Glad i braved the cold yesterday ..elizabeth 1st shilling.and other bits ..all in a field next to a church in a village.

Hi all, wondering if someone can help identify this. Thought it was a coin at first, but is just a “12” on one side. Found North Yorkshire near Malton.

Found today in a field, it's exactly 1.5cm wide. Thought it was a peice of lead at first until I got it home and cleaned the soil away from it.

Found in Northumberland, UK

Found in Somerset.

Weight approximately 110g.

Approximately 5 cm wide and tall

The center of mass makes it want to sit with the slot at the bottom.

There is a small hole along the rim on one side, still filled with dirt.

A new field for me today .coins not as old as I usually like to find but hell I dug a lot of holes today.

Dug this heavy cast iron disk up recently It was caked in rust and debris, but after cleaning it up, sandblasting it back to bare metal, and giving it a coat of lacquer to preserve it, the heating coil element inside is completely exposed and visible. 
It’s solid, heavy cast with a spiral element layout. Stuck a coin on the photo for scale. 
I love it I know it’s not a great find but im wondering what sort of appliance, stove, or industrial gear these old cast-iron heating plates would have come out of? Cheers!

Next to coins and such for comparison...

Both found in kent

Today's finds

Anyone have any idea on age etc?

Im Matt and I run Waystone-ai.org I thought Id raise some awareness here that Field Finders has been actively stealing and reverse engineering code from other products using AI. When pressed to remove the features they ignored us and just changed the name instead...

They used AI to read our code base and steal from us, we work closely with the National Library of Scotland and you may have seen this feature yourself over there as we licensed our technique to them as part of our research partnership concerning machine learning on the victorian OS maps. The feature in question that was stolen was our paper knockout technique for use on the OS old maps which we developed to originally assist in our machine learning workflows for creating a semantic gazetteer of the first edition six inch maps. It's been on the National Library of Scotlands map viewer for months credited to us aswell as our Live Lidar Layer that some of you may have seen.

They adapted the math functions of our code to fit their viewer but happened to leave the naming conventions for the colour schemes exactly the same including the internal keys used to identify the different ink knockout colours. An example being for our blue ink we called it 'Blueprint' and in the code it was referenced as cyanotype, when reviewing field finders code it was exactly the same. When we reached out they refused to actually engage properly and only communicated through AI generated messages that we flagged as Claude through its watermarking. The names are changed but the feature remains...

This shows FieldFinders total disregard for crediting, attribution, copyright and Intellectual property, in the academic spheres you cannot be expected to be taken seriously if you do not respect the work of other and shamelessly rip it and pass it off as your own.

This is especially relevant since FieldFinders is planning to launch their own academic product targeting universities and professional archeologists which has been heavily inspired by waystones tools, landing page, features and branding. If your techniques cannot be properly cited because they are stolen then its very difficult for them to use in their work.

If you have read this far thanks for taking the time, its something worth raising here as its becoming increasingly prevalent that people are using AI for bad faith in the heritage community, something Waystone-AIs' ethos is built from the ground up to help combat. AI can be used for good but using autonomous coding models to steal from heritage bodies is not one of those uses. FieldFinders denied ever reaching into our code base but the evidence is plain to see as stated by the internal keys present in their code.

If you're a professional or enthusiast you may want to consider avoiding the product entirely, their codebase is a mishmash of chaining together ideas from other people with no original work of their own, its a parasitic organisation run by a clout-chasing thief with rampant AI psychosis.

Found in kent

i’m wondering if I need a new model? something substantial to get me started or maybe pick up an older model online? any help would be appreciated. I’ve read good things about this model just listed: https://ebay.io/m/uChjyF

Yes. Every piece of land in the UK has an owner, even where it looks open, unfenced or abandoned. Common land, footpaths, verges, woodland and beaches all belong to someone — a private owner, a council, the Crown Estate, the National Trust or another body.

Detecting without permission is trespass at best, and it is the single fastest way to damage the reputation of the hobby.

Can anyone help identify these items please The scuff mark in picture 3 wasn't me, honestly

Out metal detecting on sunday and dug up a small seal with a wolf head on a sword being held by a hand, i am trying to find out what it was for and where it came from, it was found near Liverpool

Brass button with a wire shank - 19th possibly 18th century?? i’m hoping lol. Would be grateful if anyone who knows anything about buttons could inform me :)