Was planning on going straight to the Medieval field today but as we had a good spell of rain last night I thought I would go to a Roman field on higher ground about a mile away
, this was in stubble and has produced some nice Iron Age finds over the years
, as this field is to be left over Winter and planted in spring I thought I would do another series of reports later on with my searches and see what turns up, watch this space!! As I started to detect I soon realised that the stubble was still stiff and needs a bit of frost and time to become more workable
, however I persevered for an hour or so but all I could think about was that I should be down the medieval field, as the soil on the hill was surprisingly dry I thought maybe it would not be so bad after all so I decided to move to the medieval field, on my way to the car I came across a badger set with fresh earth excavated, as I ran the coil over the excavated soil I had a nice signal and thoughts of a nice coin that may have been brought up by the badgers only to be disappointed by a piece of lead, that was it for this field for now, another search another day was in order.
Five minutes later I found myself back to the medieval field, the crop is now showing, but conditions were perfect, of the items in the picture the complete Asymmetrical Buckle was nice to find dating around late 14th to early 15th century the arm was proberly used to suspend a purse or other personal possession, there is also a small mount which looks like it was attached to possibly leather in the shape of a shield, it looks like a griffin on it and has traces of red enamel still. My very last signal turned out to be a nice hammered penny yet to be identified, this means in all my visits I have had hammered coins so far, I plan to go back tomorrow weather permitting. Paul
