Metal Detector Finds by Mark Stephens

From the fields behind Winterbourne Road

Bent coin

Bent Coin 2

Notice the bends in this 1570s coin. When a couple pledged their love the man would bend one side of the coin in his teeth and the woman bent the other side of the coin.

 

Badge of Gloucester Regiment
Badge of the Gloucester Regiment The badge was  silver in colour

 

allt text

1891 Coin

 

Metal Cross

 

Badge

 

Watch Keys

Watch Keys

 

allt text

USA Soldier's Token

Soldier's Tokens found in the fields near where the USA were stationed at a searchlight for the guns on Purdown

Meatal stamped with number 20
 

Small lead balls

A collection of small balls, those with holes are possibly weights, those without are musket or pistol balls

 

Metal ingot

Rear of a metal ingot, the other side is smooth

 

Flint Scraper

Flint Scraper

A Flint Scraper
 

Coin 1

Coin 2

Coin 3

Coin 4

COINS

 

SOME OTHER FINDS

MONUMENT NO. 868074

Prehistoric axe recovered from near the brickworks, Stoke Gifford

MONUMENT NO. 201598
STOKE GIFFORD
A large hoard of Roman coins in an urn was found by a young man on 4 April 1880 on the bank of a brook near Filton (a tributary of the Frome)

Harry Stoke Excavations
Finds and archive are deposited in City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery.