MissDetectorist

14/02/2026

A close second! Love the relics in this one. I just feel like it looks less like me

14/02/2026

One of my favorite metal detecting photos of myself. Redone by ChatGPT as a cartoon. Fun!

12/11/2025

Nights like this I look up and wonder what our ancestors must have thought looking up at these same miraculous lights.

24/08/2025

If only we could hear the stories these streets beneath the streets could tell.

22/05/2025

Always love finding musketballs!

15/12/2024

The Vindolanda writing tablets are some of the best insights into life in the Roman era, and some of the oldest handwritten documents ever found in Britain. They were first excavated in the 1970s at Vindolanda Roman Fort in Northumberland, England, and are still found to this day. Written on small thin pieces of wood—usually birch, alder, and oak—they date to the late 1st and early 2nd century AD.

The one pictured was found in 1985 and has six lines of writing. It dates to c. AD 97 — c. 105 and concerns the fighting characteristics of the native Britons. It reads:

"nenụ ...[.]n. Brittoneṣ
nimium multi ‣ equites
gladis ‣ non ụtụṇtur equi-
tes ‣ nec residunt
Brittunculi ‣ ụt ‣ iaculos
mittant"

Translation:

" the Britons are unprotected by armour (?). There are very many cavalry. The cavalry do not use swords nor do the wretched Britons mount in order to throw javelins."

(ROMAN INSCRIPTIONS OF BRITAIN, TABLET 164)

According to Roman Inscriptions of Britain, it might be an intelligence report or a piece of information provided with a view to the recruitment of natives. Note the word "Brittunculi", meaning "wretched Britons".

Dimensions of tablet: W 78 mm × H 186 mm.

It is in the British Museum, London.

Link for more info in comments.
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📷 Roman Inscriptions of Britain

10/12/2024

10/12/2024

One of my favorite advertising pieces I've ever dug up! This is an early 1900s Coca-Cola watch fob, advertising a bottle of the famous drink for just 5 cents! This one is gold gilted brass and still has a small section of the leather strap it hung on! I found it metal detecting where a Victorian home once stood back around the turn of the 1900s!

23/11/2024

While using his metal detector at the site of a plantation in Charleston South Carolina, my friend Nick discovered this slave tag. On the top it reads CHARLESTON and below that it reads No 1180 and finally at the bottom the date 1827. Charleston South Carolina was the only state to manufacture these brass tags for slaves.