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Title: Any idea what this is......
Post by: Tafflaff (Rob) on May 18, 2012, 11:50:40 PM
Ahhh well I figured its too machine orientated so I'll start a finds argument.  ;)


Title: Re: Any idea what this is......
Post by: Mike on May 18, 2012, 11:52:56 PM
its one of those chinese death stars ,  :o :o


Title: Re: Any idea what this is......
Post by: nobby on May 18, 2012, 11:54:13 PM
how big is it?


Title: Re: Any idea what this is......
Post by: Mike on May 18, 2012, 11:55:38 PM
you do realise that these random bits of lead have caused more discusion than the bliss tool  :o :o :o :o :o :o


Title: Re: Any idea what this is......
Post by: Tafflaff (Rob) on May 18, 2012, 11:56:00 PM
Its about the size of an unladen arfican swallow


Title: Re: Any idea what this is......
Post by: Whiteduke on May 18, 2012, 11:58:32 PM
can i ask what machine you found it with? 8)


Title: Re: Any idea what this is......
Post by: Mike on May 19, 2012, 12:03:00 AM
can i ask what machine you found it with? 8)

well it wasnt a   b #'@* & t~~l


Title: Re: Any idea what this is......
Post by: Tafflaff (Rob) on May 19, 2012, 12:03:22 AM
It was with my etrac, I managed to drag it out onto a field just the once with the aid of a small JCB, a team of Indian elephants and several rolling logs. It was a funny old day, it was raining heavily but the sun was blazing from a star lit sky, Now I'd heared how rubbish the E Tracs were , so I was quite exited when a team from the Amazon rainforest logging dept. offered me a day out detecting. I remember thinking at the time, hey! I'll take the E trac out for once as we have the elephant team to help. As it happens they did a good job, but still didnt get paid the agreed 5 monkey nuts each. And do you know what , they've never forgotten to this day.


Title: Re: Any idea what this is......
Post by: Mike on May 19, 2012, 12:06:16 AM
It was with my etrac, I managed to drag it out onto a field just the once with the aid of a small JCB, a team of Indian elephants and several rolling logs. It was a funny old day, it was raining heavily but the sun was blazing from a star lit sky, Now I'd heared how rubbish the E Tracs were , so I was quite exited when a team from the Amazon rainforest logging dept. offered me a day out detecting. I remember thinking at the time, hey! I'll take the E trac out for once as we have the elephant team to help. As it happens they did a good job, but still didnt get paid the agreed 5 monkey nuts each. And do you know what , they've never forgotten to this day.


5 monkey nuts !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you could buy a new TOOL  with that  ::) ::)


Title: Re: Any idea what this is......
Post by: Napoleon on May 19, 2012, 12:14:23 AM
Is it one of them were musket balls were attached lol asnormal i may probably 98% wrong again


Title: Re: Any idea what this is......
Post by: Farshot (Simon) on May 19, 2012, 03:11:22 AM
It's obviously Viking as it's an Asterix


Title: Re: Any idea what this is......
Post by: Techony on May 19, 2012, 05:15:48 AM
Lead Jacks  ???

(http://www.retroplanet.com/mm5/graphics/lands/24862-sp.jpg)
http://www.retroplanet.com/PROD/24862 (http://www.retroplanet.com/PROD/24862)


Title: Re: Any idea what this is......
Post by: Chef Geoff on May 19, 2012, 06:17:11 AM
Jacks? Viking? Musket ball sprue? No! No! No! You're all a million miles out and this should enlighten you.
In the dark days of 1942 the British Empire was being throttled in both the northern and southern hemispheres. The imminent threat of German invasion had passed but the war in North Africa was going from bad to worse.
In the East the war progressed no better but in the Jewel of the Empire in Asia, Singapore, The populace believed that the Japanese were no match for the British forces, this was borne out of a contemporary view that the Japanese were inferior soldiers.
The War Department actually told people in Malayer that Japanese bombing posed no threat due to all Japanese wearing glasses and therefore their aim would be awful. Also they told how all the Imperial troops were tiny in comparison to our "fine stout British lads".
OOH how wrong they were, the battle for Singapore lasted just 7 days and still looms as, as Winston Churchill put it,  the "worst disaster" and "largest capitulation" in British history.
Well what we have here is evidence of this "Western supremacist" view. It's obviously a trap for Japanese tanks and probably brought back to good old Blighty by one of the defenders.
Below is a normal sized European example from the same period. ::)


Title: Re: Any idea what this is......
Post by: The Doc on May 19, 2012, 08:57:59 AM
I believe it's the skeleton of a previously unknown lead-based lifeform.

The jury is out as to what it looked like alive, but the consensus is that it was somewhere between an octopus and a spider in appearance, although it is not known whether it was hairy or smooth-skinned.


Title: Re: Any idea what this is......
Post by: Neil on May 19, 2012, 09:37:37 AM
You're all miles out its a lead stair rod holder! ;) ;) ;)


Title: Re: Any idea what this is......
Post by: markymark123 on May 19, 2012, 10:42:12 AM
if u have a look at my last post where i posted about my new permission in neath i have exact same thing on there :)


Title: Re: Any idea what this is......
Post by: Meatslicer on May 19, 2012, 12:00:29 PM
It is so obvious! its a phallic roman sex education tool, meant to frighten the bejeezus out of any young girl intent on losing her cherry!


Title: Re: Any idea what this is......
Post by: cardiffian on May 19, 2012, 03:41:24 PM
Home made jacks, that's my line of thinking as well. Also called five stones or gobs.


Title: Re: Any idea what this is......
Post by: Tafflaff (Rob) on May 19, 2012, 04:07:03 PM
Hmmmmmm just maybe


Title: Re: Any idea what this is......
Post by: 16.5DD (richard) on May 19, 2012, 05:31:56 PM
The picture about to posts up was it not of the sea deffence where barbed wire was attached to keep the shore clear of swimming /walking troop invasions. Loads of remenants across swansea beach. Shallow bay almost flat you see.


Title: Re: Any idea what this is......
Post by: 16.5DD (richard) on May 19, 2012, 05:42:36 PM
is it not celtic money


Title: Re: Any idea what this is......
Post by: Techony on May 19, 2012, 06:18:53 PM
You're all miles out its a lead stair rod holder! ;) ;) ;)


No, no, no...

It's Noddy Holder and Rod Stewart !!! You can't just mix the names up like that  ::)


Title: Re: Any idea what this is......
Post by: Da Monkey on May 19, 2012, 06:23:12 PM
still didnt get paid the agreed 5 monkey nuts each.

Just leave my nuts out of it...


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