First find of 2024

This is a fragment of a larger man worked stone object. It's really difficult to photgraph. When held at different angles in certain light conditions, all sorts of inscriptions are visible, but none clear enough to make out any letters or words. There are come clearly etched lines in the stone and one view it could be a snake's head.
Going to take it to the Yambol natural history museum and see if they are interested!

I'll have whatever she's having

Clear lines and inscriptions, yeah right!
Honest guv, as I said, it's near impossible to get the camera to see what the eye sees!

Fool's Gold

Very probably iron pyrite, or similar crystalline mineral (not a lot of gold flecks to be fair, uniformly silver crystals).

Pretty sure this was an important object to someone in a time far long ago.

Hopefully might find some other bits of the object when digging more beds.

Let's broach the subject?

First thoughts, Jewish, but possibly Morrocan? The six sided star wasn't exclusively Jewish until mid 18c and was used by a Morrocan ruler. Could just be an unrelated doodle, on what seems to be a brooch/pin. Unknown metal. 

Freddie Flintstone

Have now found numerous pieces of seemingly worked orange flintstone. Google was my friend and this colour flint was mined further north (https://www.archaeology.org/news/3429-150624-bulgaria-flint-workshop) and provided much of the flint found in Bulgaria. Apparently there was an open settlement in Mamarchevo - so pretty amazing to think that 6,500 years ago, some stoneage people were living here.

What's Next?!

Plenty of rusty old style nails, a button, plenty of land to turn over........

Well well well, (sure I've said that before!)
Given the flint, was somewhat excited when finding this... it was more than likely used in some form of weaving (a spindle Whorl), probably from a later period than the flint, but still likely bronze age, so 3-4 thousand years old.
Not seen the same stone material anywhere locally, so either imported or brought to the region by new settlers?

Dragons?

A strange piece of bone, that uncannily looks like a dragon's head.
It is however a vertebrae from a cat!

Struck Silver

Have now found 3 coins in the garden. The first was a lucky spot in a newly dug bed, the two Bulgarian coins found by the metal detector.

Ottaman rule, early 19th century

1912, an independent country

1962, communist country.

Yeah yeah, it's wafer thin and probbaly has less than £1 worth of silver in it.

A liberal application of bicarb of soda and use of my ultrasound toothbrush and bob's your uncle. A Turkish coin from the early 19th century (Mahmud II methinks July 1785 – July 1839). Not unsurprising, given our proximity to Turkey and that the Ottaman Empire "owned" Bulgaria before it's final liberation.

Multi-national

Have since found a UK 5p coin and on Christmas Day 2023, found an American Quarter, literally just sat there at the entrance to the Greenhouse, as if it had been planted deliberately. All very strange as I had gone over that area numerous times with the metal detector.