The Redick, Florida school yard was littered with metal and modern coins; not unusual for a 125-year-old school yard. I would show the two silver rosies and wheat pennies I found but I thought more interesting were my other finds.
Pictured to the right are a brass skeleton key and two silver bracelet charms. The first is of a heart, of course, and the second is a baseball glove. All items were better than six inches down.
This heavy, solid gold necklace heart bangle, shown to the left, was among several jewelry finds at a Gainesville, Florida Park. Though I searched as hard as I could, I was not able to find the chain it must have come from.
After weighing this piece of gold, it turned out to be almost a half ounce
The picture to the right is of a nice .925 silver fox charm and was found at a local school yard playground. As with this and other children's jewelry, it was found down in only a few inches of sand. Some of the best places for hunting tid-bits of jewelry, are in school yard playgrounds around the playground equipment.
While hunting at a developmental research school yard at the University of Florida called P.K. Younge, I came up with this piece of bracelet. I assume it has to be a bracelet because it is too heavy to be a necklace. The links alternate gold, silver, gold, silver, etc.. Despite how hard I looked I could not find the rest of the links. This piece must have been the only part that was lost.
Found this strange looking thing in a yard about four inches under the grass. The tag says "Stone Wash." Both the stone and the tag are metal. I have been told this is a symbol for a brand of stone washed jeans.
I suppose these could go under the heading of bangles. They are bits and pieces of silver and gold to who knows what. They are all from Florida beaches. I mean, they could go to a bracelet, right?
These pieces represent only a few of the many whatchamacallits I commonly find on beaches.
Here, piggy, piggy, piggy! This one did not go home with the owner. As you can tell this charm came off because the loop in the tail broke where it was attached to the bracelet. I dug it up from below a park bench in Jacksonville, Florida. It is made of sterling silver.
GO DOLPHINS! No, I'm not a football fan but I sure like this charm, or it could be for a key ring. I found it in a park in . . . you guessed it, in Miami, Florida. Needs cleaning, though.
I am often in Miami to visit my son who lives there.
I put this on the pendant page but decided it might just be a key chain ornament instead and moved it here. It is made of a black stone and painted with Indian colors. I picked up the signal in beach sand on the ringlet alone. This find came from Cedar Key, Florida on a beach close to the dock area. 
Here is a happy-sad face charm off a bracelet. I think this has something to do with theaters or plays. Anyhow, I found it in sand at a park under a cement table in Gainesville, Florida.
Would a dog tag be a bangle? Well, maybe to a dog! This one was found in Trenton, Florida in one of the median strips between the sidewalk and street. Dog tags are a common find--some old some new. I'm making a collection of them.
Okay, so it's a button! But it is a gold button! Besides, I had no button page to show it on. Another North Central Florida park find.
I commonly find all sorts of metal buttons. Some Cival War buttons are very valuable! Thus far I have found none of those, just the common variety with the exception of this gold one.
I am sure this is a charm but I could never find the part that was broken off. It is another beach find from the west coast of Florida.
Sometimes these kinds of finds leave you hanging in mystery.
