Metal Detecting Find - 27th Dec 2014 6:00pm
Hi All
Wondering if you can help. Below is something I found whilst metal detecting on the fields opposite Lennox Lane.
I know from previous research that this field hasn't really changed at all since ordinance surveys began and looking at even older maps its just a field. The only difference is the observatory school has now been built on the field.
I found this earlier whilst metal detecting, looking at the picture its hard to make out the words so this is what it says:
P.J PARMITER PATENT
STEEL HARROW
TISBURY WILTS
ENGLAND
10793 (NOT 100% ON THE NUMBERS)
I have looked online and its an agricultural manufacturer. So I am just wondering what this could be? What its used for, how old it is and also why would a farmer in the Wirral be getting agricultural equipment so far away? I am not sure when the farming of this land stopped but it does look turn of the century to me.
Thanks in advance.
Wondering if you can help. Below is something I found whilst metal detecting on the fields opposite Lennox Lane.
I know from previous research that this field hasn't really changed at all since ordinance surveys began and looking at even older maps its just a field. The only difference is the observatory school has now been built on the field.
I found this earlier whilst metal detecting, looking at the picture its hard to make out the words so this is what it says:
P.J PARMITER PATENT
STEEL HARROW
TISBURY WILTS
ENGLAND
10793 (NOT 100% ON THE NUMBERS)
I have looked online and its an agricultural manufacturer. So I am just wondering what this could be? What its used for, how old it is and also why would a farmer in the Wirral be getting agricultural equipment so far away? I am not sure when the farming of this land stopped but it does look turn of the century to me.
Thanks in advance.