Any idea what this is......

[Tafflaff (Rob)]

Ahhh well I figured its too machine orientated so I'll start a finds argument. 

[Mike]

its one of those chinese death stars , 

[nobby]

how big is it?

[Mike]

you do realise that these random bits of lead have caused more discusion than the bliss tool  

[Tafflaff (Rob)]

Its about the size of an unladen arfican swallow

[Whiteduke]

can i ask what machine you found it with?

[Mike]

can i ask what machine you found it with?

well it wasnt a   b #'@* & t~~l

[Tafflaff (Rob)]

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.

[Mike]

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 

[Napoleon]

Is it one of them were musket balls were attached lol asnormal i may probably 98% wrong again

[Farshot (Simon)]

It's obviously Viking as it's an Asterix

[Techony]

Lead Jacks 


http://www.retroplanet.com/PROD/24862

[Chef Geoff]

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.

[The Doc]

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.

[Neil]

You're all miles out its a lead stair rod holder!