Found this shield today. Looks like an alloy of some sort (not copper or bronze). Rough uneven edges, but shaped like a shield. You can see a box in the middle, a ribbon on top, making almost a crown with a cross or jewel at the top. But the symbols/words in the box are impossible to read. The find ...

Nice to hear that you're interested! The software itself does not contain maps or data of any kind, it is just a tool which interprets and visualizes the topography data files (text file format) downloaded from Maanmittauslaitos.fi. To my knowledge, Maanmittauslaitos.fi provides topography data onl...

TOXIC kirjoitti: ↑16 Huhti 2019, 04:31 Looks like old cloth agraffe, maybe from 1600-1700. Heres some examples. https://postimg.cc/wRDd6Zjd

Thank you! Those look similar indeed, I'll research this further.

Found this yesterday. Has anyone seen something similar? I think it's a pendant or a chain attachment ornament.

Found this in the first day of detecting this spring. Two Soviet coins, two Finnish (1900 1 penni and 1916 5 pennia) and what looks like an old chain pendant, an intriguing find. Has anyone seen anything similar to this pendant in the center? https://i.imgur.com/bMUwzQy.jpg https://i.imgur.com/H7WJA...

By the way, this is some interesting reading: a dissertation by Sonja Hukantaival from Turun Yliopisto, "For a witch cannot cross such a threshold!” – Building concealment traditions in Finland c. 1200–1950 https://www.utupub.fi/handle/10024/125606?fbclid=IwAR25aAFSjwmEi-v4teMRoSD02eyWPmNoaSW_n...

Apologies that this is in English. Last summer I found (on the Russian side of Karelia) two hammered German coins (separately) from the 11th century, and both their locations seemed to indicate that they may have been placed under an old foundation. There were no stones (probably taken and used in a...

I'd love to try this (I'm on a Mac buy I will dust off my PC to run this). Does the model work on Ladoga coast? (does it have a map, etc.) Thanks!

Looks like a catchphrase of some sort. I can't make out the first couple of words (if you can take a couple more photos I can try again), but the rest reads "купи денег не жалей", which means "buy, don't hesitate".

These spoons are made from "Nickel silver" - an alloy of copper, nickel and zinc. In Soviet Russia these spoons were quite popular, because they look almost exactly like silver, but are made of a much cheaper metal composition. The alloy had a metallic taste, so spoons were usually coated ...

What a beautiful find!!

Nice finds!!

The tiny hammered Russian coin is from Peter the Great, I can read his name on the coin. Most likely a Denga (half a Kopeck).

What is the "devil" find (Piru näköjään p*****taa kuvassa)? A token? Or a button? Very interesting item!

I think the last wire coin ("fish scale") you found reads "Peter" (Peter the Great, ~1700-1725). The first wire coin is from Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov (1622-1645).

This is great! Indeed it looks like their emblem. Thank you for your help!

I found this pin in Sortavala 15-20 years ago. It is about 5-6 cm long and looks like silver. I still don't know what this pin represents. My best guess is that this is either a military musical band pin, or a music festival pin. Any help is much appreciated! [Google translated:] Löysin tämän tapin ...