Glad you got your finds back from the FLO.. and as you say.. you will get them back eventually... I found a bronze age flanged palstave style axe head on new years eve 2019.. showed it the farmer who said he would have dismissed it as a piece of farming machinery!..I told him it's a bucket list dream find for any detectorist, and explained I have to report & hand it in.. which I did. After a month or so, I got an email from the FLO which I could print out for my personal record, it turned out to date from 1800 to 1500 BC which I find incredible!. As a detectorist yourself, I think we all picture.. or try to picture the last person who had this item in his / her possession. My flo covers two counties Notts & Derbyshire so had my find for three years, but I recently got in touch and she replied that even though my find is still awaiting validation.. I can now have it returned to me.. I pick it up this coming Saturday 25th January :) . Enjoyed the vid going through your finds and that Celtic Gold Stater! :) when you found that I bet you was absolutely stunned! :)
Well I think bucket list is an understatement in the case of a bronze age axe head, absolutely amazing find, congratulations!! That's what I love about the hobby, the finds are great but the history and stories that are behind them are even more special! Thanks for tuning in again, really appreciate it Peter! 👍
Congratulations to you on the gold stater!!... because that to me, is a bucket list find of a lifetime in it's own right!!.. I have always had a fascination in wanting to finding things / looking up the history of said finds... It is something I have loved doing from the age of about 8 or 9 yrs old... walking across farmers fields and finding the odd George lll coin or finding clay pipe bowls, ( I have a Victorian / Edwardian collection of ginger beer bottles / pot lids / Codd bottles / poison & medicine bottles / match strikers etc.) I guess you could say I'm a magpie for histories lost treasures.. ATB in finding histories treasures in 2025 .
See this is why it would be useful if they still gave the info sheet with your finds! 😁 Appreciate the alternative suggestions I shall have a look into the Ambiani further. 👍 Thanks for being here 👊
I got my Dad a denarius and a couple of antonianii for Christmas a few years ago. The oldest was from around 100 AD I think; prior to that the oldest coin in his collection was a penny minted in our home province in Canada from the 1840s. It's really neat to find coinage that ancient; it makes you wonder how long it was in circulation before it went into the ground, and whose hands it had passed through. That gold Celtic coin is a real treasure though, what a beautiful find. I hear you on that sense of disappointment from having one's hopes of finding something really significant dashed. The closest I have come is getting cited in a provincial archaeologist's report for helping to identify a bunch of markings on some rifles pulled off the bottom of the ocean off Newfoundland.
That's pretty cool to have the expertise to be able to advise archaeologists!!! Agreed on the Celtic coin, pretty special find considered a once in a lifetime, I plan on many more though! 😁 Keep an eye out for the competition and with a bit of luck I will be shipping another denarius your way! 🤞 Thanks GEV 👊
@@LostandFoundRelicCollecting It was essentially a whole group of people who own rifles of roughly the same period as the ones found coming together to compare markings on their rifles to see which ones were universal (ones that were most likely added by the British government, like the Broad Arrow) and which ones were idiosyncratic to specific manufacturers. We had all of the arsenals and major companies that did small arms contracts for the British government covered so we had a broad sample of examples to work from. Essentially, it's not all that different from archaeologists consulting with local metal detectorists or listening closely to Indigenous groups with strong local knowledge-- really smart people freely recognize that they have gaps in their knowledge and know where to look to fill them. Consider how many significant finds of the past 20 years have been made with the assistance of enthusiastic amateurs and local expertise-- Franklin's lost ships spring to mind. For a century and a half no European knew where the wrecks were, but had anyone bothered to ask the Inuit in the area, they'd have been shown the sites very quickly. Anyways, knowledge is remarkable in regards to how much of it is held in common and that bears remembering!
Just stumbled over your channel fella. Some very interesting bits. Is the Geo111 back right as contemporary fake? The second item up is not a candle snuffer, wrong shape entirely and drilled. Love the Stater....subbed.
I found it whilst metal detecting so I think it's real. I did wonder about the holes in the 'candles snuffer' being a bit counter intuitive! 🤣 Thanks so much for the sub! 👊
Glad you got your finds back from the FLO.. and as you say.. you will get them back eventually... I found a bronze age flanged palstave style axe head on new years eve 2019.. showed it the farmer who said he would have dismissed it as a piece of farming machinery!..I told him it's a bucket list dream find for any detectorist, and explained I have to report & hand it in.. which I did. After a month or so, I got an email from the FLO which I could print out for my personal record, it turned out to date from 1800 to 1500 BC which I find incredible!. As a detectorist yourself, I think we all picture.. or try to picture the last person who had this item in his / her possession. My flo covers two counties Notts & Derbyshire so had my find for three years, but I recently got in touch and she replied that even though my find is still awaiting validation.. I can now have it returned to me.. I pick it up this coming Saturday 25th January :) . Enjoyed the vid going through your finds and that Celtic Gold Stater! :) when you found that I bet you was absolutely stunned! :)
Well I think bucket list is an understatement in the case of a bronze age axe head, absolutely amazing find, congratulations!! That's what I love about the hobby, the finds are great but the history and stories that are behind them are even more special! Thanks for tuning in again, really appreciate it Peter! 👍
Congratulations to you on the gold stater!!... because that to me, is a bucket list find of a lifetime in it's own right!!.. I have always had a fascination in wanting to finding things / looking up the history of said finds... It is something I have loved doing from the age of about 8 or 9 yrs old... walking across farmers fields and finding the odd George lll coin or finding clay pipe bowls, ( I have a Victorian / Edwardian collection of ginger beer bottles / pot lids / Codd bottles / poison & medicine bottles / match strikers etc.) I guess you could say I'm a magpie for histories lost treasures.. ATB in finding histories treasures in 2025 .
Minor correction..I believe the Celtic stater is an Ambiani Uniface stater from Gaul. Around 50 BC..(not Atrebates) Lovely finds. Keep em up.
See this is why it would be useful if they still gave the info sheet with your finds! 😁 Appreciate the alternative suggestions I shall have a look into the Ambiani further. 👍 Thanks for being here 👊
I got my Dad a denarius and a couple of antonianii for Christmas a few years ago. The oldest was from around 100 AD I think; prior to that the oldest coin in his collection was a penny minted in our home province in Canada from the 1840s. It's really neat to find coinage that ancient; it makes you wonder how long it was in circulation before it went into the ground, and whose hands it had passed through. That gold Celtic coin is a real treasure though, what a beautiful find. I hear you on that sense of disappointment from having one's hopes of finding something really significant dashed. The closest I have come is getting cited in a provincial archaeologist's report for helping to identify a bunch of markings on some rifles pulled off the bottom of the ocean off Newfoundland.
That's pretty cool to have the expertise to be able to advise archaeologists!!! Agreed on the Celtic coin, pretty special find considered a once in a lifetime, I plan on many more though! 😁 Keep an eye out for the competition and with a bit of luck I will be shipping another denarius your way! 🤞 Thanks GEV 👊
@@LostandFoundRelicCollecting It was essentially a whole group of people who own rifles of roughly the same period as the ones found coming together to compare markings on their rifles to see which ones were universal (ones that were most likely added by the British government, like the Broad Arrow) and which ones were idiosyncratic to specific manufacturers. We had all of the arsenals and major companies that did small arms contracts for the British government covered so we had a broad sample of examples to work from. Essentially, it's not all that different from archaeologists consulting with local metal detectorists or listening closely to Indigenous groups with strong local knowledge-- really smart people freely recognize that they have gaps in their knowledge and know where to look to fill them. Consider how many significant finds of the past 20 years have been made with the assistance of enthusiastic amateurs and local expertise-- Franklin's lost ships spring to mind. For a century and a half no European knew where the wrecks were, but had anyone bothered to ask the Inuit in the area, they'd have been shown the sites very quickly. Anyways, knowledge is remarkable in regards to how much of it is held in common and that bears remembering!
Just stumbled over your channel fella. Some very interesting bits. Is the Geo111 back right as contemporary fake? The second item up is not a candle snuffer, wrong shape entirely and drilled. Love the Stater....subbed.
I found it whilst metal detecting so I think it's real. I did wonder about the holes in the 'candles snuffer' being a bit counter intuitive! 🤣 Thanks so much for the sub! 👊
@@LostandFoundRelicCollecting It just seems to have some base metal showing. I have found a couple that have a silver skin.