8 ounce medieval trade weight.

[Urien of Rheged]

Out into the cold of West Yorkshire down into a river valley where the snow has melted and the green fields exposed. The weather folks claimed it would be snowing by lunch yet I.manged well into the afternoon before having to take off due to "duties" at 3pm.
I was rewarded for my efforts with a fair amount of utter junk, 80's ring pulls being the most common.
I only managed to pick up one target at depth. It was high on the scale of the Nox 700 hitting 97's and 99's even and was sat just deep where the soil turns into thick clay.
Has to be the best trade weight I've recovered. The three lions of England still visible on the shield.
Not exactly a bucket lister but better than the top of a beer can.

 

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[pepperj]

Out into the cold of West Yorkshire down into a river valley where the snow has melted and the green fields exposed. The weather folks claimed it would be snowing by lunch yet I.manged well into the afternoon before having to take off due to "duties" at 3pm.
I was rewarded for my efforts with a fair amount of utter junk, 80's ring pulls being the most common.
I only managed to pick up one target at depth. It was high on the scale of the Nox 700 hitting 97's and 99's even and was sat just deep where the soil turns into thick clay.
Has to be the best trade weight I've recovered. The three lions of England still visible on the shield.
Not exactly a bucket lister but better than the top of a beer can.

Great looking trade weight, I certainly would of loved to have dug it.
Top shelf recovery 👍
Congratulations

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Congrats on a rare find !

 

[CRUSADER]

Any 'best of' is nice & yes that is a good example, not seen this type with a hole.

 

[oldmxrat]

That is a very cool piece, I think you're spoiled.

 

[Urien of Rheged]

That is a very cool piece, I think you're spoiled.

I certainly didnt feel too spoiled during that hunt my friend or to be honest most times I head out amd come back with at best a musket ball.
Compared with southern England particularly the south east whete the soil is more arable and the environment milder these are barren lands where I detect.
It's not that we lack any kind of history, important national events happened here, major battles etc. But there just wasn't the kind of concentration of populations as In the south and so less things tended to get lost during everyday life.
I can only look on I'm envy really when a detectorist from say Norfolk spends an afternoon in a field amd come back with more items in his bag than I am likely to find over the course of a month.
That doesn't stop me from enjoying the hobby though we get what we're given and we should be more than thankful for that