Is A Good Site Ever Become Barren Of Good Finds?

[Spooyt Vane]

I would offer to plough the field for free to the farmer

The farmer leases the land to a sheep farmer to run his stock and I think if you looked at these leases their is strong no cultivation clause In all these agreements ...

[david995]

finding 2 or 3  hoards on the same field was there a medieval village there ?

[150aceboy]

finding 2 or 3  hoards on the same field was there a medieval village there ?

Thinking on the same lines Dave, there must have been a substantial settlement or similar on that permission for so many hoards in one place, wonder what else could come to light if it was ploughed.

[Spooyt Vane]

finding 2 or 3  hoards on the same field was there a medieval village there ?

No village Dave and Paul ..We think there was medieval track leading south from old Nunnery (PRIORY) and the track was going through this Monastic farm where the hoard came from...In 1315 a Irish Brigande Richard de Mandiville landed an army on the Isle of man then defeated a Manx army and went on to pillage the Abbey and tortured the l;ocals over a six week period to find where they buried their silver..What I didn't pick up on all those years ago why were the centre of the coins still shiny in the centre..Then the penny dropped (excuse the pun) .I detected on Glen that was next to amusement arcade and I was getting neat piles of pre decimal pennies with a nice patina in centre .Then I remembered what idid as a child .....Wrapped up the winning in my hankie when I was a nipper and played on the swings in same glen and probably lost some of those same piles..We are also convinced that all the coins are fron  the hoard site are from same hoard ( scattered by the plough0 and they were wrapped in cloth and their might been as many six hundred coins plus..They were probably stuck together using goose grease or candle wax before stuck together as a roll before being wrapped and their was three coins stuck together ( THE ONE IN MIDDLE WAS FOREIGN  COPY)..We also think this is part of Abbey or Priory
Treasury ...

[Chef Geoff]

Not sure about an Irish brigand as Richard de Mandeville came from Oxfordshire (Cotswolds) and was the great Grandson of Geoffrey de Mandeville 1st Earl of Essex one of the most powerful knights in the country, I think he was more a man with a good eye for a bargain as he went back in 1329 with an "gang" of Scotsmen and did the same again

[Spooyt Vane]

Not sure about an Irish brigand as Richard de Mandeville came from Oxfordshire (Cotswolds) and was the great Grandson of Geoffrey de Mandeville 1st Earl of Essex one of the most powerful knights in the country, I think he was more a man with a good eye for a bargain as he went back in 1329 with an "gang" of Scotsmen and did the same again

Certainly no gentleman Geoff and he was careful to leave the  recaptured castle Rushen (now in English hands) alone..I think the ENGLISH crown allowed him with his Irish Freebooters to do some pay back on the monastic order for their support in Robert The Bruces earlier invasion without a finger being pointed at the English by the use of a Irish army..He was called a Irish Brigand by insult in  some religious quarters ..Geoff lol