re: Metal Detector amateur Finds a 500-Year-Old Pendant owned by Henry VIII

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All I’ve been finding with mine on my new property is roofing nails and old phone/power cables. I’m less than a mile from one of the biggest campaigns/battles in the Civil War so surely something will turn up, albeit not as cool as what that guy found. Incredible.

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That would be cool.

Probably also worth noting you have bronze casting and significant metal working in places like Britain during the Middle Ages (500 to 1500 AD) which predates similar practices in the US by quite a bit. With trading of metals as well.

The area he found the item was first mentioned in 1001, as a part of Mercia. Stratford-upon-Avon (birthplace of William Shakespeare) is in the same county.