well done Geoff- laughed again - spooky - because guess what I found two days ago - a servicemans button, exactly the same as yours. LOL but I was in the wrong field !! ahhhh
Its how I found the little silver thingie because I was on the "wrong" field (next to the fields I am allowed on and didnt realise). famer came flying across the fields, me thinking how quick can I get to the car if its a nutter, and he was not happy to say the least. Apologising as much as I could and thinking of digging a hole big enough to fit into it, I rushed off his field, after giving him the button, which he said "I dont want that". opps.
So left the only area I have to detect on and decided to go to the farm to play with the horses and just scooted around and found the silver thing.
Val - What also made me laugh was the penicillin tubes. OMG they give the most amazing sound and bars on my detector, luckily they are plastic today so once you've picked them up they are not going to be replaced by this year's batch.
The other bug bear is gun cartridge tops. Again a superb signal and around us loads and loads of shooting goes on.
Take my hat off to you to dig so many of the washers though - I think I would have been crying each time I dug one of those up !!
Nice horseshoe, dug up a medeival one the other day - really pleased about that.
HA needs a prod in the right direction me thinks !
Take care
h