Metal Detector Finds by Mark Stephens
From the fields behind Winterbourne Road
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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.
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Watch Keys
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Soldier's Tokens found in the fields near where the USA were stationed at a searchlight for the guns on Purdown |
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A collection of small balls, those with holes are possibly weights, those without are musket or pistol balls
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Rear of a metal ingot, the other side is smooth
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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.