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Help to Identify your finds

The following pages and links are to help identify some of the finds you make while detecting.

One of the most common items found are Buckles they come in a huge variety of shapes and sizes from all periods of our history. Here are some links that might help you to identify them.

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Coins are such a complex subject. There are many good Facebook groups to help quickly identify coin finds but for some personal research the links below might help

The example below is intended only as a guide to the positioning of certain marks that are referred to in the identification of hammered coins

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