3 treasure hunts in one! Epic Roman, Victorian and Tudor finds!
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- Опубліковано 28 лис 2020
- Join Si and friends as he goes all over the UK in search of long lost treasure. you won't believe what he finds, including Roman, Victorian and Tudor artifacts. Not only does he find them,, he restores and upcycles what he finds. More metal detecting • EPIC ancient GOLD foun...
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It was a promise ring. When the woman's finger turned green and she scratched the stone, she realized her intended wasn't the man she thought he was. She whipped it off her finger and threw it at him. It bounced off his chest and landed in the grass under the apple tree. There it stayed until Simon Bourne dug it up with the help of his rescue chickens.
You remember it well Mary ☺️
Lol
Great!
Great imagination!
Love the story!
just when I thought you were perfect you also rescue chickens!
Aw thanks 🐤
Right? Seriously cool.
@@Sifinds you must have dug up thousands of coins over the yrs?
This is truly amazing. And to top it off you rescue chickens. And so kind to a beautiful black cat. 💙💙
I was thinking the same thing.
I'm such a MUDLOVER! You truly are a unique, talented, and inspiring person!
Thanks Mudlover!! 👍🏻🐾🧡
Pocket knives: yup, my Dad always carried one. It was part of the morning: load up the pockets with wallet, keys, knife, coins, handkerchief, put on the wrist watch and he was ready for anything.
Aw bless him!
My dad used to carry one too, he would pull it out and use the small blade to clean out his finger nails. He was an electrician in a diesel train shop. Seemed like all the older men in my life carried one in the late 60s and early to mid 70s.
@@pennybundy972 Gonna say: mid to late 70's was when coppers started nickin folks/lads for 'carrying'.
Loved that your chicken said "thank you" after eating the worm.
She did!
That is so crazy how you found those coins and a ring right in your back yard. That was cool. I bet the chickens loved your digging the yard up. Neat to go mudlarking in other people's back yards. The bird box is nice! Birds got a nice home there.
Truck came out pretty awesome. Good job there!
Thanks for the kind words Sally 👍🏻🐾🧡
Si, this old yankee lady enjoys your videos so much. Love the historical finds, since I am also an amateur historian and really enjoy UK history. Would be so cool to have a pint in your garden and chat and watch chickens. I used to keep a good flock, myself. Interesting little dinosaurs. Keep up the good work. One of your many fans. It is my fantasy to get across the pond and maybe participate on a mudlark! I live in AZ and often find small shards of ancient native pottery in my backyard. There are a number of old Sinaguan ruins not far from my house.
Your welcome anytime. I used to know a Penny - wonderful lady! 👍🏻🐾🧡
@@Sifinds I hope to get a little faster, and puchase one of your upcycled antique bottles or a poison bottle, before they are all sold out.
I’m from Az too! Where do you live?
@@lyarnes Flagstaff
@@pennybundy972 I lived in Tucson for 31 years. Just moved to Portland. I’ve always wondered if those living in northern Az were able to find artifacts, etc. very cool that you have!
"I've got a little nob" don't worry mate your not alone there 😂
Tut Tut🤪
Lol
Did look cold that day
I'm sorry Si :(
I spit my water right out! Ha!
Chickens!!! ❤️ They all have such unique character too 🤗 loveing the garden finds!
Thanks Claire. Yes they do! 🐾👍🏻🧡
@@Sifinds Bless you for rescuing the chickens, Si ❤❤❤
Ok, so when you found the ring I thought for sure it was a yellow diamond, or at least a citrine set in sterling. Still, it is lovely!
The Roman coin was a beauty...and the restoration on the little truck was incredible! Well done all the way around!!!
Thanks Kathi!! 👍🏻🐾🧡
Love that you have rescue chickens....🙂
The pineapple is used as a symbol of welcome here in Colonial Williamsburg, introduced by the early English Settlers. Excellent finds and excellent rescue Chooks Si!
Thanks Jan 👍🏻🐾🧡
In South Carolina as well. The older ladies always have pineapples in their guest bed and bathrooms. Very popular on the topppers of 4 post beds.
The tale is when the pineapple is upside down, you have over stayed your welcome.😃 You know what they say about guests and fish. Both go bad after 3 days😂😂
I used to manage 2nd Street Restaurant and Tavern and the Polo Club Restaurant in Williamsburg for the Choany Brothers.
When you have bent items made of zinc diecast they can be straightened without breaking by heating in a house oven. Heat to 350 degrees, bend a little, heat again until straight. I have used this method on numerous vintage car parts.
Good idea. Cheers
Artifact hunting with Si and Nicola is on my bucket list!
✌🏻
How amazing us that bird box and to watch the chicks and mother and progress of them getting bigger fab and fab finds si
what a fully packed post! really enjoyable, Simon
magnificent butterfly colors at 26:00
the cap with the built in bottle opener made me laugh ... imagine someone unearthing that in 500 years trying to figure it out
Haha yeah! They’d find 50millions bottle caps first mind
Here from Iowa, USA. That hat with Kum & go, yeah, we smile, too. Kum & Go is the name of a gas station that carries some food and snacks, usually over priced. ☺️
What a coin haul! That coin of Domitian was especially exciting to see.
Thanks Dave 👍🏻🐾🧡
Not only do I still have my English Grandfathers pen knife but I always carry one in my pocket. Very utilitarian item.
Great video!!! Loved the toy gun. I'm a Kansas kid. Well, I was at one time. Over 50 ,but mentally 12...lol
I refuse to grow up.
I've recently discovered mudlarking thru your videos, Si. I'm a retired RN and am in no shape to go out excavating about in the outdoors. You and your friends bring me much joy with your sense of humor, love of old glass and bottles and stuff, and your creativity in reusing found objects in your art. Thank you!!
Thanks Martha! Glad you enjoy my Mudventures!!👍🏻🐾🧡
For a minute there I thought you were going to call the toy truck Si's Muck Truck
Haha. That would’ve been good!
Si Sunday! Awesome in your back yard!
I mean it is cool to find objects but in your own yard! You are finding coins older than our country ( not including the indigenous ppl), our flag and even me and you are saying it’s not old.
Thanks pal 👍🏻🐾🧡
Awww Sii, I love your chickens. I can't believe the things you find
Thanks Terri 👍🏻🐾🧡
Great video Si...I can't get my head around the fact that you're the first person to hold that coin since someone dropped it circa AD 80.......love the birdhouse...the wee slates on the roof!...cheers
@Maggie Larkin Agree with you comletely. Roam coin & slate shingles😊!
Thanks Maggie! Yes it’s quite amazing isn’t it!
Loved the restoration of the truck.
Cheers Adam! 🤜🏼🤛🏼
Love the Tudor bird house.
Wow!! Finding a coin some Roman who walked right there lost hundreds and hundreds of years ago is amazing!!!! Any video with Nicola White in it is a treasure in its own right.
I bet Marty's Matchbox Makeovers from "Down Under" would have loved to have taken a shot at the little truck, but you still did well.
OMG I look terrible lmfao but I still have your little nob Si-finds xxx it was a fab day and enjoyed every minute with the both of you xxx
Hey Sam! Was a very fun day. You looked lovely! 👍🏻🧡
"An old "veil hat"...lol...that hit my funny bone...lol...that just hit right...all the coins, Si, don't spend it all at once! Love watching you scope out. Your chickens look fat and happy.
I have been looking forward to seeing you. Thanks Si☮️❤️
Hey LS! Thank you!
the hens are all happy...TREASURE!!! What a great idea to do the yard today. Kum and Go is a mid-west ( US) convenience store chain. The bottle opener says it all. A hat favored by Good Ol' Boys. Here in the US we can call a number and get the yard cleared for digging , Need to make sure where the utility lines are laid. Lovely little bird box, so happy it is well and thoughtfully constructed. Thanks for the great day out
Thanks Martha. Very interesting! 👍🏻🐾🧡
What a great episode
Love the truck
Love waking up to Si finds! Wishing you peace and good health. Sending❤️ from Oregon.
Thanks Stef! 👍🏻🐾🧡
@@Sifinds of course your the best!🐾❤️
I enjoyed that more than usual, I don't know why . Great finds in your garden and that bird house is adorable. Thanks for sharing
Many thanks!! 👍🏻🐾🧡
Si you are awesome, well done on the little truck, enjoy watching you with Nic and Matt, can’t wait for your next video. Thanks take care stay safe and healthy. Ontario Canada ❤️🇨🇦👍👍
Thank you! 👍🏻🐾🧡
HAS ANYBODY SEEN WARBURTON???? 😂😂😂
So you have been living on a pile of treasure and never knew. Gonna be digging a test pit in my garden now for sure as it had an old dump in it. The goat skull is awesome. Always love the vids you do with Nicola, you two are a dream team. 😍
With your luck Simon you should buy a lottery ticket !!! Whenever I watch the videos you always seem to come up with a star find.
Thank you. It takes a lot of work 👍🏻🐾🧡
@@Sifinds Amen, not to mention the research!
Super Roman find! And your Tudor inspired bird house is so cute + the bird family in it was lovely. Good restoration on the little truck as well.
Thank you! 😊👍🏻👣🧡
I love the respect you and other detectors show to other people's property when you are out metal detecting. The fact that you carefully fill in holes, etc. leaves a good impression with land owners. Word spreads. And that make it easier for others to get permission there and other places in the future.
My dad always carried a pocket knife--never got rid of them once they were worn somewhat. When he died--hia sons and grandsons were his pall bearers and were given one of the knives he'd kept all those years--a small memento from the last honor they gave him.
Aw how sweet
Great eclectic mix of mudlarking days!
Fun, fun, fun! beautiful Roman coin 💙
Thanks Si - love from Denmark 🌸 💕
Thanks Z 👍🏻🐾🧡
I look forward to watching you on your adventures every Sunday Si and Gang. Can't wait to get out detecting again myself in Somerset
Hi neighbour. I'm in Somerset too.
@@drogna3905 hey, nice to know i'm not alone.
@@19daveh54 I don't do any detecting but I love history. I'm in Bridgwater. Lots of mud in the River Parrot but it's a death trap lol
@@drogna3905 That's why I do it. Never know what each signal is gonna be. 👍
Hiya. My grandparents lived in Bridgwater
Si, I love you even more for rescuing chickens!
Thanks x 👍🏻🐾🧡
Hey Si, coffee in hand and Si on my iPhone. Best way to start the day!! Woohoo!
You and the lads finding the big ball in the river was one of my fav videos Si.
Love seeing your restorations at the end.
Yay you got the gag! Thanks for the kind words 👍🏻🐾🧡
Ohhh, me too‼️🥰I laughed and tugged and problem~solved right along with them...I would have brought lunch and some brownies for the crew and sat creek~side to watch it all if I was so lucky to have been in England at the time❣️❣️Such great entertainment...live‼️💜Carry on, Boys‼️
My Highlight every Sunday! Keep it up Si! I think you should do daily updates/posts on your Instagram of what you’re up to I’m sure we’re all interested!
Yep! I’m really interested too. I don’t do instagram or Facebook so I think I miss some of his later results etc.
Wow one of my favourite episodes!
Hey Simon, fun video and you're sweetheart for rescuing chickens. Bless you!
My Dad, Mother, brothers and husband all carried pen knives plus my sons also do.
Here in Colorado they're are a lot of Kum and Go's. Your chickens rock!!!
Haha. Cheers 🐤
I ABSOLUTELY LOOOOOVE the birdhouse !!! ❤ Mail me one,,, PLEASE ! 😂😂😂
What a great job you did with the toy truck. Love the ring you found in your back yard. And all that money. Simon you are very talented. Keep up the great work....
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My man" missed a musket ball during the second belt buckle!
You really can restore anything, love the truck oh yeah my condolences on your little knob......lol :)
Haha! It was just cold that day 😉
Pretty yard. I like the ladies clucking around! Thanks for rescuing them.
You have the richiest garden of UA-cam!!! Hugs from Brasil!!!
Love Mud Lover's pray all is well God Bless have great day
Thanks Mudlover! 🧡🐾👍🏻
One explanation for the coins in the garden may be visiting the pub after metal detecting and stumbling back home ;) haha!
Haha 👍🏻🐾🧡
@@Sifinds i had a really random question, do you have particular access to old maps to research old dump sites? Or is it readily available?.. i have tried to find some for where i live and many dont go particularly far back and those that do dont have much info on them!.. not the info im after anyway! 😁
Very jealous of your hobby.. i moved from London 10 years ago to Plymouth and wish i spent more time doing exactly what you do! Maybe i was too young to appreciate it!
I think the lovely little cutout designs on the side of that ring are stylized tulips. So very beautiful! What a heartbreak for the person who lost it...!
Si that's so lovely that you have rescue chickens. A rescue animal is what got me through the death of my daughter, just having a little life to take care of gave me purpose so rescue animals truly can rescue us as much as we rescue them. Her beak gives her great character, very sweet chickens.
Respect x
@@Sifinds 😘
My heart goes out to you. 🥀💔❤️
Beautiful detail on the ring.
I would have that ring checked out by someone.
I confess, I was fully expecting that ball to start ticking and was waiting to see how fast you could get out of that river with your wellies on!
Haha 😆
My daughter had a sweet red hen called CROSS BEAK with a truly crossed beak! She cared for her until she died at 8! She got extra feed 🐓So wonderful of you to rescue the girls.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻You are so creative with your content!!! I love that you have surrounded yourself with history! I love the background of your home. It’s so fitting for your vocation and philosophy! This is one of my favorite videos! Seeing you and Nicola together is such a treat! Love your banter!!! So fun to have Matt along for some ancient finds!!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks Nancy!!
Baby birds give the biggest mouths. It's like their whole heads are hinged to fold open. 😆
My grandfather carried a penknife too! And actual handkerchief. The pen knife was really only use to clean his fingernails though LOL
That and the little coin purse. All necessities for a modern gentlemen.
See!
My father also. However he chose to use his handkerchief to wipe anything he found using his knife!
My grandpa was the same. He used his for cleaning his nails and whittling.
"I got a little knob!"....LMAO!
This man is a beautiful sensitive soul.
Who needs Neflix?
Watching with a cup of hot choc with a subtle dash of orange liqueur as the east coast Irish sunset oozes through my window.
After a terrible year....si make me smile. Xx
Well I learnt something new today, who knew a 'florin' was a thing?! (now added to my list of things to find!) I love the truck! You have the patience of a Saint, I would have given up the second it broke! 😂 Thanks for another amazing video! 😘💕
Thanks Beth!! You been out much? 👍🏻🧡🧡
We, in Australia, had florins up until about 1930. A threepenny piece was thrupence, a sixpence was a Zac, and I think they called a shilling a deena. Then we went to decimal currency on Feb 14, 1966.
Kum & Go.....hysterical, that is a quickie gas station chain based in Des Moines Iowa USA..
There's a chain called Pump n' Munch in Minnesota. They have to know, right?😂
@@hartsm76 This is correct....and "Kwik Trip" in Wisconsin as well...name does carry the same "double entendre" as the other two..
Hi Mudlover I really enjoyed this video beautiful finds hope u well was on holiday take care mudlover 👣💯👌🌸
Thank you!
Great finds , love the ring , love what you did with the truck xx
Tudor birdhouse fantastic!!!
Just what Sunday needed, this was quite different today and it was really good, my favourite bits .... The chickens, and of coarse the Lovely Nicola too 😘👍🏻
Hi, Living on a farm always had a pocket knife on me. In school the art teacher use to borrow it to sharpen his art pencils. Back in the 50's mind.
Cool!
Oh nice video! I always look forward to hearing your lovely voice.
Thank you 👍🏻🐾🧡
Si, the Meccano marque was dropped from Dinky cars in August 1935, so that model must pre date this, nice find !
Ah wow! Didn’t think it was that early cool!!
Unfortunately thats not true, right next to me is a dinky triumph spitfire that says Meccano on it. The details and layout of the base plates changed and you can date them with the right guidance, lots of help is available online. With that model of truck a good rough guide is that smooth wheels are pre war and wheels with a ridge are post war. Not 100 percent but good approximation.
Kum & Go is a US convenience store chain. Gas diesel and a store with odds & ends plus some food items.
What the British would call a petrol station.
Cool cheers
Yes it started in Iowa in the Midwest
@@sassmacfru And people have felt weird about it ever since.
I laughed the first time I saw one in Oklahoma.
I remember the big ball! 😂
As the young maiden looked at her ring, admiring it because it was from the boy from the farm down the street from her father's farm. Her head shot up because all of a sudden she heard her father calling her. He mustn't see the ring, she thought. Her hands were shaking as her father's footsteps were getting closer, just then she dropped the ring as her father turned to see her. He asked her what she was doing in the orchard and she replied, Just walking. He told her to get up to the house to help her mom in the kitchen for supper. She stepped on the ring to hide it from her father. She thought, I'll remember where it is. She went up to the house not knowing that she would never see the ring again.
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Love watching the 3 videos!! I can't believe all the great items that you found in your backyard. I thought it was an art deco ring when I first saw it. England is full of treasures like that in the ground and in the muck. I think it was so cool of an idea to check your own yard.
Thanks for a very enjoyable video!!😍 💍
I've found arrowheads, coins,bullets,and old tools on my property. The neighbors told me our area was a big family farm before the houses went up. 👍
Nice one!
Hilarious when you try to cover when you said "I have a little knob".
😉
Nice finds in your yard. I've detected parts of my yard. It used to be a farm field, so most the finds were at the ends. The most interesting was a key ring full of dog tags from several years through the 70s. They were in the shape of the state of Michigan. I didn't find as many coins as you and they were all modern.
Interesting restore on the truck. You're a true artist 👍
Thanks Jim, thought it was going to be a non starter when it busted. Persistence prevails. Not military dog tags? Dog dog tags right?
@@Sifinds yes, dog dog tags. I found a toy cap pistol too.
That is so cool - to think a Victorian person dropped a coin in your very own yard over 100 years ago, and shrapnel from WWII as well! Fascinating! Thank you for rescuing those lovely hens - they have such a beautiful color and the wonky beak just gives her personality. I have one of your chicken mugs so I have my coffee with them every morning!
That’s awesome Robin!!
The video that just kept on giving. Definitely a favorite. Thanks for this.
Thanks 👍🏻🐾🧡
Me too. Just loved this episode. A triple header. Fancy scoring a Roman coin!!!! That won’t happen in Australia!
RING WAS BEUTIFULL IF IT COULD ONLY TALK
Right?!
It would say "how could you I never want to see you again". Ouch.
Thanks Si. Remarkable what you found in your own garden plus you had the sweetest chickens for company! Love Victorian rings. They many times have secret meaning. If you hold it by the band with the stone pointing down towards the ground , the setting and stone form a basket with the band as its carrying handle.💜
Thanks Annette 👍🏻🐾🧡
Really liked the ring. Can't believe you didn't check your own property as soon as you got a detector.
The first time I cleaned up an English coin and saw the ship appearing, I was so stoked! 1935, LOL.
Cool!
Had t0 get my Sci-Fi weekly fix!
Welcome! 👍🏻🐾🧡
Hi Si-Finds love your work channel a big inspiration for us and our kids we've been digging in an old bottle dump in Keswick in the lakes and found some good glass just wondering which bottle cutters your familiar with and if you had any recommendations many thanks.
Tile cutter from Screwfix 👍🏻
Great video!! Love the chickens! They've certainly got character!!😉
So inspiring all. Thanks
Thanks Sally! 👍🏻🐾🧡
@@Sifinds Truly. You guys are great
Perfect combination, happy chickens and successful Si- Finds really interesting backyard dig
If the apple trees are really old what kind are the apples?
Trying reeallllly hard not to make any “little knob” jokes. 😂
😂
im normally the one with the filthy mouth and then i have to suffer the wrath of Si.i decided to hold back this time.
I love Marty’s Matchbox makeovers. He has really good tips for restoring matchbox, dinky hot wheels...
Love that ole truck restoration...THAT WAS REALLY A LABOR OF LOVE ❤️...and a little of OCD imagination and ‘making do’ as my Ganny and my Dad used to say and do in Fixin’ ’ things up❣️” No need to throw it out just yet....still has some life in her‼️”
I found a coin dated 1700 in the garden. It was just William, no Mary. Still have it.
Dalmatians LOL
I love coins from WW1 and 11. ❤️
Yes. Granddads (both), dad and I too. Mine is of the Swiss army variety. Best make-do tool ever.