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« on: July 28, 2013, 09:29:03 AM »
This is inspired by Dale's post. How many have found a really nice 'eyes only find'. What are your best metal and non- metallic 'eyes only' finds'? I have had many nice fossils here in Dorset but my favourite item is a Coat of Arms probably out of a pottery storage jar or similar. I have had many metal surface finds with a detector but no decent 'eyes only'

The club I used to be in run a monthly non-metallic 'eyes only' competition and there were many nice finds. The best which I witnessed found on a club dig was the neck from a Bellarmine jar. It had the facial mask and some nice glazing. The best metallic 'eyes only' I have heard of was a groat.

So, what are yours?
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« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2013, 10:54:34 AM »
I've had a few eyes only metal finds down the years, In fact I hate it when I catch sight of a coin in front of me while I'm detecting, I feel as if I've cheated lol
Had a James I halfgroat that way but I guess my most surprising was this Denarius I found last year at the bottom of a drainage trench with not a metal detector in sight.
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« Reply #2 on: July 28, 2013, 02:42:32 PM »
I did field walking for many years ,as well as detecting and recovered many hundreds of flintcores arrowheads ,scrapers,blades,axes and pottery...I located  many prerhistoric settlements....Only one site was fully excavated around some quarries .The ecavation was known as the (Bilown Neolithic Landscape Project) and is on the web...All started from a small bag of flint ,which included arrowheads..Then ended up as a ten year excavation by Bournemouth University and 11,000 arefacts........God knows what yet is to be found on the other sites i located Smiley
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« Reply #3 on: July 29, 2013, 08:14:04 PM »
Quote from: Chef  Geoff on July 28, 2013, 10:54:34 AM
I've had a few eyes only metal finds down the years, In fact I hate it when I catch sight of a coin in front of me while I'm detecting, I feel as if I've cheated lol
Had a James I halfgroat that way but I guess my most surprising was this Denarius I found last year at the bottom of a drainage trench with not a metal detector in sight.


I can understand what you mean about feeling as though you have cheated. I have never had that feeling though as the only metal 'eyes only' I have found has been iron bits. It must have been nice though finding that denarius.
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« Reply #4 on: July 29, 2013, 08:26:04 PM »
Quote from: Spooyt Vane (Rob) on July 28, 2013, 02:42:32 PM
I did field walking for many years ,as well as detecting and recovered many hundreds of flintcores arrowheads ,scrapers,blades,axes and pottery...I located  many prerhistoric settlements....Only one site was fully excavated around some quarries .The ecavation was known as the (Bilown Neolithic Landscape Project) and is on the web...All started from a small bag of flint ,which included arrowheads..Then ended up as a ten year excavation by Bournemouth University and 11,000 arefacts........God knows what yet is to be found on the other sites i located Smiley
It must be a truly satisfying feeling to find sites like that, and to have helped to build up an understanding of what was going on at those places all that time ago.
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« Reply #5 on: July 29, 2013, 08:33:32 PM »
found a few flint bits but that's about it , I did find a 10 euro note in Dublin once , a remarkable find considering the amount of guiness I had consumed  Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy
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« Reply #6 on: July 29, 2013, 09:04:38 PM »
Amazingly my Denarius I found recent was started by seeing the first two on the surface. As they were my first and second ever Denarius for eyes only I am well happy.

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« Reply #7 on: July 29, 2013, 10:08:32 PM »
I've never been lucky enough to find a nice metal 'eyes only' but to me it was so much more rewarding to find something personal like the little hand scraper in pici.  I kept thinking to myself, wow, just think, a woman held this in her hand about 6,000 years ago, and now I'm holding it.
That meant more to me than money.

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« Reply #8 on: July 29, 2013, 10:58:52 PM »
once Found a French silver Napoleon III coin. on the surface
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« Reply #9 on: October 08, 2013, 04:37:46 PM »
more gold finds than with a machine.
inc 3 rings, a belcher chain ,numerous earings and lucky charms ,a 18crt vic broach ,and a gold half sov (1898) under a bridge in Aylseford kent.
just after i found it ,some old crones were walking over the bridge and one yelled out 'you wont find any gold down there 'and they walked off cackling to themselves .i smiled an inner smile ... Grin

and a whales tooth ,which i sold to a dealer in Portobello road for 50-00
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« Reply #10 on: October 08, 2013, 06:58:03 PM »
I think this has got to be my best eyes only find!

http://www.ukdfd.co.uk/ukdfddata/showrecords.php?product=41975&cat=500
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« Reply #11 on: October 08, 2013, 07:07:38 PM »
  on a ploughed field a tanged arrowhead my best find ever

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« Reply #12 on: October 08, 2013, 07:08:06 PM »
very nice indeed Smiley Smiley
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« Reply #13 on: October 08, 2013, 07:08:16 PM »
And your oldest Herbie Grin 4500 BC
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« Reply #14 on: October 08, 2013, 07:11:40 PM »
By far my oldest find Dale!! Smiley
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