RARE,S BUS TRIP TO THE WOODHILL PARK RALLY, WILTS APRIL 17th 2010

[PHIL YNYSBOETH]

Our coach headed for this long awaited rally loaded with 39 expectant detectorists,including some of our friends from the Cardiff Scan Club.
We travelled through the village of Wootton Bassett,along the very street that has featured on the news recently,during the repatriation of our fallen soldiers.A very poignant moment.
The rally promised much,but only a few of the 600 or so attendees were lucky.There were the usual reports of something nice being found, but in general they were few and far between.
Never the less, some of our coach party did find some nice items.
Phil Jones,our treasurer,found a la tene brooch , complete and in amazing condition.Robert Lewis had some silver cufflinks,circa Henry 8th with the Tudor Rose engraved on them, a lovely find.
Des Thomas had a William and Mary  and some Maundy Money with “four shilling limit” on it. A gents 9ct gold ring was found by mark Watson.
Some were lucky to have found hammered coins too,Norman Oxley-Willaim 3rd shilling 1696, Ian Jones - William 3rd sixpence 1697, Karl Saltmarsh - a Lizzie half groat, Tina Pople - an Edward and a jetton, Maxine - some hammy fragments.Stuart Sutton found a nice Medieval lead token which the the letters PF on one side and the same letters reversed on the other.Rod Holt got some Georgian coins and young Ross got a musket ball….Well done everyone.
The weather was very hot and some of our members were showing signs of sun-burn.It was a day out that we all enjoyed.
Here’s to the next club outing.

RARE Vice Chairman Byron Mathews

[Roman (Ray)]

im so glad you all had a lovely day out.
as stated..the weather was lovely.really missed going myself.
but hopefully be at the next one.
ray.(librarian) lol

[bymatt666 (byron)]

lovely brooch there phil..... ...you dont really want the pic of my hoard......do you?. ....byron

[bymatt666 (byron)]

ok....my woodhill hoard....enjoy... ....byron

[Al.Thepastfinder, ( Alan )]

wow, well done again on the Brooch Phil, nice one that mate,   now your getting somewhere lad,
 some nice other finds too, nice one other people,  nice hoard Byron  lol

[zorro]

nice brooch there phil.
at least we all know where to send any cream tubes to now....byron the tube collector. we'll post your address later 

[Kev]

glad the club had a great day out,PHIL the brooch is lovely m8 well done sir

[waltonbasinman]

Glad you all had a great day and the weather looked fantastic. Phil what a cracking Le Tene well done. Just two questions though Byron. Why is Melonhead doing an impression of Gary Glitter and where is Leighton,s left hand. I think we will leave it at that, well done all.

[ROMAN STEVE]

Glad you all enjoyed yourselves cracking brooch
well done

[Salty (Karl) Cardiff Scan Club]

That brooch was really nice Phil, that's the first one of those i've seen in the flesh.

Heres the photo of my Lizzie half groat from the same day, i'll spare you the 27 medicine tubes, foils and other cr*p i had to dig before i got lucky





Salty

[Sexy Legs (Leighton)]

Is that gold, Karl, or is it a trick of the light, mate?

[melonhead]

here is a photo of the signet ring i found saturday and i was not doing an impresion of gary glitter paul i was making sure every one could see my lucky gloves that farmer phil gave me they are guaranteed to find silver or gold

[Salty (Karl) Cardiff Scan Club]

Lol, unfortunately Leighton, its a trick of the light it actually looks a lot nicer than that in the flesh.
ooh if it had been gold, the blister on my heel and the incessant moaning i've done would have been worth it

[Salty (Karl) Cardiff Scan Club]

That ring is very nice indeed melonhead, considering the slim pickings that were over there, i think the RARE bus did well

[Al.Thepastfinder, ( Alan )]

A NIce Ring Melonhead,  well done mate,  the stone is still in it too, look out,  Jo will be after it,  lol