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                             East stratton charity rally
                                15th april 2012
We set off from Nantgarw , on time at 7.00am , in a coach which resembled a silver bullet and had a seating arrangement like a Boeing 747 . Unfortunately the usual 30 seater coach had been booked out so we were given this 70 seater instead , so we had plenty of room to stretch out .
We were met by one of the organisers to guide us to the site and park the coach in a covenient
position near the entrance to the fields .The rally was in aid of the local church's restoration fund so we were asked if we would fill out a “gift aid” form so they could reclaim the tax on our donations, many of us did so.
There were huge fields available , they had been ploughed and seeded so the going was pretty good. Although the sun was out most of the day, the colour in our cheeks was from the pretty strong wind that blew all day .The rally was well attended, at least three hundred detectorists were there. The FLO's table had a queue waiting to record finds all day, even right up to 4.30 when were leaving.
As usual our members had differing luck on the finds front . Most had the usual buckles,musket.....read full report at  www.raremdclub.co.uk (http://www.raremdclub.co.uk)

and i do know that Melonhead came back from there with a cut quarter. ;)

and thats where my cut half of henry III came from

byron

Can not see a full report at www.raremdclub.co.uk (http://www.raremdclub.co.uk)

I was at the rally and there was more like 500 people  >:(

The east stratton rally in my opinion was a complete waste of time it had obviously !! been done to death to say the least  :P it had been promoted on the net by certain sites which stated it was one of the best rallys ever ::) and that the field directly in front of the manor house was a real hotspot with over 150 hammereds found there previously  ??? but it was very contaminated by Iron the only truth to the story went up and down that field for two hours one pewter button and bits of rubbish reminded me of the sketch from little britain I saw you comming :'(

the report is now on the RARE site, i had emailed it to our site-admin last night.....he probably did'nt have time until later today to get it on.......byron

Thanks Byron, great writeup

fab day out ....and fab find 4 me...... ;D

here is melonhead's  cut quarter from the rally............."it's probably a class 4 cut short cross farthing of Richard I, but insufficient detail remains for a close enough classification . The moneyer is probably Randulf (Norwich or Northampton)". ;) rod blunt UKDFD

nice one kev...... ;).....he was chuffed with it........ ;D.......byron