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Detectingwales.com stretched its fingers further into England today to a new area for us that was Ludlow. We attracted members from far and wide including Bangor, St Davids, Bristol, Hereford, Swindon and Birmingham. Great to see so many of you there today and a big welcome to lots of new faces including Aikonbiz, Artex, Bengo, Bobbles, Burt, Darren Jones, DB4, Jerry, Mandy, John F, Macen Wledig, Mooty, NL08 Rob, Nonker10, Daryll, Grunt, Jane and all the others I have forgotten. Great for you to join us and meet you in the flesh guys!

A few of us met up the night before at a local campsite to cut a few hours off the journey,and spent the night talking detecting, eating Chinese food {thanks Rob}, watching shooting stars (not the version with Ulrikaaa} and watching Paul put up his camp bed for an hour or so!

Off to the site nice and early after a brief panic over Rob losing his keys, and amusing our fellow campers by running up and down the campsite pushing Chefs car! Flat battery! Got it started in the end and the day started even better for Pipster who found a £20 note in a puddle - the day would get even better for him, but more about that later.

We met up with the charming farmer and he informed us which fields we could have, put some signs up, tables for the FLO's, table for food and bins (as suggested by Richard at the last rally} for rubbish. Did the usual go here, go there, followed by an excellent overview of the area by Paul - thanks mate a very informed speech. Then we were off!!!

My second hole of the day rewarded me with an item I have been after since I started detecting. A common find for some, but not for me. I have found umteen copper and even brass ones before but never a silver thimble. It was hallmarked as well and dates to the 1850's thanks to a report from the FLO's.

I am not really sure how to report on this rally as I never saw everything in chronological order, as things were being left with the FLO's for recording.

The first person I came across in the field had an Edward hammered, a George III sixpence and a silver joey. I next saw Casa Dos at some point with a nice James Ist hammered coin with a small hole in it. Great to see you back on the road to recovery mate with a lovely coin - well done!Another chap had a silver decorated thimble that was quite ornate. Another hammered coin of Elizabeth by someone - I forget who and then I was summoned over to Roman Ray and Pipster.

They both called me over from about half the length of the field. Upon reaching them Pipster said "Whats this mate?" I thought bloody hell I've walked all this way to see a door knob! Then he swapped hands and presented me with what at first looked like a cut half still in the soil. On closer inspection I could see it was in fact a full hammered sixpence folded in the soil. Phil was over the moon and rightfully so as it was his first decent hammered. Really pleased for you matey - well done. your smile was worth the walk alone.

Next I saw a chap with a Half Crown of Edward and a silver joey and was told by someone nearby that a stater had turned up! I presumed it was a joke or one of those detecting rumours that occasionally circulate. But in fairness I was wrong and a full stater had indeed been found!

Earlier in the morning I was doing the enrolment sign up and a chap called Staterchaser was next in line. When he said his name I replied jokingly "Do you ever find them?" and he replied "Yeah occasionally" Well this was another occasion for him, as he had indeed found a cracking gold stater.

I tried to head back to the FLO table to see it but was waylayed by talk of another celtic coin -surely not two on a rally? There it was though in the hand of a smiling Ecopain and consisting of a silver unit. A cracking find from a seperate field on the farm - well done! It certainly looked like the Celts were about.

Just to prove it when I got back to base, Peter showed me a Celtic Terret Ring that had been found by I think Jane - another stunning find and what was annoying was we all knew the other half of it was somewhere out there in the field. Did anyone find it?

Just to keep the ball rolling someone popped up with a Bronze Age gouge - Identified correctly by our very own TaffLaff. A nice find and the second one we have had on a DW rally.

Numerous other finds including William III, Georgie, Vicky coppers, pot legs, buckles, musket balls, spindal whorls, buckles, etc turned up as they always do. The nicest and earliest buckle I saw though belonged to Chef and would have had a plate attached to it - definately early medieval - shame the plate was missing though.

The last find I saw before I headed home to a chicken dinner again fell to Staterchaser and stinks of Medieval. Reminds me of a galley penny - but its not currency. No idea what it is but the legend may help enlighten us.

I am sure there were plenty of other finds I missed so feel free to add yours to this post. A great day out with lovely company and no stress - its how detecting should be. See you all at the next one.

A big thank you goes to Peter Revell and his fellow FLO as well as Rob and Paul for arranging the site - well done guys. and of course Geoff Admin without who we wouldn't be doing this.

Laters
Neil

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Some more finds from Ludlow

They keep coming

A few more

Still going! :o

I hope you are enjoying these - the FLo's recorded over 70 items today!

mrs h got another general service button as well.

Still more!

Great report Neil, shame I could not get there, will be on the next one.

Well done guys and girls on your finds.

Steve

And again . . .

Not finished yet Stred! ;D ;D ;D

The Find of the Day!

WOW ! :o :o
Silver units,gold stators  ;D ;D

looks like another DW rally success ;0)
well done Rob and the team !

Really nice finds Today.I really enjoyed the day out meeting yet more members.

lots of nice finds especially that  ::) GOLD STATER WOW.

At least i can now say that i have held one thanks to the finder.

Good Report as usual Neil Well Done

Thanks

Wayno (wayne)
 

Thanks for today really well organized. Had a great day out.

Great Day, Thanks to all the DW Team.
Hapi Dayz!

A big thanks from me too, a memorable day.
Well done to the organizers.
John.

That's a great find staterchaser, cracker.

Wow - what an excellent day!! Great report and pics Neil - I wish I'd been there.

Just a couple of ID points - Casa's hammered is a Charles I penny, not James.

The stater is a Dobunni EISV type, Spink 381.

I'm still looking at the silver Celtic.

The silver unit also is EISV I believe, Spink 382.

Edit 16.8.2010. Need to go back to coin school :-[

The experts elsewhere have determined this is not silver, but is the bronze core of a plated EISV stater. I'm not sure if that means it's a forgery, or did they issue plated staters when gold was in short supply?

yet another great ralley.maybe the best one yet.what a great day and half i had.lol.
great night at the campsite.very enjoyable sleep as its nice to sleep of the ground for a change.lol.
as i dont have much luck with airbeds it was my highlight of my weekend as i never found anything at all really.lol.
but it was great to see so many new commers faces.and so many great finds throughout the day.
the flow did.nt come up for air today.
many thanks to the flow for coming.
had a great ralley loved every minute of it.
cheers.all.

another fantastic rally from D.W.  :o :o :o
great crowd, great weather and GREAT location. what more could anyone ask for?
I had my first hammered on a rally this year, Elizabeth 1st half groat (pic to follow).
yet again lads you have excelled yourselves.

Great finds guys & girls well done to all  ;)

Hi Guys,glad you all had a good day and some cracking finds.Sorry we coul;dnt make it this time.Excellent report as usual Neil. :) :) :)
Al :) :)

A Super day A big thanks to you all
A great report niel and first class pics as usual
Phil

I would like to say a big thanks for a great day's detecting , it was nice to put a face to a name.
My brother ARTEX was over the moon with his Elizabeth 1 sixpence.Hope to see you all again at the end of the month. ;D

A big thanks to all for making it a great day and looking forward to a return match !!

Auntie Ann & i enjoyed the rally some really nice finds turned up ,well done all,as the doc said the hammy i found is a Charles 1st penny found out its tower mint as well,thanks farmer phil for taking this photo of the coin ;)

Alright chaps few pictures here of my celtic unit. Not sure its silver though
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Thanks again

Allan

like to thank basonman for the nice rolls he made for me ,phil,mark ;) also taff for the land he got us and Mr basonman,great to meet up with the zorro,beachboy,and everyone else ,good report to Neil. ;)

WELL DONE THAT MAN GREAT FIND FOR SURE ;)

Here are some more pics from the rally.
First up, GOOD MORNING NEIL.

The members arrive.

Very good to see Casa Dos back and battling. Well done fella. Here he is with support crew and a groupie from Brecon/RARE. Hello Mr Igglepiggle.  ;D  Two coin magnets together as well Phil and Paul.

As usual as much talking was done as detecting.  ;D ;D ;D

Some got on with the job.  ::)

Some could have done better. Came across this in the late afternoon.

Some felt the need to relax a little. Nomad and Chef HOPE YOU HAD A GOOD DAY GENTS :D :D :D

again thanks to everyone for putting on another great rally,brilliant fields a fantastic sunny day outstanding finds and a great crowd well done everyone.viv

these are Mrs H's offerings -- she put me to shame again.

A garrett 250 beats the explorer 2 for the 2nd week running.

well done mrs h!!! :P :P :P :P

i was just saying to chefin the photo, what great headphones he had produced, and yes i for one had a super day thanks to all ,including the peeps who brough food... as you dan see from my belly...mmmmmmmmmm

good day was had by all by the looks of it well done guys n gals the only gripe i have is why the stater fest banner well done to the guys that found them but a little story i know of is that a certain detectorist found a stater in a herefordshire parish and now beacuse word has got around there is people turning up by the coach load to tect this particular parish, i think you may be encouraging nighthawking or overcrowding and i feel for the guys that are doing the fields around the nearby castle {who i do know}.by all means find wonderfull things but you really dont have to tell most of wales and several parts of england as well. 

I may be wrong, but I haven't seen any disclosure of the location on the forum, apart from the general area. Obviously, those that went know where it is...

Plenty of the general public did call by and it is a good point I think Peter. Though only members had a pm of the rally location. A lot of locals knew we were there by the end of the day. You do wonder.

well i be blowed,

you changed your name again paul ? ??? ???

Great day apart from the horse fly biting my kneck, really enjoyed ourselves cant move today knackered thanks to everyone some lovely finds and great company to talk to, thank you once again cant wait for the next dig.FLO it was a pleasure to her them very helpful.If it hadnt of been for them we would of chucked that terret ring in the bin ,well the Mrs would have as we would never of known what it was.

Well done everyone some lovely finds found
debs

Great finds, well done All the organisers ;) and finders of the staters and hammered and all the varied finds :o

Marvellous sociable event and a good advert for detecting
Beautiful location and great company. Enjoyed the trip up and day out.

Although a shortage of coppers, did find 2 milled silver - a Vicky shilling and George 6d love token, a snuff box, musket ball, button and a crushed copper thimble the FLO dated 1620-1720

Farmer Phil 8) ;)

Here are some more pics from Ludlow.

PIPSTER AND ROMAN RAY FIND THINGS GETTING A BIT EMOTIONAL.

The previous evening at the campsite Neil and Chef heard word of a possible Golden Egg in the Chicken Run.  ;D ;D. Actually they helped the campsite owner out looking for a electric cable. Nice one guys

This is a pic that summed the rally up for me Richard 16DD what can I say fella. Seen the guy in action and I tell you folks he knows his detector inside out. Pleasure to meet you fella.

WOW ..!!!!! some wonderful pics there of some cracking finds...I really gotta pass my driving test  :-\   a big WELL DONE ALL  :)

thanks for sunday, didnt find much of interest but i am a bit rusty as havent been out for 3 months. Thats my excuse  ,anyway it was great to be out again, cheers

What fantastic finds - from a gold stater through to milled silver plus artefacts.  I find it fascinating to see how an area has seen human habitation for at least around two thousand years.

Well done to everyone who went - a great selection of coins and artefacts.
Debbie

Neil, Peter ID,d the Medieval Wotsit as a coin weight. I think he said 14th or 15th century and possibly Spanish.

brilliant finds everyone!!!!! especially the Celtic   ;D ;) what a day!!