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went out with Melonhead yesterday nr abergavenny on a new field we had permission to detect on very hilly field and did not help with my bad foot  ;D, the first 2 hours Melonhead was getting a few nice buttons and a few copper coins he also found a nice silver brooch type thing very nice to, myself nothing but modern junk :'( meet up for a chat at the top of the hill with Melonhead and said to him lets go to another field we been to before as i was not finding nothing as then mark showed the buttons and coins he found and then said lets go and have a break glad of the break as well as my foot was aching a bit . Melonhead did say while having the break "why don't you try the banking we were having our cuppa on " so after resting my foot and a nice cup of coffee Mark went off on his way and i stayed on the banking and withing 10 minutes dug up the roman brooch with the spring attachment still intact. mark came over and was pleased of the find i made withing 5 minates mark came over to me hands shaking with gold in his hand we think the coin was George 3rd or George 4th we could just make out a date of 182! has the gold was battered to bits and very worn,such a pity it was in a state as it was but gold is gold . i did find a nice buckle later on we called it a day and a good day to as for the first two hours i was ready to move on glad i stayed now: ;)

welldone kev and melonhead great finds keep it up guys.welldone on the brooch kev lovely find and welldone melonhead on the gold coin..
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Great finds well done guys.......PaulB. 8)

The fibula is lovely Kev - very distinctive with those "nobbly bits" and to have the spring is a bonus!

Any chance on a close up of "the goldie"?

Mark is truely having a "Stellar" detecting year what with Lizzy milled sixpence, gold posy ring and now a gold coin. Well done to you Mark - well deserved mate.

Cheers
Neil

cheers Neil im over the moon with it and Mark is gutted but a true friend he is he was so pleased for me finding the brooch.I always thought that gold didn't ware !!! it was in a really bad state.

Awww nice find guys well done on the Fibula and well done on the Goldie .....Gold is Gold no matter the condition.

Well done guys

being a new farm i gave the gold coin back to the farmers wife in the hope it will get us a few more feilds

Hello
Cracking finds boys.Look forward to seeing the other gold coins you find.
Cheers Andrew

on Melonhead's silver brooch he found there is a HALLMARK of ... anchor & lion & letter K..............anyone know please. cheers fo all the comments from above.

nice finds there .could be a sweetheart brooch, birmingham..... 8)

few more of the brooch it was  different angles.......... ;)

The roman brooch looks silvered. Nice find. Especially with the spring mechanism intact. Dead jealous mate.

Well done.

Eric

Lovelly finds Kev. As far as I can see the brooch is Bham 1909. Is the makers name on the other half?
Nice idea giving the remains of the gold coin to the Farmer.

Val

The buckle is a lovely little find as well. Traces of gold gilt in the pattern. Nice wee find, I like buckles  ;)

Well done you two - love the fibula  :)

Brilliant finds-love the pretty buckle.Well done on the gold coin,more will come your way I'm sure.

hello val the makers name opposite the assay marks is H&M thanks for dateing it

Love the broach. Some nice finds there. Keep um coming.

Have a look at   www.silvermarks.co.uk/Makers/Birmingham (http://www.silvermarks.co.uk/Makers/Birmingham)    Compare the marks and see what you think. A few possibles.
Lovely brooch.

Val

the buckle i found as been dated circa 1620 to 1680 on UKDFD
 (http://www.detectingwales.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=10660.0;attach=33576;image)

(http://www.ukdfd.co.uk/ukdfddata/data/176/large/1304341475019.JPG)

Thanks for posting. Nice finds.  ;D

very welldone guys .gold weehee  ;D