ECHOES OF THE BRONZE AGE /// Identifying ancient UK metal detecting finds (how it REALLY plays out)
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
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In my wildest dreams, I did NOT think I’d be finding something like this in my first year as a beginner detectorist in this hobby.
I had no idea that I might be documenting a (potentially) VERY special, ancient find. Watch my thoughts and research play out in real time.
Come metal detecting again with me in a stunning location, A post medieval farmstead, above an ancient Bronze Age port and close to a Romano British site. This fascinating new UK permission has just given up a most intriguing object.
Follow my thought process as I piece together what this item could be, with plenty of help from you all in this community, internet research on the British Museum PAS website, and contact with the archaeological finds specialist FLO.
My usual mix of history, nature, outdoors and searching. Plus, a (potential) *BRONZE AGE*? find of a lifetime….😊 
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A bit about me:
Not your average bloke in camo..
Hello! I’m Ellie, English female detectorist, beachcomber, mudlark and artist. 🇬🇧 Follow my searching journey metal detecting the UK countryside and shoreline, as I learn about British history through objects.
Have I found any treasure? Well - in my first year of detecting I have collected Roman artefacts, old gold, hammered coins and medieval finds. But the REAL treasure is in the stories each object tells about people and places. Sometimes it’s the mystery objects that I love best - cracking the code of time with plenty of help from my team of trusty subscribers!
Miss D.
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Hi! Its me - Miss D. Now - can I just check you are on my SUBSCRIBE list? I do hope so, you'd be very welcome. :)
Nice find and I vote awl, think a little flimsy for chisel and to decorate clay pottery surely you could use a stick for that . Go back and dig more stuff 😄🇨🇦
Loving your enthusiasm. 😊 keep it up. We all have days where we literally find nothing. Doesn’t matter how many years you’ve been detecting for or what machine you have , we all draw a zero sometimes. But if you’re out there in the fresh air walking where others have trod then you’re having a great day
YOU are the best find on UA-cam. 😆
Good job!
What a cracking little video and a great find 😊
Ah cheers! 😊 hope it will be confirmed as good…!
Hey Ellie! A friend of mine found a similar object in England and was told that it is a Bronze Age object that has been treated with animal skin after slaughter. I really wish I was that old. A great find.
Greetings Pertti
Me to Pertti! I will let you guys know as soon as I get a confirmation!
Such good good stuff!!! just Brilliant!!! Cheers from Mississippi
Thanks so much for the lovely feedback and for watching!
Thanks for sharing your awesome video. Blessings
Thanks a lot for watching 😊
You might be able to determine if the flat end is broken off of another piece, if you examine it with a magnifying glass, and a strong light. If there are any sharp edges, that would be a sign of it being broken off of another piece.
Good idea. I’ll look
Wow, that looks like a great find. Worth going back there for! Looking forward to hear what the specialist has to say. Cheers.
Yes me too! And yes I’ll be heading back!
Ellie I really like the painting in the background . Very very nice is that all paint or some watercolor
The original was acrylic on wood panel, now sold, what you’re looking at there is a print taken from a 3D scan of my original painting! You can have a better look at it here www.ellieverrecchia.co.uk/shop/first-footprints-limited-edition-print
Congratulations. Good research.
Thanks for watching 😊
What a great find! Looking forward to learning what the Bronze Age specialist says and to what other treasures you find on that permission.
I will update as soon as I hear back 😊
Ellie, I think you have definitely found a Bronze age chisel. One important feature when comparing to examples on the website that nobody picked up on is the majority of samples shown are bent to varying degrees obviously caused by strong forces when in use pointing to either stone or wood carving.
That’s a very good point - mine definitely has a curve - but I guess the same COULD be said for a nail?!
As you said, how fantastic to have land to search containing relics from @3000 years ago! Just amazing! Best of luck as you continue your search!
Could be so exciting - just have to wait now…!
Thanks for sharing your wonderful videos. Blessings
Thank you so much for watching!
Hopefully, you will find some axe heads that are on the top of my bucket list of finds .Good luck 🍀🍀🍀
That would be rather special wouldn’t it!
Such an amazing artefact Ellie, well done and thank you so much for sharing.
Such great interesting channel, really enjoy watching 👍🏻
That is great to hear! Thank you so much for the lovely feedback 😊👍🏻
Could that be what they call a "Crucifixion Nail"?
Well whatever it turns out to be it’s a really cool find! Bet you’re glad you went back to dig after the thaw. Keep us posted! Sounds like you’ve got an awesome place to hunt!
What was weird, I took a what three words as it’s a massive field, but I ended up walking right to it without the location plugged in 😂
What an amazing find Ellie. Hope you get a good result with the test from FLO. Well done.
Me too.. waiting….
Good luck with this potentially ancient tool. I know exactly how you feel, having found an early bronze age axe head last year here in NE Scotland. It was taken by our Treasurer Trove peeps but still waiting to hear further! Very jealous of your recent roman finds though, very little this far north :( GL and HH.
Wow that’s quite the wait! I haven’t handed it over yet. In fact I’ve brought it with me to bronze age Scilly. I might go live from inside an entrance tomb tomorrow!
Looks like a nail to me. I've got a ton of them, including with flat ends and up to 250mm in length.
Are they bronze nails? This is bronze. It doesn’t have a nail ‘head’ and no damage to the pointy end. FLO will let me know the outcome as per the end of my vid - at the moment it’s with a Bronze Age specialist to decide.
So exciting and fascinating to walk through the experience of trying to identify this object. I have no idea what it could be, but every time I heard a reply from one of the folks on your channel, I felt persuaded to consider all their brilliant feedback. You’re incredibly lucky to live in a place with so much rich history and to have access to such wonderful viewers and resources. I have a Deus 2 also, but so far, I find a lot of fishing gear, nails and mostly modern finds here on the U.S. Gulf Coast. Keep searching and thanks for bringing us along! ❤
The conversation and puzzle is sometimes the best bit of the finds - I hope it’s a really old item but if not I have learned so much!
Your enthusiasm is inspiring, can’t wait to get going , still saving but a month off work with vertigo is not going to help 😢
Sorry to hear it. I hope you feel up to it soon. Meanwhile ‘eyes only’ is free and very good training for an enquiring mind. I’m doing that this week. Beachcombing/mudlarking and field finds. All part of ‘the search’, all fun and interesting 😊
could be a nail from a boat or for a boat , check out old rove nail for boat building
Certainly possible (does not have any kind of nail head though?) also no signs of damage to a very fine chisel shaped end. FLO are investigating as Bronze Age tool - I will find out the outcome soon!
Be careful with the flo they lost Clergy's items.
I have heard a few stories like this - such a shame! I haven’t given it over. It’s just from pics they’re advising.
Could be something to do with stone masonry.
Yes possibly - though there’s not much damage to the chisel end…
Seems to be an awl. Size and point are spot on.
@@orome_best_valar8305 hi there - I got the verdict from the FLO and the Bronze Age specialist - it is believed to be a tool, a late BA chisel terminal!
A true artist you are inserting still scenes of landscapes and action shots with beautiful music in the background. Something i never had the patience to do. Regarding your find. WOW.. Whatever it is, it must have copper in it to turn green. So if it's copper, it may not be a tool. It's is more likely a spike for a weapon of some type. The key would be what material it's made of. That would give you a better idea of what it is. Great job young lady. Please keep up the excellent work!!!
Thanks for the lovely comment, glad you’re enjoying the vids! (And you’re right on the patience - it takes … a long time!) my understanding is that Bronze Age people did make tools (awls) from copper alloy? But anyway it’s with the FLO to research and I will come back and let you all know the outcome, for sure. Thanks for the ideas!
@@miss_detectorist commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bronze_Age_awl_%28FindID_236356%29.jpg check out this link..
I found a early Bronze age axe, a few years back. These are very rare in Norway were I live. This piece is now in the local museum.
How wonderful! Well done you
@@miss_detectorist Keep up the good work posting those videoes!
Definitely looks like some type of awl to me (in fact I would say 'Awl or Nothing!'🙂). Looking forward to the verdict from the Bronze Age specialist. Thanks for another great video Miss D, and also the brilliant article in this months' 'Searcher' mag!
Thanks Trevor I will update asap! I think it’s funny that I opened this video by saying Hello Awl!
@@miss_detectorist "Hello Awl"... Hmm, that's spooky how you managed to influence your find! Maybe in a future video you should try opening with "Welcome, me little treasures!" (spoken in your best Pirate accent of course). Probably best to avoid greeting us with "Now then you trash!" (spoken in an East End gangster accent). You're practicing these now, aren't you?!! 😉
@@trevorherald1164 haha now this is definitely something I can get behind! Good thinking.
Looks like a fork tyne?
It’s very large, a giant’s fork! A carving fork? Maybe… let’s see what the FLO comes back with. It is flat on the end rather than pointed like a fork
Ellie, it looks like a chisel.
I agree. Maybe there was a tang, now broken off, which fitted into a wooden handle, making a chisel for fine working.
That’s what FLO is thinking but it’s currently being checked with the Bronze Age specialist there
Try a magnet on it.
Did you watch the vid 😂
Great video! 🤘🏻
Cheers - thanks for watching!
It was near the surface
Yes it was. In a cultivated field. The Roman coin I found in the same field was also near the surface.
It might be the broken tine of a harrow. Modern ??
I don’t think so no - a) not iron based b) primitive in shape c) definitely hand made
Looks machine made
I don’t believe so. Has a definite hand made feel. FLO is on the case with a Bronze Age specialist - as you probably saw at the end of the vid. But at the very least it is hand forged (even if it turns out not to be dated that old) - we shall see!