead at 47 minutes looks like when you cast an item in a mould, the square bit being the filling side and the little point is where the molten material goes into a mould and was joined onto the item that was cast... just my opinion ive done a fair bit of ring casting..
Thanks for that great information. Best wishes for 2023!
Nice permission, good luck around there. 🤩 Fantastic crop marks.
Many thanks 😊
Realy interesting videos, so much history locked away in a paddock. The whole of Europe seems to be the Mecca for metal detector's
We have some fantastic fields and are so lucky that we have such incredible history and archaeology in our country!
The hole in King George 6pense was made for the coin to be hidden within clothing.
Thanks for the info Eric! Never knew that
Interesting I also heard people strung them like a pendant….
I’m from Perthshire, I know that field very well
Shh 🤫 it’s our secret 🤐
@@thescottishdetectorist mum’s the word
Can we just sack York already
Haha 😂
This site potentially could have from WWII back to the Bronze Age. Very exciting detecting! Were those crop marks showing round buildings? And if so, how old would those be? They look like Iron Age huts in Dorset.
Este vídeo foi editado e postado, então a suposta granada não explodiu e você está em segurança. 😂 Great vídeo.
Still unsure if it is a grenade or not but it’s sitting downstairs for now. 😂 we’ll see what happens!
⚔️💪😎🏴🎄🧑🎄(stroke)
Thanks Tom and merry Christmas 🎅🏻
Another great video as always John nice new permission lots of history and some lovely finds great stuff keep up the hard work mate 👍
I certainly enjoyed this very historic site! And I have ancestors from there that go back to the 1200s. So it makes it even more fascinating! Thanks Kindly and Many Blessings with Great Luck there in the future! I’ll be watching and I certainly subscribed! DaveyJO in Pennsylvania
Hope you’re coming for a visit
@@thescottishdetectorist it’s the one place on earth I want to visit more than any other. And being a detectorist here in south east Pennsylvania I’ve found several dozen King George II and IIIs. The earliest being 1729 and a half dozen Spanish reales. And as you well know, for every good thing there is a pouch of foil, pull tabs, bottle caps and mixed junk. But it’s worth it all. I so much enjoy your adventures and want to see you find those museum artifacts. Thanks Kindly Brother and Many Blessings! DaveyJO in Pennsylvania
How do you go out to detect and forget your detector, brush and water bottle? 🤣 Next youll forget your van 🤣🤣
Tomorrow I’ll probably be driving to the fields and realise I forgot the van 🚐 😂
An addictive hobby , I tried it a few years ago but someone borrowed my detector and never returned it !? That site is great with a rich history obviously good luck with it !
Thanks David. Yes, lots and lots of potential here, fingers crossed lots of good stuff to come!!
Could the copper discs with a lead deposit on the back be bullets that have hit steel? Maybe they had an old tank to shoot at?
I’ll need to have a look at them again and see what I make of them. Thanks for the suggestion and happy new year
Looking foreward to your next visit there.
Nicely done I enjoyed the video, will catch you on the next one. 🇺🇸
Thanks Fred! Next video just uploaded. Enjoy!
Hurry back!!! I was searching your coins as you were digging them up. Your history was spot on. Struggling with the five though
Oops I meant dice not five
You really know your History. Lucky too.😊
Many thanks, much appreciated
I just noticed something. I watch a lot of UK area detecting videos. All you guys say 303 or 22 caliber when you find a bullet. Unless it’s a shot gun shell. Is that the only calibers you guys had or y’all just guessing?
Where I am generally the bullet calibres are either of those two, but there are sometimes other types but we don’t have much in the way of firearms
Hello from a very very cold East Tennessee USA. Great video I would spend as much time as I could on that site. There is gold and more silver in those fields. That’s just my opinion for what it’s worth. Stay safe and have a great holiday season. Keep looking it’s there somewhere.
Many thanks Steve. Have a great Christmas and see you on the next dig!!
This is the start John .......................Birth of something special me thinks . H
Fingers crossed Hazel!!
i have forgot the basic things myself a few times . So the day before i go out i now charge everything and check and double check that i have everything and put it by the front door.
Honestly John I don’t know what’s going on with my brain these days! 😆
Subbed, thanks pal.
Welcome aboard Richard and many thanks! Best wishes for 2023
“Big potato head” 😂🥔
Haha 😂 thanks and happy new year 🥳
"unbridled enthusiasm" I am surprised you got yourself out of the house... Cheers!
Many thanks and have a great new year!! Best wishes, John
Nice finds ! That is an epic permission ! Looking forward to your next hunt. Merry Christmas !
Many thanks and Merry Christmas to you too!
White disk is a paint pan.
Many thanks. Much appreciated and best wishes for 2023
One of the videos I watched you found a lead Owl. I would say Folk Art or being as Owls have more superstition around them than feathers, it could be a talisman. It would not be a very solid Cane Topper, but something to ward off evil I can certainly see.
With you forgetting things to take with you, I can empathize. I'm a Fly Fisher with a board of stuff. One day I was driving by an outside Trash Bin when I saw a brand new Drum Cart lying beside it. Sort of like one of those "Pull behind you," carts like a Golf bad. It still had the cardboard labels. I use it to hold all of my fishing stuff in my car. If I grab it, I have everything I own and need! With your stuff try an old Golf bag. You can buy used ones cheap, all of your stuff will fit in it and get yourself an adaptor/charger you can attach to your car battery and then you can charge your coil from your car.
Thanks for the tips Kerry, much appreciated and have a great new year
In Ireland it's against the law to detect anywhere near a historical sites. You don't know how Lucky you are.By the way my name is Paul from Dublin Ireland.My mams name will probably be attached. But I haven't missed one of your videos ever. You have a great knowledge and I have learned alot from you.
Much appreciated Paul. I’m glad you’re enjoying. Yes we are very lucky and have some great permissions too. Even more great permissions to come so fingers crossed some epic finds to come in 2023!! Best wishes and happy new year
Just subscribed. What a permission, most of us detectorists can only dream about. Good luck, mate.
Many thanks and welcome aboard! And merry Christmas
I am hoping that, at some point, John talks about what the practice is with the tinfoil and cans and stuff we would consider rubbish. It would be a kindness, to other detectorists, to take them home and recycle them properly. However, it stuck me that a lot of the stuff John finds (and likes) are the 'tin cans' of five hundred years ago. If what we consider rubbish is removed - does that mean future detectorists will think they are the first humans? Will there be any trace of us in the soil? Will there be a 'dark ages' made of the 1970s?
And when did we become interested in finding and seeing the traces of our ancestors? Were their any Neanderthals etc. with similar fascinations? Apart from, perhaps, revering something that had passed down in a tangible way like the items in a shrine or burial place? Were their any that were digging specifically to look for signs of earlier hominids?
Oh dear hope Sneaky John get a Christmas
Gift to help with his memory to things not
To forget to detect with. New permission
Looks very promising, an it would be a really
Good idea to check the stream. Now today
Its only getting brighter day by day Pagan
Word in Danish for Christmas are Jul
Celebrating the time stops getting darker
Merry Jul to your family 😜🔝❤️
Merry Jul Toni! Hopefully Santa has some epic gifts lined up for me, I’ve been an awful good boy
When farmers couldn't afford horses or needed extra help in the fields they'd use oxon.
Very true!!
29:44 - looks like a hand grenade to me mate... Stay safe pal 👍
Just in case I’ve put it in the glovebox of my wife’s car 🚗 😂
Hi At 13.05 for me it's a coin transformed into a game puck.
You never know!
, studying the area is essential for research, I would try a scan with geo radar, it could give good results.
Great video.
Happy searching.
Udine - ITALIA
I’d love it if I had geophysics equipment, maybe one day if the channel takes off!!
get on with it
😉
Could that be a Russian cap badge sickle and star John.?
I thought it could be Doug and someone else has suggested the same!
New sub here great channel fab finds and I too also find that keeping It real is the best policy regarding filming what you find
Welcome to the Channel and many thanks
What an amazing historical place to detect around. 🎉 Glad to see you (and Gorgeous George) back out there 🏰🕺😂
Haha 😂 thanks Jennifer 🕺
What a trip to have permission on a field had so much old old history upon it and knowing it
You need an "I'm going detecting" bag near the door. Make sure everything's ready to go when you've got home, then just pick it up when you're heading out! The only thing you'll forget then is the bag...or the metal detector...😉
Could've sworn I'd already watched this one, but nope. I'm forgetful as well!
Thanks Nikki! My New Years resolution is to be less forgetful!! Have a great new year
Love watching your vids, actual good finds, not some american going crazy over finding a 1947 silver dime with 300million minted and making a video out of it 🤣
Thanks Jake. I suppose it’s horses for courses. You can only find what’s available in your country to find. If I was in the USA I’d still get excited over finding coins regardless of age… I’m just east pleased 😂
@@thescottishdetectorist thats true, i still get annoyed watching some of the videos where its clickbait saying theyve found treasure and its a 1965 nickel... Im sure you and i could both go outside in ANY country and find coins like that daily 🤣🤣 im allowed to like higher quality content!! Hahaha 😁
@@rfbftp123 I try and avoid the click bait as best I can, whatever I post I try and have some relevance to the site or finds, but others may disagree!!
Edward the 3rd has that same design around him there’s a chance it could be a Edward 3rd half groat I found a eddy groat which has the design around it like that
You could be right that it’s a Edward 3rd groat like I found I know the legend is missing so it’s highly possible if you get a coin pod like they sell on eBay they have a measurement part that helps a lot for scale. Never a bad day when a hammy comes up congrats
Thanks Dave. Yes it appears to be a half groat of Edward III and yes it’s a bit tired but they all count and as you say nothing better than getting a hammered coin!! Have a great new year! Best wishes for 2023! John
@@thescottishdetectorist hi John I agree my last hammered was a Henry Viii groat with bits of the legend broken away it’s not in great condition and must have been debased due a level of green and brown staining that would not come off so I used electrolysis to gently remove it revealing Henry’s face clearly but I’m still buzzing as it was a bucket lister for me. Happy new year and more hammereds for 2023 🤞🏻
53:40 part of electrical insulator.
Damn it!! But thanks
No, it’s not a part of an electrical insulator. It’s a little bowl for watercolour painting. Greetings from Germany
Charles 11 I think very nice
That would be great if it was!! 🤩
Love ya videos but ya watching to much of west country clegg i thought this was going to be a great video but i find more in the feild beind my house and ya told every 1 were you were at the intro so everyone in Scotland knows where you are mate stop watching cleggy hes head is full off magic his flo has barred his number lol 😆
Thanks for the kind words DD! If this to your is a bad day you should be changing your name to Indiana Jones!
@@thescottishdetectorist lol 😆 honest pal never meant anything with the comments just noticed ya saying cleggys sayings epic relics lol that man has lost the plot ya smashing it up your way bud keep it up mate
@@thescottishdetectorist just noticed i never meant bad day when saw thumbnail i thought yad found willam walles.s sword lol great hammered coin bud 👍
Fingers crossed Wallace’s sword on the next dig! No worries my man! Have a great Christmas 🎅🏻
I'm from Perth and love our local history. Always been interested with the idea of metal detecting since we have so many sites in the area connected to Scottish history.
Have you ever tried the site near Kinclaven where Wallace attacked the castle there? There are still some ruins there.
The area around Bertha would have been interesting to scan before they started building houses.
Hi there, yes I often say Perthshire is the cradle of civilisation! Lots of amazing sites.
Kinclaven is a scheduled monument so off limits and now the diggers are in at Bertha I think that’s also off limits, but I thinks there‘a roman sites there too and Iron Age
@The Scottish Detectorist ah unfortunate but understandable with the castle. Yeah Bertha camp obviously, I believe that was investigated a few times in the early 1900s but never since. The area of woodland at Bertha was such fun to explore before the diggers got in and overflowing with wildlife. I think they found an iron age settlement whilst working on the new area for the bridge and had archaeologists in for a couple of weeks.
I guess anything recorded on OS maps is difficult to gain access to? There are a few iron age areas on Old Gallows Road passed the golf driving range. The land there seems used for horses mostly but rarely used in my times walking there.
If I was a landowner I'd say on ya go!
I'd be fascinated to see what lies in the Sma Glen along the old military road route.
Enjoying all the live digs👍congratulations on the exciting new permission - lots more to come from there. Slainte 🍻
Cheers Jim. Much appreciated. See you on the next and if it’s not until after Christmas have a great one!
Clucking bell John this video is a masterpiece 😲
Thanks Mr Clegg…. Hope you liked my CGI imagery 🕺 all done from my phone as usual 😂
Absolutely amazing! I could only wish the US had this kind of history.
I agree. I live close to Seattle. Not gonna find much history around here!!!
Thanks Aaron much appreciated have a great Xmas
Potato head George hahaha He lost the Americas and his mind. lol Love the history and the finds. This damned Yank loves your adventures and this great new permission that I forecast will produce double gold in 2023 ??????? Hopefully my prediction falls way short of the treasures to come. Merry Christmas to you, the fellas and your family and friends. Peace!
I’ll hold you to that 🤩 even just one bit would do me fine!! I’m nit greedy. Have a great Christmas
Going Way back in History Scotland Ireland and England are older parts of My Family History. Watching things like this makes Me feel more connected to the land and History. Thanks
Glad you enjoyed! See you on the next!
I seen that penny, l was hoping you got it out😊. Great video 😊
Thanks again for the great video work and sharing your finds
Much appreciated thanks Marc
Fine, I'll come help you dig those permissions. Just stop BEGGING! 🙃
Haha 😆
Defacing an image of "the" monarch is treason.
Great finds 👍 I can tell your excited to be out again 😂
I bet your subscription goes up on or after Christmas with all the people that will have new metal detectors.
Fingers crossed! Much appreciated
Hi John, yep 2nd coin George 2nd half penny, I found my first exactly the same a couple of weeks ago, hammered for some reason. I was told not uncommon but it’s the first time I’ve found like that with the raised edge. Would also be interested to find out why? Thanks for the upload!👍
Congratulations on the coin. I’ve had a few Georgian coins like this over the years that have been pressed to give that raised edge but really don’t know why. A weight? A gaming piece? Hard to tell
George III = Mr. Potato Head
Definitely 😆 🥔