henry axford shield competition

[bymatt666 (byron)]

the henry axford inter-club competition will now take place on sunday sept 2....please meet at the cwmciddy pub on the airport road at 9 am for 9.30 convoy to the site.....there will be a BBQ and all family members are welcome.....we need as many members as possible..........byron

[bymatt666 (byron)]

                            Henry Axford shield .sept.2nd.2012
The annual inter-club competition began with members of both clubs meeting in a pub car-park then proceeding in convoy to the search site.
Forty five people in total were present , twenty five from RARE and twenty from Cardiff Scan Club . After a short welcome and briefing we were off onto the very big stubble field .
Thirty tokens had been planted to count toward the raffle of which twenty four were found . Another six tokens , painted red , were to count for the actual competition . All six were found , three by each club ! To break the tie the result was worked out by average and as Cardiff Scan had the least members present they were declared the winners of the Henry Axford shield  for the second year running . A further two tokens were buried as “ special prizes “ and both were found . The finder of the replica Serstertius won a bottle of whiskey , while the finder of the replica silver halfcrown of Queen Ann was rewarded with champagne ! Well done both .
Apart from the token hunt , members were finding the usual buttons , buckles , copper coins , lead etc . Some of the members had more luck than others , two silver Denarii were found by Norman Oxley (rare) and Alan Leeson (cardiff) . Five hammered coins surfaced during the day , Mike Davies (rare) found what was classed as the find of the day in the form of a Henry 8th Groat in beautiful condition . Pat Goode (cardiff) recovered a Henry half penny , Rod Holt (rare) had a hammered coin which is yet to be identified , Phil Holt (rare) also had a worn hammered and a small phallic brooch , possibly Roman . Ian John found a very nice Commonwealth half groat in fantastic condition . Stan Phillps (cardiff) had  
a Bristol farthing token , Roy Young(rare) found silver in the shape of a George 6th sixpence , dated 1941 . Carl Meyrick (rare) also had silver , a George 3rd sixpence circa 1820 . Ian Magee (rare) found half of a fibula brooch . A young lad , Joshua Hathway , the son of one of the Rare members , did well with his Maplins detector by finding a very old hook off a horse harness , probably used on a large farm wagon , he also had a large horseshoe , could they be connected ? .Well done Joshua .
Around 12.30 we made our way to the BBQ which had been smelling very nice across the field for ages . There were hot-dogs , curry , cakes and biscuits , along with cold drinks for our consumption . A huge thanks must go to Gwillym and Debbie for their sterling work over the hot stove for our benefit .
At the end of the day , after the reckoning up of the scores ,  the raffle was held . All the tokens found were exchanged for tickets and many prizes were claimed .
We all enjoyed our days detecting and thanks must go to the people who organised the day and spent time planting all those tokens . It was nice to socialise with friends old and new and may the good relations between our clubs continue .We look forward to the return in 2013 .
Byron Matthews . RARE vice-chairman .

[The Doc]

Great report Byron. I posted this in the Cardiff area as well, but here is another link to some pictures of the day. Norman's denarius is Trajan, Allan's is Hadrian.

Rod's hammered is an Edward I penny, and I'm pretty sure having looked at the pics close up that Ian's Commonwealth is a penny rather than a halfgroat.
 I saw Phil's hammered but didn't get a picture - there wasn't much detail left unfortunately.

Here's the link:

http://www.cardiffscanclub.co.uk/gallery/album92

[The Doc]

I've added Pat's hammered and some captions:

http://www.cardiffscanclub.co.uk/gallery/album92

[bymatt666 (byron)]

many thanks peter.......a great selection of pics........byron

[dragonsbreath(Paul)]

Enjoyed looking at that... great picture of Norman proudly showing his Denarius