I like this as much for your soothing Scottish accent and clear explanations of history as for your interesting finds.

First time viewing your channel. I'm impressed. The piece of copper/brass with the writing on it is a zipper pull, I think. The silver band is very interesting. As you know, silversmithing is highly regulated. That's why everything has a smith's mark. Taxes paid, trademark entered, etc. As a tinsmith, I know that when sheet metal is cut with shears it naturally will roll up like that. I think it is possible that someone was altering or reworking a piece and needed to remove the original smiths mark. That scrap was headed for the crucible. Thanks. Cheers.

I think the stone is green jasper, which can be found in Angus. Could the stone maybe have been used in parchment making? Stones were used to rub pastes into the parchment to smooth and whiten it.

I enjoy your accent, I love to watch your adventures🙂

Great video John. The bronze piece at one angle looked like the head and neck of an animal. Best wishes for 2023!

I would like to see the cleaned up items at the end of each video please.

Veri nice my friend top finds hello from croatia 🙂🇭🇷💪🏻

Greetings from Alabama USA. Enjoyed the vid.

Thanks for another video yes we got a lot of snow and high winds in Ontario Canada lots of accidents power outages we are near the American Border

I believe that round polished stone has the Knights Templar Cross on it. I've seen them on the treasure hunt at Oak Island. They also observed them in France at Templer structures. Have a healthy New Year.

Need a little duffle as part of your gear. I have one that I keep extra batteries, drinking water or such, gloves and all associated gear to keep you on the fields.

yay going to listen to this one now :)

Just wanted to say I love your vids, your knowledge of history and obvious joy at what you and the boys find. Your green stone celtic cross stone however I think..is potentially one of the most stunning significant finds you've come across. The stone itself was selected for a reason...its amazing. Can't wait to hear what the experts opinion is...Brilliant! And keep up the good work mate. Happy Xmas to you all..

Another great video John. All the best for 2023.

G’day John. That writing appears to be James Yates, a very large pewter manufacturing firm in the 19th and early 20thC. Buggered if I know what it is. Must be one of there more obscure items. The bottom word might be warranted, or patented? I wonder if your old stone might be for burnishing vellum parchment?? It has that personal look to it. If so, presumably medieval, maybe early medieval. A really nice find. Congrats, Wayne

Great watching John interesting strip of silver? Still no positive id on the cross stone yet i take, please keep us posted my mate, regards kelv.

Hello John, Looked like a great hunt! I believe your bit of silver was an embellishment on a stoneware tankard, cup, or pitcher. I’ve seen them trimmed with silver banding just like that! Take care, and happy hunting!

Great video. I hope to visit Scotland one day. Beautiful place with a lot of history.

Happy New Year! Look forward to more of you digs in the new year - have a good one! 🎉

Good morning from Long Island, New York. Happy Holidays and a prosperous detecting New Year. On to the next!💪🙏☮️

Fantastic video and great finds! Happy hunting ✌🏼❤️😊🍀

First video i watch from you and i love your accent!

I hope you are doing well. Hopefully you won’t get the-30 windchill like we did here in the Midwest of America. Good digging to you!😊

Congratulations on the 9k subs, well deserved. Keep up the great content.

always enjoy your videos the button and stone , stunning finds . have a good new year i know its late .

We here in the good ol USA dream of detecting fields like this!!! Great finds there and Happy New Year to you and your family....from Mike in sunny Florida

Glad the perma frost has buggered off. A relaxing boxing day viewing, indeed. 9 K .Let's go.!! Bless up bro 👊

Very happy about this channel....people recognize the real metal detecting passion...respect man from a beach hunter ....keep it real

Putting your Christmas presents to great use 🎁 Martyn’s dogs are such great helpers 😂 🎉🎉🎉9k followers 🎉🎉🎉

Nice finds! And another sub...

Interesting bit of silver. Marty should have named Wilson, Flash. And always good to see Lexie. Great bit of kit you got for Christmas. Happy New Year, or Hogmanay.

Very interesting, subscribed !

first one of your videos i have seen, i am a yank, a texas yank. i have a slight bit different accent than y’all, but i do really enjoy y’all’s. my mothers people were McDaniels, we have traced the family back to the time of robert the bruce. i definitely enjoyed you video and i am looking forward to seeing more. good luck

very cool...looks to be a unique site!

Loved this hunt the stone is amazing, nice finds think the horse brass is Georgian furniture fitting

Wouldn't have found this channel without cleggy's shout out. Love it. Cheers.

Hey John If you ever get massive and start merchandising shirts that say "Tractor Related" Ill be your first customer.

I was surprised to see the bridle rosette you uncovered at the 13:00 min.mark. I uncovered an identical rosette in a farm field here in Brandywine, Maryland a couple of yrs. ago. Thanks for the good content and a Happy New Year!

Wingsandbeaks here ~ Your new Christian stone may have originated somewhere far away and been dropped. Let us know in a follow up when you find out. 0:00

Nicely done I enjoyed the video, and I love me some Clegg I think the Gentlemen comment was out of line. 🇺🇸

The stone may have been used as a good luck charm and rubbed before a battle or when troubles arose.

I think your green stone has come from a pilgrimage to Iona Abbey as they can be found on the beach there

Just stumbled across your channel. Subscribed 👍🏻😎

Great vid as usual John!! Always top of my viewing list!! In new year you ought to entertain the though of collaborating with HH Sagas in UK! You two are deffinitly the History Professors of Metal detecting On KZfaq!! #1 You guys could have a TV show as well as being professionals !!! Just a thought? Happy New Year John!!!!! 👍👍👍👍👍

Sadly John is holding back the goodies to Next year. Lady who has to be obedient, has Visit from her Chief. So good luck to John Happy Hunting New year 😜🔝❤️

The stone with the cross looks like it could be made from Bloodstone with the green hue to it and the small red/orange markings. There is a small outcrop of bloodstone on the Isle of Rum in the Inner Hebridese, if my memory serves me right I believe all other bloodstone is found very far from the UK. Love your videos! Cheers, Mark H

Well I enjoy cleggy,s channel, click bait and all. He puts a lot of work in to provide entertainment. Slainte 🍷

The Stone with the Cross looks interesting. I would have thought the stone would have been polished with wax or something to bring the colour out. Maybe from a religious Mace or Staff. 👍

I put everything that I need for detecting in the one rucksack and it stays in there so nothing is ever forgotten

great vid. subbed.

The round thing ( horse brass ) looks like half a small door knocker, the plate you knock on. We had them on all the doors in our house , the servants used them back in the day

I love you guys puppies they will love you to the end of days for takin them detecting 😆. You gotta great field there keep pulling the treasure fellas!! Luck is on you guys side. I believe y'all will find much more speacial finds in that permission. I just have a feeling

Maybe the button is a hunting dog and it was off a hunting jacket, and back in the day they used to cut bits off silver items to sell it as its had to have the hallmark on it and that's why alot of silver thimbles are missing bottom

Liked before intro 😎

I think the dogs are hoping you will dig up some potatoes. lol

Sometimes Romans used to write curses on lead

Hiya, newbies here enjoying your videos. We think the "horse brass" may actually be part of a furniture handle where the circular handle sat inside the outside ring and lifted up to operate the door/drawer. Could be wrong!😁

Cool earphones brother John

That copper/bronze "comb" or rake is curious. Those metals are unusual in agriculture from the Iron Age on. I would wonder about a fragment of something from WW II.

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We call them ball buttons.

That has to be the dirtiest coil I have ever seen in a video. 👍

Maybe they used the stone to sharpen a sword again with cross I think its something to do with the knights templar

Great video John, from comments below i take it your name is John. Some very interesting finds. I really enjoyed watching great to see what other people are finding. Got a new 15" coil from Santa was out myself testing it on Boxing day expecting to find nothing so didn't take my camera. Found 2 musket balls and a few old coins in a park walking distance from my home typical.... Anyway greetings from Ireland new Subscriber here.. Regards Heavydigging 👍👍

That's like that silver cross your mate found

9k Subs, hell yeah!

The ting you sed was a horse brass i might be but i do remember my mum used to have a set of draws that had the same thing at handles there was a ring that was hinged from the hole at the tip and sat just inside the rope part unless the set if draws wear re done and hose horse brass used as handles

Tip…tie your brush to your shovel.

I've detected along wagon trails in California far younger than your trackway. But, people regularly following those in wagons seemed to perpetually have bits falling of the wagons, oxen losing shoes, shells from hunting for the pot from the wagon seat, and liquour empties being tossed. Didn't find any coins. That piece of mixed cuprous and ferrous metals with the stamped lettering, could that bit you read as "Trois" be "Tho's," which is a common 19th century abbreviation for "Thomas?" If that's possible, the second word might be the surname "Watts." Recent historical material materials can be as archaeologically puzzling as older objects. Take it from a retired archaeologist who has worked on everything from the late Pleistocene to WW II era sites in the US.

The Button, if it is livery, seems to be a Wolf, and would be a badge f the estate the coat came from.

A fantastic stone, I would hear the opinion of a geologist for dating. Grazie per le immagini.

The disk object (horse brass? not sure) at 13:07, looks to have an edelweiss flower on it however I could be wrong.

The stone looks like agrellite, ive found ancient Maori axe heads in new zealand made of that and looks similar color

Speaking of forgetting equipment: I went deer hunting one time and forgot my boots. As fate would have it, I ended up shooting a 180 lbs. whitetail buck and had to drag it 500 yards in flip-flops! I went another time and forgot my bullets! I still sat there and watched the deer, of course. I don't think you'd forget your detector and walk around the field swinging your bare arm. LOL

Hi John, love the video. BTW I've just come across a UTUBE site & his last video is amazing! Coin spill. WOW! He's ''Silver Boy Detecting'' All the best for 2023, cheers, John..

Great Video, indeed. But what I don't get is that people always lose their coins.

Love your videos…keep it up! I would love to know more about your JVC headphones that have been modified to fit the receiver which is clipped on. Any chance you could provide a link to where you got them from? Thanks! Can’t wait for your next video!

5:15 - that could have been made anytime in the 19OOs too

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Thank you so much for your great videos and wonderful history. I have what is probably a really stupid question from a non-detector but a magpie prone to pick the odd relic. Why so many coins? I would think that coins would be the last thing to become "lost" regardless of the time period. Were coins not used as payment for goods? Maybe there was more bartering and trading for goods? I understand the bullets and musket balls in the fields but money??? Thanks in advance for any explanation.

Could the button be a Wolf Hound maybe? Looks quite large...although, I'm not sure the tail fits...unless, I'm looking at it all wrong and it's a fox 😅

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Looks like an arrow tip for hunting maybe.

I think the round flat object you found is actually a draw handle the square hole is for the bolt,the little hole is for a small screw hole this helps

Ya would not have thunk the scoots would have lost much , lol,

Good hunt. Any hunt that turns up silver is good. Don’t know what it is though. Be interesting to find out

Thanks for getting out, John! Can you tell us the weight of the stone with cross?

Lovely Viccy. Always prefer her coins to her mutant kids. Where did you get the gloves? 😀

When you have an item with an inscription that’s hard to read, put a piece of paper over it and lightly rub a pencil over it until the image is visible. You should be able to read it more easily.

should add a magnifying glass to your list of things to bring.

The strip of silver is from the rim from a horn drinking cup

, at 12.9 minutes; fragment of a Roman fibula in bronze.

Please John try to remember your 🪥 toothbrush please stop saying in each episode five or so times that you've forgotten it, drives me mental 👍

Monks used stones to wear away the hair on the tops of their heads maybe it is polished after constant rubbing on a monks head

Check list - also - fully charged coil - full water bottle 😁😁😁😁🇨🇦

14.00 its the back plate of a 1930s draw pull,,,,,,nothing to do with horses

Here's a conundrum for all you Scots. My grand mum was a Wallace but once she married she became a Gildard. The only record that I can find is Gildard and sons ,solicitors Glasgow. Any help would be appreciated.

30:47 - Scottish woolfhound?

That stone I'd say templar

A mole with a gold tooth…lol! I am pretty sure I have chased some of his American cousins!