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Our Buckles & Bells Finds

I would like to take this opportunity of thanking all of the Weekend Wanderers members who have given me permission to display their finds on this web page.

One of our FLO's Ros Tyrell send the picture below after recording it for the finder

A Roman strap end found by Barry Fitzjohn

WW member Charles Wood found this lovely Saxon Strap end on our 2004 Christmas dig.

Charles tells me that he picket it up at about 6" depth using a Minelab Explorer XS

David Gearing found the item above on a recent Buckinghamshire dig.
David tells me that the item is a 13-14 century spur strapend.

Peter managed an hours detecting at a recent mid-week dig in Buckinghamshire and found the bell shown below.

The bell is a cow type, quite heavy and fits into the palm of a hand being about 2" by 1".

The lovely Saxon strap-end was found by Jim Sewell at out 2002 Christmas dig when he should have been looking for tokens !!

Thanks to Terry Austin for sending me the picture and details below of a find he made on a Weekend Wanderers dig last year.. 

The picture shows a 9th Century Anglo-Saxon silver strap-end which has been identified by the British museum and valued by Bonhams.  The item was declared as  treasure and containined at least 93% silver, the Winchester museum service has expressed an interest in purchasing the item.

The museum identified the strap-end as being of the Trewhiddle type named as such after the hoard of coins bearing similar markings was found at Trewhiddle in Cornwall, they also stated that the item was used for fine braids or straps and was a relatively common dress element of the 9th century.

Found by David Roberts in Hertfordshire at the Weekend Wanderers meeting on 21^st July 2002.

Small bronze strap end of unknown date – some say of Saxon origin and some say Medieval?

Many thanks to Chris Wharton for sending me the picture of the lovely Buckle he found on one of our Bourne End digs.

A nice little buckle most of the gilding has disappeared but traces still remain, the date falls most likely between1270-1350 photographed by Graham Stringer.

Many thanks to Graham Stringer for sending me the lovely picture below of a cast Bronze Roman bell found on a recent Hertfordshire dig.

Graham tells me that apparently they were hung in doorways together with lamps as protection against evil spirits.

Thanks to Brian Dumpleton for sending me the picture of the very large rumbler bell he dug recently.

We believe this to be a horse bell circa 1750.

The lovely Medieval buckle shown below was found on a recent wanderers outing to Buckinghamshire by Grahame Payne

Thanks for letting me show your find here Grahame.

The beautiful buckle shown below was found on a recent Wanderers dig, I think it is the nicest buckle I have seen.

I must apologise to the finder as I'm afraid I didn't write your name down and I cant remember who you are, please catch hold of me at a dig and remind me.

The lovely Pewter bell shown above was found by one of our female members on a recent Wanderers dig in Buckinghamshire.

The buckle below was found by a member who shall remain nameless during an intensive search of Buckinghamshire farm land for Buttons.

WWDC member Dave Nott found the lovely buckle pictured below on a recent wanderers dig.

Its such a shame the buckle is broken.

WWDC member Bill found this lovely little buckle at one of our Surrey digs recently. I have included a 20p coin in the picture to show you how small this Buckle is.

We think this Buckle is Saxon or earlier, what do you think.

The smaller picture on the right shows the buckle when it was cleaned up, you can now clearly see there is a face on the buckle, makes a nice find even nicer.  

Tim found the cracking Buckle shown below at one of our recent Ivinghoe digs.

The items pictured below were found on a recent Wanderers dig by Ian.

2 lovely Crotal bells and a very nice shoe buckle.

The un-cleaned Spectacle buckle pictured above was found at one of our recent Ivinghoe digs.

Thanks to wanderers member Dave Phillips for letting me picture this crotal bell. 

What about this then !!  I have included my hand in the picture to give you an idea of the size of this fully working Crotal bell, Dave tells me it is a horse bell made in 1746 by John Stairs. Wonderful !!!

WWDC member Doug found the item pictured below recently and can't decide whether it is a belt buckle or a terret ring, what do you think ??

If you can positively identify this item please drop me an e-mail and I will pass it on to Doug.

Many thanks to Julian who said " I.went to our local museum today doing some research on something else and I saw an item on display exactly the same as the find displayed above except it still had the pin attached.  It is an early Anglo Saxon buckle.

Sept 07 - Received the following e-mail and I would like to thank Russell for taking the time to send it in.

The lovely sword belt fitment from the 16th century and small medieval buckle were found at our rained off dig in Oxfordshire by Fred with his Minelab Sovereign.

Thank you for sharing your finds with us Fred and thanks to Julian for the info on these finds.

Weekend Wanderers member "Old Bill" found the 3 items below on recent Weekend Wanderers digs with his Laser Powermax.

The lovely Buckle above was found recently in Bedfordshire

Thanks for sending me the excellent scan Bill.

Thank you to Mark for sending me the scan below of a buckle found by him on a Weekend Wanderers dig.

Above is a lovely large Spectacle Buckle.

Thank you for sending me the picture Mark.

The picture below shows a selection of the everyday finds I made on Sunday 2nd April at our Buckinghamshire dig.  Nothing really special I know but I thought I would show them anyway !!!! 

The Crotal bell is in nice condition and still has its pea inside, there are 3 Roman coins but only one is identifiable as Emperor Allectus dated  293 - 296 AD.

This is a fine example of a Jacobean shoe buckle dated from the early 1600`s was found on one of our in Buckinghamshire digs by Wanderers member Joe.

Thanks for letting us show your find here Joe.

Weekend wanderers members Ted & Phylis found the lovely buckle below.

The Museum report on this item stated it was a late medieval shoe buckle.

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A Tudor Rose buckle from early 1500`s a

Thank you Ted and Phyllis for letting me show your finds on this web site.

This beautiful silver buckle plate was found on 3rd October at our Hertfordshire dig.