c scope 4mxi deep hole

[marknewbury1]

Out came 2 dig nails 15 to 16 century

[Dryland]

 

[Dale]

It looks like you've been and found the 7 dwarfs miniature pick axe and sledge hammer 

[Val Beechey]

Nails,  Ugh !!!        The blight of the Detectorists life.


Val

[marknewbury1]

lron signal if I ignored it  15 to 16 century  ,it makes u think what we leave in the  ground

[NigelBirchgrove]

looks like B and Q to me

[Val Beechey]

Yes Mark. Periodically that discussion comes up.  It's frightening to think about but on the other hand, the sort of fields most of us have, it would be an impossibility to dig all Iron signals.
Some time ago, knowing I was in fields with Iron Age features I thought O.K. today I'm going to dig every signal, whatever it is.  I couldn't stand strait for days after.  And what did I find    Zilch.

Same applies to the item I'm asking for help with at the moment. If I'd thought when it came up that it MIGHT be a pommel I'd have dug around the find spot for anything Iron, just in case. Who knows what I might have missed.

Val

[probono]

Interesting that you handed them in to Mark - and he recorded them.

He asked me some time if I look for only non-ferrous items - to be honest, most of the time I do, although I did find a lovely geological type all iron hammer (which had been well used) some time back.

I'm sure, like most people here, the ferrous items turn into hedge fodder / sent to landfill!

Perhaps I shouldn't be so hasty, but I've got loads of roman nails already.......

[marknewbury1]

Out came 2 dig nails 15 to 16 century

the reason I digging all the signals on the old quarry fields the quarry fields in time r going to get blasted. And the to 10acres fields r gone from 4 ever we  be campaigning for years