If your travelling between Elmswell and Ipswich, I would avoid the back roads 😂🤣

Crotal bells, potentially dating from 16th to 19th centuries.
A sound that was probably quite common on the land.

I missed the bees hatching, looks like they're getting ready to breed again.

Crotal bells, potentially dating from 16th to 19th centuries.
A sound that was probably quite common on the land.

Cycled into to town to pay in a cheque, now my local branch is no more.
And came back along the River Gipping 😊

Most of my customers are regulars, so I have a box full of keys, and alarm codes in my head, for the when emergency strikes.
Just this week I've had, help!!! the keys stuck. And when you passing.

So I just myself in, and get on with the job in hand 😂🤣

I do have a soft spot for coins minted in Bury St Edmunds. Maybe because it not so very far away.
Particulary the coins bearing only the moneyers name, unique for the coins of this time.
Robert de Hadleie ( 3 name variations altogether) for Edward I.

Can't remember the last time I saw a printed bottle. A friend over the road used to collect them and had a window cill full of them 😊

I do have a soft spot for coins minted in Bury St Edmunds. Maybe because it not so very far away.
Particulary the coins bearing only the moneyers name, unique for the coins of this time.
Robert de Hadleie ( 3 name variations altogether) for Edward I.

This is lovely. Just been to see a customer, I knew they nested last year, but apparently the Great Tits have been using this for around 6 years now 🤗

Stand clear, the walnut tree is about to take off 😊

Albert Scarfe Poster, Thoroughfare, Woodbridge.
From around 1880's - 90's.
Found screwed up, tucked under a skirting board, to fill a gap.

Even when it's wet and windy, Colchester Museums is always worth a visit 😊

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekQ
Q is for.... Queen Victoria, penny.

I found this early in my detecting career.
In my uncles garden in Norfolk. Part of which was once the railway line from Kings Lynn to Dereham, closed in the 1960's. I wonder if was lost by a rail worker.

Does anyone else stare at this pile of Henry III pennies, picking out the Irish and Scottish (Alexander III), or is it just me 😆

On a cold wet day..... well there's no contest really 😁

Baedeker in 1915: Great Britain and Turkey are the only states of Europe in which currency is arranged without much reference to the decimal system. 🤓

Albert Scarfe Poster, Thoroughfare, Woodbridge.
From around 1880's - 90's.
Found screwed up, tucked under a skirting board, to fill a gap.

In 2022 I found 2 gold items.
The padlock on 1st January, and the coin on 31st December. With an intriguing link, both tokens of affection.
What are the odds on that happening 😆

M. W. From BAM 3rd October 1899

Quarter Guinea of George III, 1762,bent to form a love token.

Some of my currently unidentified hammered. Some will be close, but not close enough. I occasionally dip in and take another look. Most will be missing the mark or detail which ties it down. Quite often it's crown damage that stops you in your tracks, the fine details missing.