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Title: Worthwhile in the end......... Post by: benny on July 26, 2009, 07:10:55 PM Was dead keen to get back out on the field today so turned up and the machine was running by 7:45 this morning! I was expecting some more hammered to turn up after last sunday.
Anyway,by 10:20 I'd found bugger all but scrap,cartridge ends and the usual rubbish that seems to turn up everywhere and was starting to get a bit disheartened when I got a nice sharp signal. Out popped a bit of bronze which I thought was just gonna be dross but then noticed a bearded bloke wearing a radiate on there. Nice! Roman coin,bit ragged round the edges but enough to keep me in the field a bit longer(glad I did)! Title: Re: Worthwhile in the end......... Post by: Stig(The) on July 26, 2009, 07:14:37 PM Get On ! Nice find mate ! ;)
Title: Re: Worthwhile in the end......... Post by: Neil on July 26, 2009, 07:23:39 PM Well done Benny - a roman always makes my day, even if nothing elde comes out - you know the old adage! "Where theres one . . ."
Amazing how often romans turn up in the lost unlikely of fields - there must have been millions of coins in circulation. I even found a bronze Roman key once in a horse stable, just outside it in Cardiff! Nothing else Roman ever came out - most bizzare! Neil Title: Re: Worthwhile in the end......... Post by: benny on July 26, 2009, 07:26:59 PM After a quick cup outta me flask and a sandwich I carried on searching and had a fair sized musketball, a George 3rd halfpenny and a big evil looking bullet with a hollow point. Then I got a right earbashing off the next signal,only two inches deep and something I've never found but seen pics of in magazines-a jaws harp!
Title: Re: Worthwhile in the end......... Post by: Stig(The) on July 26, 2009, 07:30:13 PM Jaws Or Jews Bud ;D
Title: Re: Worthwhile in the end......... Post by: Al.Thepastfinder, ( Alan ) on July 26, 2009, 07:33:13 PM well done on the coin Benny, and on the Jaws harp too, by the size it looks like an 18th centry one.
Title: Re: Worthwhile in the end......... Post by: mole on July 26, 2009, 07:36:48 PM Good work Benny :) the roman still as a fair amount of detail like the Jaws harp never found one ;)
Title: Re: Worthwhile in the end......... Post by: benny on July 26, 2009, 07:38:30 PM Next thing of any note that turned up was this thing-any ideas anyone? Thought it might be one of those clothes fasteners or maybe off a key would be nice if anyone could i.d. it.
Anyway someone will **** on my fire here and tell me I'm wrong but I found what I'm pretty sure is a saxon strap end. Hope it is because it will be my first saxon find if so. It's very fragile and got a crack in it but you can see a pattern on it. Title: Re: Worthwhile in the end......... Post by: hedgehog on July 26, 2009, 07:45:11 PM Wow Benny , some nice finds there, the trefoil one looks like it could be a key, the strap end is definitely anglo saxon!
Title: Re: Worthwhile in the end......... Post by: benny on July 26, 2009, 08:05:07 PM Just uploaded the last pics of todays bits. Had this buckle too. Mediaevel? Was gonna give up this morning until the roman coin came out glad I never! Itching to get back out there now!
Title: Re: Worthwhile in the end......... Post by: silky on July 26, 2009, 08:18:03 PM well done benny defo saxon strapend ,a fair selection there welldone :)
Title: Re: Worthwhile in the end......... Post by: cardiff bats (Paul) on July 26, 2009, 08:20:40 PM great finds ;D
Title: Re: Worthwhile in the end......... Post by: coleggwent(phil) on July 26, 2009, 08:21:54 PM well done benny on your finds some nice ones there that is for sure saxon no one made them like that found three this year vrey much the same so well done on your first saxon find mate that is a good site keep at it best of luck (phil) ;)
Title: Re: Worthwhile in the end......... Post by: Tafflaff (Rob) on July 26, 2009, 08:40:27 PM Well done Benny cracking finds fella , just goes to show dont it! Never give up.
Nearest 've got to Saxon is a Citroen Saxon . :D Title: Re: Worthwhile in the end......... Post by: DIGGA on July 26, 2009, 08:58:18 PM WELL DONE ON SOME BRILLIANT FINDS MATE ,,,, I BET YOU WILL BE BACK IN THOSE FIELDS AS SOON AS POSS ,,,,,,, I KNOW I WOULD ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Worthwhile in the end......... Post by: simon c on July 26, 2009, 10:01:33 PM Nice finds Benny,definately Saxon strapend,well done :)
Title: Re: Worthwhile in the end......... Post by: vitallius (Dave) on July 27, 2009, 12:06:51 AM Superb Benny well done mate good finds ;D Dave
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