ENGLAND Fall 2023

 

This was more of a mental vacation from work with a little bit of metal detecting.

Virgin Atlantic Upper Class Seat

Virgin Atlantic Upper Class Seat

What's in here?

Pajama's for the flight  LOL

On Our Way

Chocolate Cup for Desert. 

The cup and spoon was actually made out of Chocolate.

Almost there

This plane had a separate lounge for the upper class

 

My Hyundai for the week

It's an I-20

First keeper of the hunt...a Greenie of course

Cant say that I did not find Hammered 

 

Silver in the dirt from a hole

1816 Silver Shilling

 

Fresh from the ground, 1485 Henry VII Silver Groat

1485 Henry VII Silver Groat

1485 Henry VII Silver Groat

I'm so bad a selfe's

Chicago Ron and company.....

Lunch with Ron and the gang

 

Large Watch Winder

 

Tube access was short walk from my Hotel at T4

The London Underground 

My destination for the day in London

This was a great museum, I have been trying to visit it for years.

My Plane for the crossing of the Pond

This seat does almost everything

I have on my Delta Skymiles Socks for the trip

8 1/2 hours to Atlanta

 

Great picture while taking off from London Heathrow Airport

(note shadow of the plane I'm on)

Another shot of Windsor Castle on the way out of England


Here are the finds I kept on this trip.

1. 1909 Edward VIII milled silver sixpence
2. 17thC thimble
3. 1816 Georgian milled silver shilling
4. 1485-1509 Henry VII hammered silver groat -Type 3c
Crozier ends on cross Obv DI+GRA*REX*** Rev TAS/*LON/D - London mint
5. Georgian draw pull
6. Georgian mount
7. Medieval lead token
8. 2 Georgian watch winders
9. 15th C lead token
10. Lead toy figurine
11. 17thC lead token
12. 15thC Gold Angel coin weight
13. Georgian trade weight
14. 2 Georgian thimbles
15. Georgian bowl foot
16. 3 WWII AA flack shell fragments
18. Georgian finial
19. 17thC decorated finger ring
20. 19thC buckle

1. 25 – 18th to 20th Century copper coins
16. Post medieval lead bale seal
17. Post medieval lead bale seal
18. Georgian watch winder
19. 6 lead musket balls
20. Georgian watch winder

1. 17thC hammered copper trade farthing
2. 2 clay pipe fragments
4. Victorian mount
5. Georgian silver button
6. 7 Post Tudor buttons
9. Illegible silver folded coin
10.Buckle fragment

 

For complete information on these hunts, use the following link....

http://www.colchestertreasurehunting.co.uk/

Have any questions?, you can email me directly at......

mking11@earthlink.net

 

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