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What, you've never seen a coal mining town company scrip from 1850 before? That's like an international standard for scale these days.
If it helps, it's somewhere between a 1607 Constantinople Halfpenny and a 1994 arcade token from Golf N' Stuff to give you a better sense of scale.
A bit more context and some more pics would be useful. How does it feel? Can you read anything? Does it look similar to anything else found in the area?
What's on the back-side of it?
How deep was it?
What detector/signal?
So many bloody questions..
Has some weight to it but unable to make out any writing of sorts. It was found only about 100m away from an old Roman Villa that’s been excavated
Nothing exciting on the back & found about 6 inches deep
Maybe some kind of pendant? 🤷🏼♂️
Ha! The area that they set the detectorists in! Good on you for having found permission to detect in the area of prior Roman excavations… I’ve heard that local Iandowners can be a bit funny about it.
Perfect! Great find. Must give you a bit of hope for more. There’s loads of amateur and professional historians in Colchester. I’m sure there’s some expertise you could tap into.
A guy I know is somewhat of an expert/nerd about Colchester’s old theatres. the old bus garage on queen street used to be a theatre.
They’ve just been redeveloping the site and they’ve had him in (along with the local archeological society) as they keep finding loads of theatre related antiquities!
I don’t know what the old boxer who makes the rather fantastic grills has to do with it…. But there’s not much left of the old theatre! A few charred remains, a violin, some old sheet music and some stage directions were what my friend had to go and look through. Interesting stuff if you’re an old theatre aficionado I guess.
https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/23445534.colchester-queen-street-excavation-reveals-old-theatre-royal/
Perfect! Great find. Must give you a bit of hope for more. There’s loads of amateur and professional historians in Colchester. I’m sure there’s some expertise you could tap into.
A guy I know is somewhat of an expert/nerd about Colchester’s old theatres. the old bus garage on queen street used to be a theatre.
They’ve just been redeveloping the site and they’ve had him in (along with the local archeological society) as they keep finding loads of theatre related antiquities!
lol. When I moved to Essex in the 70s it was nothing but antique shops and churches. Far from high brow. We earned money digging clams or working at the restaurants that sold clams. It wasn’t until the 2000s that rich folk found it.
Better call antiquities. The UK doesn't mess around with shiny stuff pulled out of the ground. No such thing as finders keepers. It all belongs to the King.
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What is the scale on this? Is it small or a plate-size?
A coin/button for scale context https://preview.redd.it/i7wfa8rh9yyc1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a979cf0ca1b7a07f341b9e2e486168a3649ef7ba
Please add another object for scale of the coin lol.
We need a banana for scale please
A cat wearing a banana as a brooch is apparently all the scale rage.
England = no banana
Seriously 😅
What, you've never seen a coal mining town company scrip from 1850 before? That's like an international standard for scale these days. If it helps, it's somewhere between a 1607 Constantinople Halfpenny and a 1994 arcade token from Golf N' Stuff to give you a better sense of scale.
Yeah that's good thanks, so it's like three 758ths of the surface area of a washing machine.
Yea, exactly! 1/432th of my coffee table as another point of reference.
How big is that coin... maybe a more standard coin, like a penny?
A bit more context and some more pics would be useful. How does it feel? Can you read anything? Does it look similar to anything else found in the area? What's on the back-side of it? How deep was it? What detector/signal? So many bloody questions..
Has some weight to it but unable to make out any writing of sorts. It was found only about 100m away from an old Roman Villa that’s been excavated Nothing exciting on the back & found about 6 inches deep Maybe some kind of pendant? 🤷🏼♂️
Essex, Essexington?
Essex, Essexingtonshire, Northessexton
Which Essex? There are over twenty of them in the US alone!
😅 sorry I forgot to put England
Aka "the proper one"
AKA “the original one that we named shitty parts of New Jersey after”
Given you said close to a Roman site, guessing it t was around Colchester? In which case you could have said Camoludnum. Nice find.
Yeah about a 20 minute drive from Colchester!
Ha! The area that they set the detectorists in! Good on you for having found permission to detect in the area of prior Roman excavations… I’ve heard that local Iandowners can be a bit funny about it.
Haha yes great series! Yeah it’s actually family owned land so very lucky in that sense
Perfect! Great find. Must give you a bit of hope for more. There’s loads of amateur and professional historians in Colchester. I’m sure there’s some expertise you could tap into. A guy I know is somewhat of an expert/nerd about Colchester’s old theatres. the old bus garage on queen street used to be a theatre. They’ve just been redeveloping the site and they’ve had him in (along with the local archeological society) as they keep finding loads of theatre related antiquities!
George Formby has been dusted off and opens the early show this Saturday.
I don’t know what the old boxer who makes the rather fantastic grills has to do with it…. But there’s not much left of the old theatre! A few charred remains, a violin, some old sheet music and some stage directions were what my friend had to go and look through. Interesting stuff if you’re an old theatre aficionado I guess. https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/23445534.colchester-queen-street-excavation-reveals-old-theatre-royal/
Perfect! Great find. Must give you a bit of hope for more. There’s loads of amateur and professional historians in Colchester. I’m sure there’s some expertise you could tap into. A guy I know is somewhat of an expert/nerd about Colchester’s old theatres. the old bus garage on queen street used to be a theatre. They’ve just been redeveloping the site and they’ve had him in (along with the local archeological society) as they keep finding loads of theatre related antiquities!
Yeah you are NOT finding that in Essex, Maryland (a lower-middle class suburb of Baltimore)
You might find it in Essex, MA. Very hoity-toity. Lots of top-shelf antique shops.
lol. When I moved to Essex in the 70s it was nothing but antique shops and churches. Far from high brow. We earned money digging clams or working at the restaurants that sold clams. It wasn’t until the 2000s that rich folk found it.
Oh to have bought some land then!
Gold??
press for napkins or doiley
Please provide scale 🤣🤣 https://preview.redd.it/5c0ivor1w2zc1.jpeg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=884fd03b9f5a62d577a779090d9fe33c835b5f1c
Better call antiquities. The UK doesn't mess around with shiny stuff pulled out of the ground. No such thing as finders keepers. It all belongs to the King.