weekend wanderers festival of buttons

[avalon]

At least I came back with a profit after I sold two coins to one of the dealers

[Mike]

oh there were plenty of profits made that weekend steve 

[the big ox]

paid £130 for me treerat & babyrat  we walked for two and a half hours NOT A DIG ,
  but we did bump into roman ray , so not all bad , sunday was same ,if bullets were staters id,e be a happy ox ,we were in the car and on our way home by 11.
will stick to detecting wales rallys in future lol.

[adesace]

Went for the 3 days...Many bullets and buttons a silver sixpence and a ring of little age. Nearly got divorced in the process and froze to death on friday night. Besides all that enjoyed the weekend and will be going again. As everyone knows you can never know what is going to be there and have always had a great time at weekend wanderers rally's,

[beachboy (viv)]

ray why is the good looking one always in the middle of the photo  ,how did you get out through all the mud on sunday hope all your finds were good,all the best.viv

[Spooyt Vane]

Well said mate  It's a Hobby and past time and a great place to meet others. Glory hunters need to stay away and stop moaning. Enjoy the day have fun After all it's a "Hobby" Rant over !!!
TF

The penny will drop one day mate and you are right its not about finding hammered and Roman..

What? £50 just to meet people? I think your both in denial lol

Been in denial for years mate and spent many thousands in denial lol

[the-BANGOR-citizan]

Many differing views on the Rally and each to their own. I think it is now expected to represent more of a social event than a gaurenteed detecting utopia. I learnt back in 2008 it was not for me and will not be attending again. I choose last Thursday and Friday out at two of my own sites, both very succesful for differing reasons and had a day at the footy saturday and enjoyed the motocross Sunday a win, win all round for me and spent no where near fifty Quid. You wanna go, you go, just don,t run it down if you find nothing as you could say the same about any rally any where. You know next time.

[Spooyt Vane]

Many differing views on the Rally and each to their own. I think it is now expected to represent more of a social event than a gaurenteed detecting utopia. I learnt back in 2008 it was not for me and will not be attending again. I choose last Thursday and Friday out at two of my own sites, both very succesful for differing reasons and had a day at the footy saturday and enjoyed the motocross Sunday a win, win all round for me and spent no where near fifty Quid. You wanna go, you go, just don,t run it down if you find nothing as you could say the same about any rally any where. You know next time.

Well said mate ...everybody to there own and my surname is Farrer ...Where is Farrar RD as a matter of interest ?lol

[avalon]

I always try and hold rallies on productive  area’s,  and I feel gutted if no- one turns up hammered or Roman on a dig. On average 6-7 hammered usually turn up with a dig  of 20 people. So the WW bash had  about  1200 people per day on the Saturday and Sunday so they should have turned up 840 hammered over the 2 days, which sadly was not the case.

I think the Wiltshire downs are a bit hit and miss, a lot of land but very little habitation.

[mickycoin "mick"]

hi avalon, i think you have hit the nail on the head regarding, amount of land and what was actually inhabited, i think its common knowledge now that fields 6 and 11 produced the better finds they were the 2 closest fields to esstablished inhabited areas, were people  lived and worked and actually lost things to be found at a later date, my view only mickycoin

[avalon]

If the WW want to hold another button rally, I have a fresh supply for them ; D

[Mike]

now thats a large pile of buttons steve 

is that fridays finds or saturdays 

[ysbytymike]

Blimey Steve, you must have muscles like 'Garth' to dig that lot.

I have several hundred field I'm currently researching and the same runs true as far as I can make out so far about fields closer the habitation
being the more productive. I think we all get confused with what we 'see' currently and how the landscape was back in history. There was so much more
scrubland, forest and flooded estuaries back then that's possibly arable land now.

[avalon]

Hi Mike, I think they must have popped off my jeans on Friday night, when I saw the singers legs 

[Mike]

' they dont look happy , maybe we should offer them a refund ' , 

probably the same guys who pushed the toilets over