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Re: Finds from the last outing
[Re: Detecting_wirral]
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17th Aug 2018 10:46pm
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What a lovely hobby. My mind goes into overdrive on seeing these sort of things. Imagining that the farm hands were tilling the fields, and walking towards home at the end of a long day minus a few pence which could be the next days dinner money. Such a hard life they had, but possibly more fulfilling than our own in many ways.
Or families crossing the fields on their way to church on a Sunday morning,( often one of two attendances on a Sunday) a duty in such communities, and to be showered in fire and brimstone from the pulpit to make them better people.
Them getting excited about the harvest crops, gathering it in and the villages coming together to celebrate . Would be great to find something Viking, and it's strange we don't hear about any such finds in this area.
Last edited by granny; 17th Aug 2018 10:49pm.
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. ~Chief Seattle
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Re: Finds from the last outing
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18th Aug 2018 8:33am
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As a boy I was brought up in a mining village in South Wales. Near my home was a steep hill which led to a series of streets further up the hillside. One morning after a heavy snowfall, my friend and I spotted some money in the snow.- several coins including a half-crown (A fortune to us) and a light bulb illuminated over our heads. Men returning from the Pub to their homes had to negotiate this steep hill, and some slipped on the ice and fell. Money would as often as not fall from their pockets and in the darkness they would not be able to find it. We set to work, and managed to pick up several pounds worth each. This was real money in - I guess about 1950. No metal detector of course. We repeated this until the ice melted and more than doubled our take!
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Re: Finds from the last outing
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21st Aug 2018 8:22pm
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This is a picture of what the token would of looked like ![[Linked Image]](https://images2.imgbox.com/72/f0/OieAQMIQ_o.png) Pretty much used instead of money, like a voucher. The threehalfpence wasn’t a find, it was something I bought years ago for my daughters silver coin collection. Not sure of a poem though haha
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Re: Finds from the last outing
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22nd Aug 2018 8:55pm
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Three Ha' Pence a Foot. A folk song (I think)
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. ~Chief Seattle
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Toyah . .
by GaryFromWirral. 10th Jan 2021 1:39pm
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AQUARIUM
by lincle. 8th Jan 2021 10:47am
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Toyah . .
by GaryFromWirral. 10th Jan 2021 1:39pm
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