With Lockdown there hasn't been much opportunity to go detecting recently, but I had another chance yesterday to explore the old schoolyard where I found the Soviet medallion before Christmas. The area is being landscaped and turned into a public park, and this was my last chance to go detecting before the council workers come in and lay a new concrete path.
I found a Zippo-type cigarette lighter (non-working) and a very corroded, heavily encrusted coin. After a bit of a wash, it turned out to be a 1941 Irish halfpenny!
What was it doing in Kent, England? Well, the school (since relocated to new premises) formerly belonged to the Catholic church and there was a long-serving parish priest from Ireland who was still there in the mid-1980s. He could well have brought it back from a trip home in the 1950s or 1960s and dropped it.
Posted 08/29/2021 10:15 pm
