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Had this off the beach it must weigh a Kilo! could it be a fishing weight?  :o had some luck with the ring hallmark 22ct leopard head 1928, and a lovely local Swansea and Morriston penny token, any help with the lead thingy appreciated, thanks

the 1 kilo lead thingy could be a boat weight as they do use weights upwords of 2lbs for holding bottom this is a link for a 2lb weight mould
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well found :)

 I think you could be right with that jcb, thanks  :)

I've found one like that and turned out too be a loom weight

They do look very similar, the hole running through is much smaller on mine, do you have a date for yours hoover-G?

I did have a write up but can't find it since i moved house.  Think mines a couple of thousand years old flo said. My opinion tho loom weights are pretty hard to date but experts gave me a date. Is yours like this on the other end.

would it be a weight for weighing down fishing nets.as now they have leaded rope

Older ones seem to have a crust of white lead oxide on them. Jcb is more close too an ID on yours pal

Thanks for that,  :)

The token is a nice find and in excellent condition for off of a beach.

Another use that  lead weights and other weights were used for by boats was to give an indication on depth when they were coming close to shore so they didn't damage the hull, although a 1 kilo weight might take the poor fellow over the side with it  :D :D

thanks, yes it is for the beach, but I do get some in good nick off the bay,  :)

Very nice tokens! I agree with the net weight aswell.

Wow Max that token is a beauty, in that condition off a beach I thought it must be a later one but just looked it up 1813 :o

Thanks Geoff I'm very pleased with it, I don't know if it's the black sand and clay that preserves them there, here's another I found a while back around the ballast stones, brass farthing token Robert Ugden Somerset 1666.

Oh now that's a bit special and I bet not many of those are found on beaches, I guess if finds manage to make it into the clay then as on land they are almost hermetically sealed ;)

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Minehead obviously from the cross channel trade that went on ;)

I think so to Geoff, here's a early pilgrim's badge with pin,

off Swansea bay,  :)

wow you have had some luck!

Found that a while ago Matthew  :)

OK stop showing off lol Is it associated with St Davids? Funny enough I was chatting to a customer from Pembroke the other day and he's found about half a dozen pilgrim's Ampulla in the last two years over that way, I on the other hand have found a broken piece of ampulla and not a sniff of a badge but then I'm still a newby ::)

It could be the pilgrims way to St Davids, I do know of another two badges to come off the bay, but it's luck and being in the right part, Swansea bay is few miles from the marina to the mumbles, If your down this way I'll take you over Geoff  :)

Thanks Max I'll hold you to that ;)
I just had a quick look at it's pretty similar to the Thomas Becket badge from Canterbury maybe they were doing the Cooks "Pilgrim" tour lol

Some lovely finds there Max. Well done  :)

Some very nice finds being shown. 
It's worth bearing in mind that the water line was much further out 400 years ago so some parts of the Pilgrims Way, that is now beach, would have been land back then.


Val

very nice well done