Title: crotal bell and silver spoon Post by: the sutt on May 16, 2009, 05:00:32 PM a couple of finds that i found afortnight ago lage crotal bell and a nice silver spoon dated 1814 it was all bent and dirty when i found it but it looks nice now
Title: Re: crotal bell and silver spoon Post by: the sutt on May 16, 2009, 05:03:30 PM sorry about the size on the photo every body having trouble sizing the picture
Title: Re: crotal bell and silver spoon Post by: bluebell on May 16, 2009, 05:04:39 PM nice bell but i never saw the spoon? ::)
Title: Re: crotal bell and silver spoon Post by: sodbuster on May 16, 2009, 05:05:50 PM Nice to find croatal bells . took a long time before I found mine . Interesting " W " marking on the picture , I wonder if this was the maker or the farmers initial
Title: Re: crotal bell and silver spoon Post by: the sutt on May 16, 2009, 05:08:07 PM the spoon"s pic is on mine tina sorry about that
Title: Re: crotal bell and silver spoon Post by: Stig(The) on May 16, 2009, 05:08:22 PM Nice finds Fella. I clicked on the pic of the bell to get a closer look.
"WOW it`s huge Man! " ;D Title: Re: crotal bell and silver spoon Post by: hedgehog on May 16, 2009, 05:09:08 PM Nice ones , the W relates to the Wells family who used to make them, interesting link here always finding bits of copper wire, nice spoon too!
http://www.ukdfd.co.uk/ukdfddata/showrecords.php?product=891 (http://www.ukdfd.co.uk/ukdfddata/showrecords.php?product=891) Title: Re: crotal bell and silver spoon Post by: sodbuster on May 16, 2009, 05:12:55 PM Nice link hedgehog , bookmarked!
Title: Re: crotal bell and silver spoon Post by: Chef Geoff on May 16, 2009, 05:22:40 PM 30 years detecting and still never even got a sniff of a croatal bell.
Chef Title: Re: crotal bell and silver spoon Post by: the sutt on May 16, 2009, 05:25:01 PM nice link hedgehog much appreciated
Title: Re: crotal bell and silver spoon Post by: trys on May 16, 2009, 06:20:42 PM Nice finds, was the bell found in wales? I've only found half of one which was similar in design and size to the one you've found.
Title: Re: crotal bell and silver spoon Post by: PHIL YNYSBOETH on May 16, 2009, 07:05:24 PM Great finds stu ;0)
Title: Re: crotal bell and silver spoon Post by: sodbuster on May 17, 2009, 07:24:43 AM Did you by chance find the " bell" in the hedgerow ? All the croatal bell finds I have heard of come this area , probably as the animals are rubbing against the hedges or trees , as they do .
Title: Re: crotal bell and silver spoon Post by: Neil on May 17, 2009, 04:40:26 PM mmmmmm cotal bells!!! Never even found a part of one.
The closest I have got to one is the one Borderfox has amusingly leant me until I can find my own. Some dream of gold, some dream of hoards - I dream of crotal bells. My day will come! Oh, and it has to be a Welsh find! ::) Neil Title: Re: crotal bell and silver spoon Post by: james2nd on May 17, 2009, 06:08:55 PM Nice finds,not been lucky enough to find a crotal bell yet,but I'm still looking!
Jim ;D ;D Title: Re: crotal bell and silver spoon Post by: mole on May 17, 2009, 06:28:38 PM good work Sutt/Stu like the spoon in particular even though I,ve never found a crotal; bell myself ::) mole:
Title: Re: crotal bell and silver spoon Post by: ROMAN STEVE on May 17, 2009, 06:41:59 PM HI STU
Nice bell did they put it on a bull because his horns didnt work nice to see you doing well stu you have all the luck myself i walk all day get wet ,feet ache ,cold, batteries run out dont find a thing .come home wife shouts at me but there you are must not grumble STEVE :( Title: Re: crotal bell and silver spoon Post by: Tafflaff (Rob) on May 17, 2009, 07:08:41 PM I've been luck enough to find one Crotal bell, but that was on a rally in Newbury area, Stu without giving the area away , roughly what area was the bell found?
Title: Re: crotal bell and silver spoon Post by: the sutt on May 17, 2009, 09:27:16 PM hi taff the bell was found in the monmouth area
Title: Re: crotal bell and silver spoon Post by: bymatt666 (byron) on May 18, 2009, 09:57:00 PM i saw the crotal bell at the meeting last week with stu...it's fab !..i'm jealous, a crotal bell is top of my wish list !...well done stu.....byron
Title: Re: crotal bell and silver spoon Post by: Tafflaff (Rob) on May 19, 2009, 11:07:29 AM Hi Stu , Thanks for that fella, Nice to see one come up in Wales!
Title: Re: crotal bell and silver spoon Post by: Al.Thepastfinder, ( Alan ) on May 19, 2009, 05:19:12 PM NIce one STu, i'd like to find a whole one one of these days, my best is a broken one, about three quarters of it left, with no paterns either,
Title: Re: crotal bell and silver spoon Post by: ROMAN STEVE on May 22, 2009, 03:12:56 PM THEY ARE NICE NOW THEY
ARE CLEANED UP STU ;D Title: Re: crotal bell and silver spoon Post by: Radnor Bandit (Ian) on May 22, 2009, 04:22:46 PM Any chance of a close up on the hall marks on the spoon, I cant work out the assay office from pics.
Cheers http://www.silverhallmarks.org.uk/english-silver-hallmarks/english-silver-hallmarks (http://www.silverhallmarks.org.uk/english-silver-hallmarks/english-silver-hallmarks) Title: Re: crotal bell and silver spoon Post by: Beefy (GARETH) on May 22, 2009, 04:27:34 PM nice fines bud dont stop lol ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: crotal bell and silver spoon Post by: viking on May 23, 2009, 03:06:55 PM nice finds mate keep it up plenty more treasure out there ;D
Title: Re: crotal bell and silver spoon Post by: DIGGA on May 23, 2009, 09:42:45 PM nice finds bud keep them cummin ;D ;D
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