Bill you are so much fun to watch even if you don't get anything great . It gets harder as we get older to. Do all the walking and bending and the eyes fAil us. But if I was on the Thames I would love it. Good luck digging for gold.
Chill Bill should have 100,000 subscribers. No one else on RU-vid can keep my attention for 47 minutes with plenty of chuckles too. 3-4 years now I’ve watched.
WOW 😮 Cheers my luver for the shout-out, I wondered why my Subs suddenly shot up. I'll be LIVE at 3pm (GMT). I've just started a new line of Merch with t-shirts/hoodies and they are flying like hotcakes
Epic adventure Clem and love your videos buddy. Nice Roman coin in the woods and about as random as my Roman Brooch in the woods too which was Really Random. So many coins from that woods and a few artefacts too. Absolutely awesome Clem ATB GL & HH LittleJohn_MD 🇬🇧
I enjoy your personality, don't change. I wish you could, however, learn to appreciate those buttons! I collect buttons, and some of them are $200.oo and more for just one button. I'm learning a lot about coins from you. Thank you.
I do appreciate the buttons. Im not a button hater like some. The cost the wearer way more than a copper coin to buy. I'm not a fan of shotgun carts though. :)
It looks like the kind of lead weight that ladies would sew into their hems in the 1920s to keep the garment from flying up in a breeze. It had the added benefit of making the garment hang and swing nicely.
Bill, we have some water soluble glue called Elmers Glue here in the US. If you mix a 50/50 mix of Elmers and water and dip the artifact/find in the mix and let dry- sometimes takes a few dips to coat. But the mix seeps and dries hard to protect the artifact/find. If you ever want to clean off the glue you can just rinse in water. You can experiment with it.
Hi Bill, i'm no treasure hunter, never done it, probably never will, i just like watching you find it but my thoughts are to set it in clear resin, once it;s set it will be there forever more!
A possible coin preservation solution : Carry a half filled wide mouthed water canteen with you in the field clipped to your belt. Put the coins in the canteen so they do not dry out. The sloshing water will help clean the mud off. When you get home, using tweezers dip the still damp coin in WATER based polyurethane or polycrylic. Don't let the coin dry out before dipping in poly. Poly comes in both oil and water base. Make sure to use water based. This should encapsulate the coin in plastic and preserve even the corrosion. Poly comes in matte or flat finish as well as gloss finish. Might be fun to experiment with each type finish. Your philanthropic water well projects are appreciated. Thanks for you videos.
Amazing how the coins react to the different soils. Some places the coppers come out readable and some whipped. Great thing about gold and silver though!! Not so much right!!!
Great video as per usual. Is the forest privately owned? I live not too far from you i think (department 14) and there's a big public forest near me with a Roman road going straight through it that I'd love to start detecting on. I'm guessing it's a no though with the French rules? 😊
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At some point, our modern garbage will be an artifact of the past and searched for. After exhausting an area or find a completely relic free area in the middle of nowhere people should gather worthwhile metal/glass items or maybe just nice pennies or new coins, buttons or ykk zippers or something we use all the time bury it a bit for metal detectorists a century from now to find. Although it would probably be mostly decayed powder within 40 years the way things are made now. Leave a message in coins as they dig it can be a clue to another spot. Like stapling a couple dollar bills on the inside of a sheetrock wall. One day someone will find it and more than likely want to or will tear the wall down in hopes of stacks of cash.
Did a screen capture and blew up the pictures and I am convinced that the little silver thing you found is a coin. I can see a faint cross in a circle of very blocky letters on the shiny side. It reminds me of Crusader coins of the 12th century. Definitely worth a careful and complete cleaning and examination under magnification. It looks like it has been hit with a hammer to erase the images, which itf it is Templar would make sense after the Order was Excommunicated, and having Templar coins might mark you as a sympathizer.
Timestamp 8:08 what do they do with the logs stacked up? you should get yourself some of those bandannas that you keep in the freezer, Take them with you wrap it around your head and neck will keep you a little cooler!
What was it about, ''Mad dogs and Englishmen'' Out in the Sun, finding remnants of thefts shotgun cartridges, pop-tabs, tin foil ? But I love his positivity. ...might be buried treasure here, there. Thousands spent on the gear, finding dimes. Lovely man, ya gotta have a hobby
Hey chill Bill love watching ur videos and all ur amazing finds. But was hoping u could help me identify some Romen coins I got my father for Christmas but can't find anything online about them. Could u help me if I send u pics of them plz.??
"Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life." - Humphrey Bogart from Casablanca. I need to read up on what you are supposed to do to clean an old coin since you mentioned not rubbing them so the image doesn't come off the surface. Or is that just a problem for how they made Romans?
Old copper and very old brozne will rust. This rust destroys the surface detail by turning it into a copper compound powder. It happens in most copper coins in most soils. I need a way of turning it back into metal. I think a furnace is the way to go.
do you display any of your finds? maybe something like your first find with a small write up (like: where, when, why, how ). do you coat them with anything to keep them from further degradation?
Allem bullets - WW1, WW2 battle debris, yeh? When I last took a detector to F, in 85, was left in no uncertain terms that detecting was illegal. I must be way out of date but have things changed ¿?
