Metal Detecting (Including Finds).

[Accyexplorer]

I also dug up this hexagon shaped (cricket umpires?) article.
It's engraved with the words "no ball,caught,LBW" etc.

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[DaveinGermany]

Originally Posted by Accyexplorer

I also dug up this hexagon shaped (cricket umpires?) article.
It's engraved with the words "no ball,caught,LBW" etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owzthat

It's a part from a game called "Owzthat" I vaguely recall playing it round a cricket mad mates house, that & subutteo on wet weekends. Funnily enough he was called David Lloyd & came from Blackpool.

[Accyexplorer]

Originally Posted by DaveinGermany

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owzthat

It's a part from a game called "Owzthat" I vaguely recall playing it round a cricket mad mates house, that & subutteo on wet weekends. Funnily enough he was called David Lloyd & came from Blackpool.

Cheers for that D,go to the top of the class,I didn't have the foggiest what it was.
I could get my head around why a umpire would need such a article.

[Accyexplorer]

Here's another little object I found a small thimble like object with a green (glass?) dice inside.
However,I can't see folk back in the day being able to put the dice marking on a glass dice without it breaking


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[DaveinGermany]

I believe it is a thimble & it's being used to protect the glass dice in this instance.

[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by Accyexplorer

Here's another little object I found a small thimble like object with a green (glass?) dice inside.
However,I can't see folk back in the day being able to put the dice marking on a glass dice without it breaking


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Why should they not be able to put spots on glass, just look in any museum at some of the ancient artifacts, and spots on a dice would be a piece of cake. That lot looks like it became jammed in the thimble.

[Accyexplorer]

Originally Posted by Retlaw

Why should they not be able to put spots on glass, just look in any museum at some of the ancient artifacts, and spots on a dice would be a piece of cake. That lot looks like it became jammed in the thimble.

I'll take your word for it R.
I know with modern day lasers etc it would be easy to mark the glass but I erroneously assumed that due to its size,approximately half inch squared, the surface area would be extremely difficult to work with the technology of days gone by without it shattering....

...we live and learn

[MargaretR]

I have a thimble identical to that one (same pattern) - owned by my grandmother - look for a hallmark - mine is silver.

[Accyexplorer]

Originally Posted by MargaretR

I have a thimble identical to that one (same pattern) - owned by my grandmother - look for a hallmark - mine is silver.

Sadly,there is no hallmark so I suspect it's probably a mixture of other metals
That being said,there is no signs of corrosion something that would be obvious if it was a mixture of metals.

[Accyexplorer]

Today's items of note include:-

2 shoe buckles?
2 old pennies (1898&1896)
1 ARP (cap badge?)
1 decapitated lead figure
1 old 10p coin and £6.40 in spendable coins.

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[Accyexplorer]

Any golfers out there know what this item was used for?

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[Stevie R]

Originally Posted by Accyexplorer

Any golfers out there know what this item was used for?

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Looks like a spinning top which determines play or forfeit in a game I know nothing about..

[Mick]

Originally Posted by Accyexplorer

Any golfers out there know what this item was used for?

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its the Golf equivalent of the cricket game one you found in an earlier post

[gpick24]

Put and take game -
http://averweij.web.cern.ch/averweij/top-pt.htm

[Accyexplorer]

Today's finds of note include:-

2 old pennies (1867 & 1919)
1 half a crown (1948)
1 handgranade (key charm?)

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