Old Metal Button Finds

Old Metal Button Finds

Recently, I have yet again been back to some of my old sites. One site in particular, which the last time I went to had been fenced off. Well, this time the fence was open so I went over there and had another look around. It's a wooded area that's now being developed into some kind of walkway..It looks as though there wouldn't be much junk in this area with it being a derelict woods, but surprisingly, there was a fair amount.

Anyway, I did manage to find some old metal buttons. I have found an old button at this site before. This time I found 3. I think this site used to have houses or buildings of some kind built on it many years ago, as I have dug up what look like footings to a building. And with all the buttons I have found, all different in appearance, there must of been people living on this site at some stage.

The button on the left in the picture below is made by Hyam & Co. I can just make the writing out. After researching Hyam & Company I found out that Hyam & Co were a clothes manufacturer in the 1800's, based on Oxford Street in the UK. They have a boys suit on display in the museum of childhood, which was made by Hyam & Co.

I'm not sure about the other two buttons, but they must be fairly old. Specially the button on the right. It does have some writing on but it's very hard to read. I can just about read the word "Gilt". The button in the middle has no writing or marks.

I have been reading about certain places near to where I live. Some of the areas were Celtic settlements. I went over to one site just down the road from where I live, but it is so overgrown with stinging nettles and blackberry bushes that it's impossible to do any metal detecting there. I can't even walk over there without getting tangled in the bushes. The ground cannot be seen. It never used to be like this, as the area used to be looked after by the council, but over the past few years they have disowned it.

Until the next time.

Metal Detecting Bullets Find

Metal Detecting Bullets Find

Been back to a few of my old metal detecting sites recently, in particular a site across the road from here, which was where I found an SL43 shell bullet casing. This area must have been fairly active in Word War II because I have found more bullets. One bullet was still live but it has snapped in half, probably due to how long its been buried for.

As you can see from the picture below, the bullet has never been fired, but has snapped in half. This bullet has "RL 39" and a little arrow symbol on the base but it's very hard to see.

Live Broken Bullet

Various WWII Bullets, except I'm not sure about the item on the far left..

This is the end of a rifle bullet. Not sure if it's been fired or not, but it looks like it hasn't. This bullet is much thinner, sharper and longer then the others I have found.

Another broken bullet found almost right next to the rifle bullet pictured above. It's not part of the rifle bullet as it's way too wide and looks like it's come from a handgun.

 

 

I might go back over to this site again soon when I have enough time. It seems as though there could possibly be a rifle or gun buried over there somewhere. No doubt it would be in bad condition if it's been lying there since World War II, specially with how mineralised the soil is there. Coins found there have holes going straight through them, but to find a weapon from WW2, whatever the condition, would still be a very neat find! I'm also pretty sure I found a bomb lol, no joke. It was totally smashed to bits, but was without a doubt still live. I could see the blue and white powder charge, just like the first picture in this post you can see the gun powder in the live broken bullet. Except in the bomb the powder looked much more heavy duty, similar to damp washing powder. The bomb shell was too smashed for me to take, but when I think about it now, I might go back over and get it, clean it up and take a few pictures of it, well, whats left of it. I know where abouts it was..

 

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