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« on: June 10, 2012, 08:00:24 PM »
Had a nice day out in sunny Oxfordshire with DaveHa & the Merrimans yesterday. One field was pasture, easy digging with a layer of bedrock about 10 inches down and very productive all in all, everyone had a good selection of coins  Smiley   We spent 2 or 3 hours there and it produced a nice 1876 Farthing amongst other finds for me (I dont seem to find many farthings for some strange reason) and it also produced a 1746 half penny which is probably the best George II copper I have to date as they just seem to dissolve Sad    No silver for anyone this time Sad

The other farm was extremely stoney, very mineralised and when we tried the Minelabs on it last time they refused to ground balance, but this time with XPs it produced a nice roman brooch complete with spring,  although broken, pitted and missing it's catch plate, the spring still freely moves  Shocked  Quality British or Italian engineering after 2000 years  Grin   Deus showed a GB of 65 at one point  Shocked never seen it run that low before...

Looking forward to them cutting some of the hay soon...

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« Reply #1 on: June 10, 2012, 08:07:16 PM »
Wow Nice finds DA Monkey. Well done
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« Reply #2 on: June 10, 2012, 08:16:50 PM »
Well done DM, the spring in the brooch is in stunning condition Wink
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« Reply #3 on: June 10, 2012, 09:35:23 PM »
Cheers Cherry & Bob, I was very happy with them Smiley  Thanks Geoff, I've not had one with the spring still attached before, this is No.5 so far. Pity the brooch itself is so badly pitted, but Its nice to see how they made them, fascinating for such a long time ago, we havent really improved things much in 2000 years, just automated the processes really. I thought it was a bit odd that the spring had broken off exactly at the same length as where the catchplate has broken as well, I wonder how that happened Huh  
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« Reply #4 on: June 11, 2012, 10:48:26 PM »
was a good day all round, the rocky roman field has more to offer i think, very hard to dig though. Those monster burgers on the way home was the best part of the day!
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