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Title: leominster rally finds Post by: nonker10 on April 13, 2015, 11:10:20 AM had a great day at the rally yesterday.a thank you to the farmer who seemed a real gent and a big thank you to the organisors.found a couple of bits.the coin on its own and is dated 1591 and seems to have a double eagle sat on a sheild.the other side has no detail.is it russian?
many thanks simon. Title: Re: leominster rally finds Post by: Chef Geoff on April 13, 2015, 01:39:22 PM Well done Simon, that's a bit different for Herefordshire not Russian but Dutch...it's a token that was issued by the city of Groningen during the Dutch revolt against Spain ;)
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/279004 Title: Re: leominster rally finds Post by: nonker10 on April 13, 2015, 09:52:20 PM thank you geoff,on the ball as always.how did that token find it's way to a distant leominster field? i love detecting always more questions than answers.
Title: Re: leominster rally finds Post by: Chef Geoff on April 14, 2015, 12:36:17 PM Your right there and we can only ever guess at the answers but try this one on for size.....Leominster was one of the top wool producing towns in the county at that time being more prosperous than even Hereford the 16th century also saw Dutch and Flemish weavers being invited into the country to work as they were considered the best in the world, I know of a village close to me here in Somerset that has records of Walloon weavers in the 1620's and the DW rallies that we had at Hawksbury in Gloucestershire were close to two hamlets named Dunkirk and Petty France both named after the communities of weavers that once lived there. Out of the other 4 on the PAS website 3 could be explained by their being found close to known ports but I don't think you can get much further from the sea than Leominster lol and while there are obviously thousands of other scenarios that you could come up with to explain it being there this one would fit and allow you to sleep at night ;D
Title: Re: leominster rally finds Post by: congerman on April 18, 2015, 10:23:40 AM interesting finds well searched ;)
Title: Re: leominster rally finds Post by: nonker10 on April 19, 2015, 09:58:35 PM Your right there and we can only ever guess at the answers but try this one on for size.....Leominster was one of the top wool producing towns in the county at that time being more prosperous than even Hereford the 16th century also saw Dutch and Flemish weavers being invited into the country to work as they were considered the best in the world, I know of a village close to me here in Somerset that has records of Walloon weavers in the 1620's and the DW rallies that we had at Hawksbury in Gloucestershire were close to two hamlets named Dunkirk and Petty France both named after the communities of weavers that once lived there. Out of the other 4 on the PAS website 3 could be explained by their being found close to known ports but I don't think you can get much further from the sea than Leominster lol and while there are obviously thousands of other scenarios that you could come up with to explain it being there this one would fit and allow you to sleep at night ;D wow you know much more about this area than me and i live in hereford!!!!!!!!! |