I was really aching after yesterday so decided to go to a different field, very windy and difficult to persevere. Anyway found about 50 items and the ones below were the only non-dross finds other than modern machinery bits.
I always get mildly annoyed when I find the very small lead tokens, in my mind they are only that small so that there is a good chance that the recipient will lose them (so adding to the landowners pocket, but really hitting the poor workers where it hurts!) . Just a quarter of a mile away from where I found it is the old workhouse, people who were unfortunate enough to reside there in this village had to wear a yellow cloth star in a prominent position on their chest area, if they were seen at any time not wearing the star, then the whole weeks money (and it wasn't much) was forfeited (remind you of anyone!)
I have been whingeing a bit about not finding any groats or half groats and can only think these were prized possessions around here (been trying to find one for 10 years). To answer Simons question, the majority of cut halves that turn up are usually Henry 111 and only found about 2 cut quarters.
There is another little story about the village in the 13th century: there were 2 jewish money lenders living in the village and basically the village got together and ran them out of town (wonder why that was
) anyway taking it a small step further, I can imagine two bearded shylocks in their robes leaving town mumbling and grumbling as to their fate.
Back to the little lead token, when I cleaned it , it did make me smile and thought it was worth sharing. The clog clasp speaks for itself. but the corset eye has turned up where I have found others over a period of time , can't help thinking that someone left in a hurry, dunno why they didn't return for the corset though?
