A few more finds from the local fields.
At the moment the weather gods are being kind to me all be it some of the fields are impossible to dig due to the amount of surface water (heavy clay type soil) but going up to the higher ground can make life a bit easier.
I have tried to explain with the help of Google a couple of the finds.
Thanks for looking...........Doug.
Assortment of finds.Old ring bottom left.
"The Venetians were notorious traders in the late medieval period with trade networks covering the Mediterranean and Europe. The Venetian fleet of galleys set out for England during May and stayed there until late August or early September, During these summer months soldini entered the English economy through trade with Venetian merchants and quickly became widespread across England.
The soldino, meaning ‘little shilling’ became nicknamed the ‘galyhalpens’, or Galley-halfpence, after the ‘Galley-men’ who imported them. While the general population was enjoying these new exotic coins, the government was grappling with two major problems.
The first was that the soldino was an illegally imported coin, and the second was that it weighed slightly less than an English halfpenny but mimicked it nonetheless. Soldini therefore became a particular source of irritation for the English government."
1486-1538
Victorian/Edwardian seal intaglio.
Dockworkers or tool metal tally disc.
Below there is a reference to metal tally discs in a miners lamp room.
Hand over your tally disc you are given a lamp they also know how many miners are down on the coal face by 'tallying' up the metal discs
At the moment the weather gods are being kind to me all be it some of the fields are impossible to dig due to the amount of surface water (heavy clay type soil) but going up to the higher ground can make life a bit easier.
I have tried to explain with the help of Google a couple of the finds.
Thanks for looking...........Doug.
Assortment of finds.Old ring bottom left.
"The Venetians were notorious traders in the late medieval period with trade networks covering the Mediterranean and Europe. The Venetian fleet of galleys set out for England during May and stayed there until late August or early September, During these summer months soldini entered the English economy through trade with Venetian merchants and quickly became widespread across England.
The soldino, meaning ‘little shilling’ became nicknamed the ‘galyhalpens’, or Galley-halfpence, after the ‘Galley-men’ who imported them. While the general population was enjoying these new exotic coins, the government was grappling with two major problems.
The first was that the soldino was an illegally imported coin, and the second was that it weighed slightly less than an English halfpenny but mimicked it nonetheless. Soldini therefore became a particular source of irritation for the English government."
1486-1538
Victorian/Edwardian seal intaglio.
Dockworkers or tool metal tally disc.
Below there is a reference to metal tally discs in a miners lamp room.
Hand over your tally disc you are given a lamp they also know how many miners are down on the coal face by 'tallying' up the metal discs
