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Ok after a quick discussion with the farmers wife this evening, we have an invite back to Hawkesbury Upton.

Last year saw a cracking variety of finds including, button, buckles, seal matrix, Roman fibula a smattering of hammered coins and...Oh yeah 2 gold coins  :o

There will be a mixture of stubble and pasture and again the farmer and his family will be joining us to see what goodies come up. Please show them your finds as they have no interest in taking them off you - they are just a really friendly family with a great interest in whats in their ground.

I know last year many detectorists gave the farmer's kids a collection of buttons and buckles, pre decimal coinage, they were so pleased.

This will be a DetectingWales.com members only rally and I'm afraid everyone attending must be over 16 years of age. Usual terms and conditions apply. Everyone who attends does so at their own risk and we recommended that everyone has civil liability insurance. If you are a member of a club you will probably already have this. Please check.

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The location of the rally will be sent by private message to everyone who has signed up the day before the rally and the rally fee is £7.00 as normal.

Remember this rally; nice place, nice people. Is it the same fields Rob?

WelshJohn

It is Welshjohn, ploughed now so hopefully more brought to the surface  :)

Cant wait. My first dw rally. Looking forward to it

Same as you minelab turbo. ;D
it'll be our first before Santa Hat.
Never found anything historical so far ,unless the romans had ring pulls on  theyre  booze.then ive found a hoard. ::)

Hello all,this will be my first mw dig,does anybody know a time it will start please as I have a distance to travel cheers

usually starts around 9.30 but depends if taff sleeps late  ::) :D

Sorry, I'm a newbie to rallies...are dogs allowed?

I have a 1 year old border collie that I  work on a local farm on sheep, cattle, and goats...she is well manured and I can hold her off other peoples stock.

She tends to go off looking for mice nests to dig up whilst I'm detecting...

Ok thanks,is it Taff who will send us the details over and will we be detecting untill dusk?

As long as it's not a Jack russell  ;D
Geoff

Why Geoff Jack Russells love you in fact the last one liked you so much it tried to eat you ;D

I wouldn't mind but I was only trying to be friendly. good job it wasn't my swinging hand.  :)
Geoff

Manoross, its the farmers call that one fella, most allow but one or two do not. I will find out for you.

hi rob is the rally near upton on severn?if not where is it roughly.cheers mate.

 ??? Where it says it is "Hawkesbury Upton"

please can u add me to the list for the rally

i'll have to look that one up.geography baffles me :-[

I think its just off the M4 Bath turnoff

Manofross - I sometimes have to bring my mutt along as nobody else to look after him. I use a coiled lead like Deborah on here used. I show it to the farmer and get permission otherwise he status in the car and gets walks off the farm periodically. You can get one from dogsbody in Hereford down Barr's Court road they are on the wall by the window. I had to make mine but these are the real thing and just what you need as they don't get around the dogs legs and still give him some range while you are digging and swinging. Get over there and by one. I can get one for you if you b like. All farmers I have asked are quite happy to allow mine out when they see he is controlled with the lead.

cheers tezza i had to google it to found out where it was :D

So did I and I'm fairly local ;)

Da Monkey, thanks a lot for the information, but I'll wait to see what Tafflaff can find out. So far as a lead goes my Meg has very sharp teeth and in one bite almost totally severed her leather lead when I tied her to a sheep race.

Ok I've checked the situation with dogs on the farm and its a yes for well behaved dogs, on a lead and of course any mess is cleaned up (goes without saying I know).  :)

Can I bring a camel ??

Thanks a lot Tafflaff for the info, but regretably I don't think I can swing a metal detector and a dog at the same time. I know that Da Monkey has a flexible lead, but it wouldn't work with Meg...she loves to run free. I can get her up to 25mph behind the car (without a lead)!

Dryland, there may be a restriction on humps, does it have one or two?

never mind the camel, can i bring my lizard?

try tying her to the bumper mate  she could do 70 easy  ::)

Ha ha ha ha

Sorry but I have to pull out of this one. My missus is going into hospital on Thursday.

What's the situation with ants? Can you check with the farmer Rob?

Worse scenario I suppose they can be left with the Keeper of the Ants! ;)

 ;D ;D

hi all took my name 4 sunday  rally sorry its short notice please let some one else go in my place ta just remembed its our grand sons birth day  he will b 8 cant let them down if I did my daughter would string me up pheew don't want that do we so have a good day all  c u 4 santas hats  thanks  sinky  ;) 8).

Sorry guys  have a rearranged kids football match to run but hope the you all have a fab

too far from wrexham  :( :(

May be a little late tomoz should be there for around 10:30

Hi all,looking forward to the dig now,will it be still on if weather is bad thanks

the weather is good for Sunday happy days

Happy days then  :) will we recieve details via email or on dw site?

You'll get a PM later today which will be announced in the shout box, don't take any notice if it says zero new messages as Admin messages aren't counted by the system ;)

Hi can anyone tell me as I've only joined in the last few days, am I a full member and able to come to tomorrows dig ?
Kev

Yes if your a member then that's all you need ;)

Cheers Geoff , hope to be there tomorrow then

Had to bomb out :(  Good luck to those going though, looking forward to seeing some nice finds :)

Hi Rob
could you please send me the details of tomorrow's rally.
cheers
Oz

Look in your pm box fella, they will be there even if it says 0 messages

Good luck to all the boys & girls for today although it sounds a bit 'wet' outside at the moment....................Doug

Hi is rallie still on today? Cheers

yes ;)

Good luck everyone for today. gutted we couldn't go but I'm recovering from an op.

Enjoyed the rally today , not much luck myself but Mike showed me  bronze/copper pin about 4" long which might be a Roman dress or hair pin. In the Hattatt Roman book there is one very similar with the dogleg at the top but a ring instead of the patterned top on Mike's. If I am correct it is a very nice find. For anyone who has a copy of the book it is on page 443 Fig.15 item 92. They are described as 1st to 4th century.

                                                            Pat. ;) ;)

JUST A THANKYOU TO ALL WHO ORGANISED TODAYS RALLY I HAD A TUDOR HAIR PIN AND QUITE A FEW BUTTONS  ANOTHER GOOD DAY WITH DETECTING WALES

THANK YOU TO ALL WHO ORGANISED TODAYS RALLY,very enjoyable  for  myself and Beanz for our first organised dig.
Nice to have met up with a few members,and officials.
Looking  forward to the Santa hat dig ,just hope its not so muddy. :o

thansk all enjoyed the day but think i may need the jet wash it the morning :D

sorry to the couple of cars i could not help to push out of the field later in the afternoon , i suffer with back problems and after pushing out a few vans and cars in the afternoon i aggrevated it further my appologies  :( :(