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seagurn

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Feb 19, 2007
1,971
County town
My son found an Irish token made from a copper aloy it was used to wiegh portugese gold and the finds liason officer at Lewes castle gave us all the info as its quite rare and had to go on a data base and it was from 1718 !! Not worth much but when he handed it to me i dismissed it as a button !
My brother found a Worthing ginger beer bottle which the makers name was Tutts from worthing and sold it for £400 !!
 




Igzilla

Well-known member
Sep 27, 2012
1,747
Worthing
I once found a hop token in my back garden at home in Shoreham when I was a boy. Took it to the Marlipins Museum for identification and gave it to them. At the time I thought it was medieval, but was probably Georgian/Victorian.
 


SIMMO SAYS

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Jul 31, 2012
11,750
Incommunicado
I once found a hop token in my back garden at home in Shoreham when I was a boy. Took it to the Marlipins Museum for identification and gave it to them. At the time I thought it was medieval, but was probably Georgian/Victorian.

Although not found in the garden we found a hand written note on the back of some panels in a bungalow on Shoreham Beach ten years ago.
It was from a Canadian soldier who was posted there to protect us from invasion.
He was missing home!
The owner took it to Marlipins Museum as far as I remember.
 


Igzilla

Well-known member
Sep 27, 2012
1,747
Worthing
Although not found in the garden we found a hand written note on the back of some panels in a bungalow on Shoreham Beach ten years ago.
It was from a Canadian soldier who was posted there to protect us from invasion.
He was missing home!
The owner took it to Marlipins Museum as far as I remember.

We had our hall redecorated a couple of years back and when our mate had stripped the wallpaper off, written on the plaster underneath in pencil was a note from 1957, with the name of the bloke who presumably put the first layer up.
 




Wrong-Direction

Well-known member
Mar 10, 2013
13,819
I dug up an air raid shelter in my garden - it was to take the families of the four terraced houses in my road so was quite big.
Had reinforced roof made up of old curved railings - I took my chimneys down and filled the hole up with the rubble so it came in handy really :)
You forget to mention the German bayonet you found in there

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seagurn

Well-known member
Feb 19, 2007
1,971
County town
I just went out in the garden and came back in to find some dog shit on my shoe...
Can't always be lucky i suppose we only borrow luck .
 




Cheshire Cat

The most curious thing..
All I've ever found are old bricks from when the house was built :(
 






8ace

Banned
Jul 21, 2003
23,811
Brighton
An amethyst crystal

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