Detectingwales.com Rally 71 - The Baby Jobe Rally

[Tafflaff (Rob)]

Despite most of the UK countryside being more or less underwater for the last month or two,  Tafflaff once again managed to find us a nice farm in a very promising part of the country that was in a detectable state.

It took a bit of a leap of faith for our members to ignore the persistent rain we’d been having in the preceding days and believe in the weatherman who had predicted a largely sunny day with the occasional shower. But in the end that is exactly what we got.

The farmer and his family were very welcoming and accommodating and this farm boasted both a set of toilets and a bar which was opened up later in the day - almost unheard of luxuries on DW rallies.

Unfortunately the farmer’s young son had been the victim of a nasty accident with a horse. He was hospitalised for 6 months and in a coma for 2 months. He received extensive surgery at Birmingham Children's Hospital.

Deadlock suggested that we have a whip round to raise some money for Birmingham Children's Hospital at the rally so he went round with a bucket and the members collectively contributed £484.13 for this good cause which was handed to the farmer and his wife to pass on to the hospital.

Well done to all our members for being so generous. Even some members who were not able to come on the day made contributions.

Once we’d had the usual meeting to let everyone know where to go, the members were let off the leash and headed for the fields.

The ground was in really lovely detecting condition on the stubble fields to the north of the farm. It just it had just enough moisture to be really easy to dig to give really good signals but was not sticky on the boots. A lot of the hammered coins that subsequently appeared came from these two stubble fields.

First to appear were two Lizzie hammered pennies, one flat and one folded, from the stubble fields to the north.

This broke the ice and once things got going the finds started to come at a steady rate. GI Jan came up with a lovely decorated spindle whirl although unfortunately grazed with a spade.

Further hammered coins appeared, including a Charles I penny found by Hoover G and an Edward penny.

Towards the end of the morning, Shunngav came up with a commonwealth hammered silver penny - the first commonwealth coin he'd found and envied by many of us.

The fields continued to produce interesting finds throughout the day including what appears to be a three-legged model cauldron, a hallmarked silver spoon and many and various milled silver and bronze coins.

Late in the afternoon Svaipa found a rather interesting milled silver coin which appears to date from 1677 but with an unusual obverse which appears to be of foreign origin and will need some research to establish exactly what it is.

Nobby's efforts were also rewarded towards the end of the afternoon with a Roman brooch - the only Roman find which I know of for the day – unless anyone knows differently.

We were joined on the fields by the farmer and his family who had metal detectors of their own - This must be a first for one of our rallies. It was nice to see our hosts so interested. I hope they found something.

Thanks are due to Deadlock and Handyman for helping out with the organisation of the day and Tafflaff of course for finding the land in the first place and liaising with the farmer.

Geoff

[Tafflaff (Rob)]

and more

[Tafflaff (Rob)]

There you go guys I know there was a load more finds so if you have pics of your finds, please feel free to upload them. If you need help doing so  dont hesitate to ask me.

[matthewbullingham123]

Very good finds! be interesting to see what that mystery coin is..

[The Doc]

Great report and pics Rob  

Some nice finds  

The foreigner is a French 4 sols of Louis XIV, Lyon mint.

The Eddie penny is Edward II, class 11b, Durham mint.

[legio11augustus]

good write up , enjoyed the day.found plenty of ring pulls and silver paper,have to say the farmer and his family where brilliant, such nice people,well done all on raising the money proud to be a member of dw..and well done all on the finds

[legio11augustus]

blimey doc, awesome

[JRD]

Nice one Rob - Looked a good one, gutted I missed it. Had to pull out late last night sorry as my back was in bits and has been bad all day to day.

Good write up though and some lovely finds there.

Catch you on the next one.

[Dryland]

Thanks again to everybody for another great DW rally, a great farm with great facilities.
 I can't remember who found the silver spoon but as promised the hallmarks are
      Maker - Robert Stebbings
      London
       Date- 1895- 1896

[Da Monkey]

Excellent day by the looks of it, I'm just sorry I didnt manage to get to this one as my mother had taken a fall and cant even get out of a chair at the moment  

Great to hear that the collection went well (I'll sort you what IOU Deadlock) its going to a great cause and the Farmer and his family are such nice people, I hope that I will get to say hi again on the next occasion. Well done to DW members for raising such a great amount

Wow - a BAR    Damn, just my luck to miss it     Definitely got to be a return trip guys !!

Nice report and photos Geoff & Taff, hoping to be able to get to the next rally...

Well done guys,

- Andy

[Dryland]

It's a shame you missed it Andy as you could have got the drinks in  . Hope your mum gets well
soon mate

[Da Monkey]

Thanks mate, I hope so too as its very restricting as she needs 24/7 at the moment.

I'd have gladly bought you a pint Dylan   Even missed the after rally meal as Deadlock & Radnor Bandit managed to get one in at the Cross Keys !   Ian even managed to get a doggy bag...  

Next time.....  (fingers crossed)

[gesza]

how did I miss the bar ?

[Dryland]

You must have ducked 

[hoover-G]

Just like to say a big thank you to organisers for today always nice too get out for fresh air meet up with old faces and meeting new ones. Thanks to Geoff and nobbys bunsen burner he straightened my Charles 1st penny a treat  . Rob I think I found a far gone roman coin hard too tell but 99% certain it may well be. Fingers was falling off with cold by the end of the day so I decided too walk around with hammerd and give him some advice on how to find his hot spot lol. Glad I did as he found a silver hallmarked spoon weldone mate  good job I didn't have my xs out and hoover past it wouldn't be the first time Haa hence  the name hoover-G..anyway seen some lovely finds including that clothes fastener that was shown too us and found elsewhere previously stunning fair play. Thanks all and see you soon.