I am sure an official report will follow later from Karl or Peter, but heres my two hammered pennies worth.
I arrived late due to a late night in Cardiff, but thankfully I stopped drinking early. I knew I wouldn't be able to make the DW one and was gutted but thats life, and I feel we should equally support our clubs. About 15 hardy SCAN souls braved the elements and turned up in Chepstow on a farm that has previously treated SCAN well with Roman and Medieval finds.
My first find of note after about half an hour was a Roman bronze coin at only a few inches depth. Despite griding the area for a good 20 inutes nothing else decided to show itself as soon as I headed in another direction I hit another Roman coin and then to top it a tiny Roman minim.
Then the heavens decided to empty so I trotted back to the car to find a soggy Salty sporting at a guess a Tudor Groat that had been cut in half.
Other finds of note I saw included Stans Lt Tenne brooch - a nice early one, theat should clean up okay and Alberts William III sixpence or was it a shilling - can't remember.
I only spoke to a few people but everyone including myself had a mix of lead bag seals, buttons, broken Georgian and Medieval buckles (gutted at two of mine!
} and musket balls.
I headed home about twoish to a Sunday roast and a bottle of rioja.
A big thank you to Karl, Tom and the rest of the guys and girls that make SCAN rallies happen - I for one thoroughly enjoyed myself.
I also enjoyed watching Maxine and Debbie slip sliding their way out of the field in their Landy. I wasn't laughing quite so hard when I tried it in mine!
It was great fun though!
A wet, muddy and enjoyable day looking for our ancestors - what more could you ask for?
Cheers
Neil
