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Title: What on earth is could this be! Post by: Stinkytoad on September 02, 2014, 07:56:22 PM Can I have some help to identify this lump of whatever that my detector loves?
Title: Re: What on earth is could this be! Post by: Chef Geoff on September 02, 2014, 08:51:51 PM Looks like a lump of copper ???
Title: Re: What on earth is could this be! Post by: david995 on September 02, 2014, 08:54:57 PM brings me back to a question i posted a while ago, ie has anyone on here found a meteorite ?
Title: Re: What on earth is could this be! Post by: Chef Geoff on September 02, 2014, 09:28:01 PM David only a tiny percentage of meteorites are detectable, the majority being rock, and these are iron and so would be id'd as such and probably ignored :-\
Title: Re: What on earth is could this be! Post by: david995 on September 02, 2014, 09:40:57 PM hi geoff ,
i know a little about them, most can be detected by our equipment but as you say would register in the iron range i also know someone with a very large one he found field walking localy he was offered 70k for it but turned it down ( does nt need the money) its so heavy for its size its untrue, when you pick it up it really surprises you , some japanese experts are looking at a slice of it , the site where he found it is out of bounds for detecting unfortunately as i would love to find one Title: Re: What on earth is could this be! Post by: Chef Geoff on September 02, 2014, 09:47:10 PM Obviously the place to detect them is in wild outbacks of the world where unlike Britain man hasn't contaminated the soil with 2500 years worth of rusty "bits" ;)
Title: Re: What on earth is could this be! Post by: david995 on September 02, 2014, 09:53:39 PM yep i agree ,
this guy found this one in n wales its over 18" in width and weighs very heavy indeed , he has also found axe heads, stone working tools, arrow heads etc etc his house is full of stuff he walks the fields after its rained as he says stuff sticks out then Title: Re: What on earth is could this be! Post by: Stinkytoad on September 02, 2014, 09:58:29 PM That's my only guess. is it odd to find lumps of copper like this? its near a Norman site and a motte. could it be a very old? its dam heavy! wish it was a meteorite..
Title: Re: What on earth is could this be! Post by: Chef Geoff on September 02, 2014, 10:11:59 PM It's always a good sign as it can mean there has been metal working on the site and "could" date your site back a lot, lot further than the Normans but as it's the second oldest man worked metal the date could be 5000 years or last week ???
Title: Re: What on earth is could this be! Post by: Val Beechey on September 02, 2014, 10:32:16 PM Try giving it a bit of a file so you can see what's under all the crud. Can you tell from the signal on the detector if it's copper or iron ??
Val Title: Re: What on earth is could this be! Post by: Stinkytoad on September 02, 2014, 11:01:31 PM Try giving it a bit of a file so you can see what's under all the crud. Can you tell from the signal on the detector if it's copper or iron ?? hi Val, its defiantly not iron, i use a neodymium magnet to test and the detector give a good strong signal.Val I did give it a file and im sure its copper coloured underneath. Title: Re: What on earth is could this be! Post by: Val Beechey on September 03, 2014, 09:22:33 AM In that case Geoff is probably right. It could be evidence of metal working in the area but could also stretch out the time line as far as age is concerned. Anything from Bronze age to ?????
Last year I found a square(ish) piece of pure Iron (Not magnetic). I only dug it because it gave a different iron signal than usual. After a little research I have convinced myself it is first cast from a Bloomery. That, of course, means metal working in the field and a wide open range of ages. All very interesting stuff. ::) Val |