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We set off in glorious sunshine for another rally over the bridge in the sleepy area of Highbridge. As is the norm on Detecting Wales rallies, Helios was contacted and scorching hot sunshine had been secured for the day. They say the sun only shine on the righteous, so how we can arrange this everytime I will never know.

Following the usual pay up, sign up, go there, go here, heres the history, we were off! Lots of pastured fields, which I don't think had been ploughed for a good number of years. The site was in the shadow of the Celtic and Roman Hill Fort of Brent Knoll though, plus we had Roman occupation very near the farm, so expectations were quite high

First find of the day I saw was Terry with bizzarely a New Zealand two dollar coin - what that was doing in a field in Highbridge is anyones guess. I'm sure turning over the turf and seeing a gold coin shining at him was a fair old shock, thankfully Terry recovered though.

We next saw a few Vicky pennies and half pennies, a Georgian copper and a nice cartwheel penny.

Next find of note was a silver sixpence to Jeff Stock that I forgot to get a photo of . I soon joined the silver club, with only my second ever florin - dated 1933 - so a 50/50 silver content. I was happy all the same as it just about ticks a silver box for June.

Buckles were the order of the day - with a lovely one from Tyna, another from The Doc along with a nice looking trade weight

There was also a bit of a theme with silver coated lead - sounds odd? Well it was. Dennis had a silver plated lead mount, Debbie had a silver plated badge/mount of some kind and I also had a silver plated lead whatsit at the end. Sounds to me like the farm workers were skint, but wanted to give the appearance of silver items, so bought lead with silver plate.

Onto the real silver in the shape of a corking silver spoon found by one of our Newbies - sorry I forget your name. Lovely looking spoon and George III at a guess - I'll get the Hallmarks book out later. Find Of The Day  in my book! ;)

Another newbie (I think called Roy) had a lovely old bronze item - that I have seen before, but for the life of me can't remember where. Someone suggested off a money pouch - I'm sure someone here will know.

Malcom.mmts had a hoard of spindle whorls found pretty close together - I think it was 8 in total. I personally think its whats left over from a loom that has been burnt or thrown out. Nice find though.

Someone had a complete horses bit and we joked about him using it on the wife to keep her quiet - I know mine would find a way around it though! ;D

Another decent find was a larger copper token in lovely condition which should clean up nicely.

The day was coming to a close, and I saw Ancient Pat at the end taking a well earned rest, but even he couldn't work his hammered magic on this rally! So where were the hammered coins I hear you asking? Oh, they were there, believe you me, just too deep for us. We can't have a Silver Fest every time, but we thought with it being less than a mile from the Rooksbridge one we would have a few. Oh, well next Rally hopefully, and we'll even guarantee the sun again!

Thanks for joining us, I hope you all had a good day out.

Cheers
Neil

P.S. I have just had a shower and it looks like I am modelling a white vest - my arms, neck and calfs however are red as hell! And to think I never burn - my cars outside temperature gauge reached 79 degrees farenheit at one point today!

Tyna and docs buckles

Debbies silver plate

Silver spoon

Bronze item - can anyone confirm what it is?

Malcolms Hoard

1933 florin

Horse Bit

Token

Detectorists

Oxon Shoe

well done to everyone today  i especially like the florin  well done niel 

nice finds the bronze object could be a dagger guard

Nice finds everybody and well done on another good report and pictures neil ;D

well done on your finds folks ,thanks for pics and report neil.

Another excellent report, Neil. To my knowledge three people found ox shoes. Is there still one to be found there or was it a three legged ox?

Geoff

well done you lot. sounds like you had a great day, and you had the weather with you as well. :D

Great day out - well organised Geoff, Neil and Tafflaff. :D

DIG IT he lost that shoe m8 ;D ;D

Tafflaffs(Robs) Hammered Lizzy ii

congratulations to everyone on a great day detecting with a great variaty of finds beachboy(viv)

Looks like another good day ladys and gents quite an interesting selection of finds  ;) beautiful weather  and scenery geoff neil rob your doing a great job hope to make the next one  ??? mole

I think Geoffs three legged Oxen theory may be sound!  ;D

Thanks team for another great day.

The trade weight was a first for me. so I'm well pleased, As well as the buckle in the picture, I had two other buckles, the remains of a wristwatch, a nice Vicky penny and a Lizzie 2 sixpence.

I think I had the other ox shoe, but it went into the hedge :o

Didn't have one button, which is strange, but did get probably my record total ever of medicine tubes. Here they are - guess how many?

Some lovely finds well done at least the weather was good also,wish we had been there been gardening allday proper boring.Well done sounded like a good day out.

Great day out,super weather,good company ,lookin forward to the next one.
Have attched what my token looked like when new.
Al. :) :)

thanks for a great day out :) and well done to the finders of the nice things  :-[

i'm off to the scrapys tomorrow to sell all my aluminium tubes, i may be to rich to talk to any of you when i sell them all

if detecting was easy where would the fun be in doing it!! ::)

Had a good day, one button three buckles a penny and my 2 dollar New Zeland coin ?,  I also found umpteen tubes, and got a nice tan to boot,  Thanks Taff for the lift hope the wife is feeling better,  Thanks Neil and Geoff, til the next time
Terry

Lots of hard work went on there by the look of the no. of cattle tubes (33 Peter?).
Bronze piece does look like a dagger guard Mike! Nice silver spoon , pot weight and token and all of the other bits (not the cattle tubes though!).
Would have been too hot for me, dunno how you arrange the sunshine, think I will put bets on at the bookies next date that you arrange one  ;D
Never seen silvered lead before, strange one that!
Thanks for posting up the finds, nice to see the goodies without the hard work, well done all.

malcom trust you to get all those spindal whirls ,importers they always go overboard with to many .
fair do's  thats a hoard that may take some time to beat!!!!

Give and you will receive they say.

HUH... how true but somehow I don't think this will apply to me with my finds.

I was extremely lucky to find 8 spindle whorls over a 50 yard area and while showing 2 of our female detectors them, I gave them one each as a present... deep down I am hoping they both use them to make me 2 lovely woolen jumpers.. HUH... I bet this never happens though.

Then the inevitable happened .. I gave and now I received... OH how I hate Neil  (LOL) ... while complimenting him on another excellent day's detecting I mentioned it was great that I did not have a single pull ring or 12 bore cartidge case to take home with me... AHHH... that Neil...ahhh ... he held his hand out and shoved a pull ring and cartridge case into my hand... AHHH ...I hate him  (LOL)

Besides numerous tubes, odd bits of lead and other junk those 8 whorls and 3 buckles made it a good day for me and to have fresh air between ciggys is also great.

What was extremely pleasing to see today was that everyone filled in their holes almost to perfection. In fact the only evidence you had on most occasions was some loose soil around the well replaced grass.

On the picture below are some of my finds and to upset Neil I have not included the fantastic pull ring and cartridge case he shoved into my hand (just to spite him for ruining my pull ring free detecting day ).

Well done the organisers for yet another enjoyable day.

Myself and " TheJinx" Barrie enjoyed our day out again , nice to meet up with everybody and Tafflaff of course , thanks again to all the organisers and Tafflaff for finding the sites.Sorry I let the side down no hammered and it's my birthday tomorrow !!

                                                             Pat. :'( :'(

Thanks to all concerned for a great day out, once again spent in good company, finally met with ( chef  Geoff) Still trying to add the nail pattern to all metal.

      Jonny :-[ :-[ :-[

well done to you all with the great finds you find................. :) :) :) :) :)  You had great wether for it  once again well done all............... :) :) :) :) :) :)

well done everyone, didnt have anything myself part from bout 50 tubes and 30 odd bottle tops

did anyone else notice on the bridge, there was loads of nicely dressed large stone work, plus concreted into it was a large block with ICI carved into it, looked very Roman to me

Had another great day many thanks to everyone.

Thanks again for arranging a good day out - well covered with suncream so avoided the grilling! As Neil mentioned I had a 1932 6d in reasonable condition plus a couple of Victorian or later harness buckles plus the same rubbish as everyone else! Thanks to Rob for finding site (nice to meet you) and Geoff and Neil as usual. Looking forward to next one.

Another great write up Neil, :) sounds like you all had a great day, well done to all the finders.  :)

Thanks for another great day Geoff, Neil and Rob. Weather brilliant again and the good lady Brent Knoll smiled down on us. Though I did not find a lot I still had a great day and here is my best find. A 1938 George VI sixpence.

On a glorious June day Casa Dos and Dig It enjoy the Somerset hospitality.

The detecting Wales roadshow hits town.

Neil a very interesting pattern on the silvered lead disc. Do you have a idea of date for the object.

Lovely photos paul but what a lot of you dont realise is Casados (KEV) is actually stood up !LOL sorry kev i had to get that one in mate ::) ;D :D :D :D

thanks for a great day out. hope to attenden many more

Same here i had a cracking day out , well done and thank u to everyone who organised the rally.

Cheers guys had a great time even though I'm paying for it now ( like a lobster )I too turned up something like 40 + tubes and about a dozen tops but also had 2 Georgen pennies 3 lizzy pennies and a halfpenny oh! and a 1p about 10inches down  >:( Thanks Geoff and Niel  nice to put faces to you guys hope to see you all again soon .

waltonbasinman trying to work out if casa dos in you photo is  looking for a find or praying  :D

hi, thanks to all the team for a great day out, Had a george 3rd halfpenny, 2 iron buckles, victorian thimble, bits of horse harness,military button,  Weather was great and so were all the people i met,    regards mark

Great finds everyone, another cracking report Neil. Nice bit in the Treasure Hunting magazine as well. Keep up the good work !

As Adie said Kev, I think he is actually stood up. Hee Hee. ;D ;D

little treasure  come in small packages ::) ::) ::) ;D ;D ;D

had a great day.bit hot.but a good day out

Had a good day but should have worn a cap to prevent my head turning a bright red colour.

Found plenty of tubes, an old pen-knife and lots of junk.

Hi Folks,really enjoyed the day out,fine weather,good friends,plenty of land,and vets tubes!See you all at the next meet.
Jim. :) :)