Best Months Hammered Total...

[CRUSADER]

I have now had 21 hammered this month (so far), which beats my previous record of 13

This is 8.5 hours of my time & 5 hours of Dads;

11 Roman Coins
4 Hammered
Nice early Jetton
Roman Furniture fitting
Buckles
17th Century Tokens
Lead Tokens
Medieval strapend
Few nice buttons including a Tudor type
bits...

The Field is 70% complete (22 acre field)

 

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[Woodland Detectors]

I love the Royal Navy button!

 

[jamesbibb]

I am beginning to wonder if the people there just decided to walk around with no clothes at alll due to them losing ALL THOSE DAMN BUTTONS!
WTG
HH

 

[pepperj]

Congrat's on the Hammered totals
Sweet Jetton really nice looking. The designs of the Tudor buttons are cool.
Wondering if some of those hammered are from the same mint?
Great hunt once again, the field is producing well.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Beautiful finds there guys!
I really love the quality stuff that pops up for you over there.
This is a really cool piece . . . any thoughts on it Cru?

Cheers,
Dave

 

[watercolor]

WOW!! What can I say except awesome

I guess I'll have to be content with the early 20th-century stuff :P

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

Now that is a month to remember!

 

[bookfisher]

I think we should trade places for six months. You hunt here and I'll hunt there.

 

[Woodland Detectors]

I think we should trade places for six months. You hunt here and I'll hunt there.

He'd get angry hunting this new stuff!

 

[49r Relics]

Spent 15 mins just looking at those pics. Save me an acre, lol (I'll put the tickets on a credit card right now). Seriously, I always look forward to reading your posts. Do you ever get historians/archaeologists from the treasure trove unit to evaluate your finds that are 300+ yrs old? If so, what kind of documentation do they provide to you on the research they did, if any? Always wondered . .

HH, Mark

 

[SkyPirate]

nice bunch finds

 

[CRUSADER]

I am beginning to wonder if the people there just decided to walk around with no clothes at alll due to them losing ALL THOSE DAMN BUTTONS!
WTG
HH

Most of the buttons were dumped in the field amounst other rubbish/sh*t.

 

[CRUSADER]

Congrat's on the Hammered totals
Sweet Jetton really nice looking. The designs of the Tudor buttons are cool.
Wondering if some of those hammered are from the same mint?
Great hunt once again, the field is producing well.

Most were London, other than the smaller one which was Calais in France (when we owned it), don't have too many of this mint.

 

[CRUSADER]

Beautiful finds there guys!
I really love the quality stuff that pops up for you over there.
This is a really cool piece . . . any thoughts on it Cru?

Cheers,
Dave

Thats the nice Tudor period button with drilled shank, always a joy to find them with the long shank still attached. (normally the plough beats me to them)

 

[Iron Patch]

Another good day!

Something I've often thought about for my own finds but would be staggering for you.... can you imagine if your ground was kind to dug finds and most everything came out in fantastic condition. Even just the coppers over the years would be worth a crazy amount of money. Of course if that was the case, making money detecting would be quite easy so you'd probably see a lot more people doing it.

 

[CRUSADER]

Do you ever get historians/archaeologists from the treasure trove unit to evaluate your finds that are 300+ yrs old? If so, what kind of documentation do they provide to you on the research they did, if any? Always wondered . .

HH, Mark

I've reported everything I need to under UK Law, to be honest that is very little, all the rest we keep detailed records of. When you hand it in you get a British Museum report on it, which is generally pretty detailed including metal content etc...

They don't have the money or resources to investigate any of my sites, they just log it (all Archaeology now is construction lead). It would be different if I handed in a hoard, which they would likely follow up with a dig.

 

[CRUSADER]

Another good day!

Something I've often thought about for my own finds but would be staggering for you.... can you imagine if your ground was kind to dug finds and most everything came out in fantastic condition. Even just the coppers over the years would be worth a crazy amount of money. Of course if that was the case, making money detecting would be quite easy so you'd probably see a lot more people doing it.

This field is the kindest we get when it comes to finds, so this is the best we can do. I've had some top conditioned 17th C Tokens from here, which are hard to find in good nick.

As you say, everyone would do it which would actually kill the prices by flooding the market I like it this way, means your grateful when it beats the odds

 

[shaun7]

I missed this

You hit the good bit then

 

[CRUSADER]

I missed this

You hit the good bit then

Not really, went over the previous good bit & took over 4 hours for the first hammered, then a bit of a streak in an area which previously had very little. Thats why you do the whole field, as you know Still a good area to complete but it may need to wait until after harvest next year

 

[shaun7]

I missed this

You hit the good bit then

Not really, went over the previous good bit & took over 4 hours for the first hammered, then a bit of a streak in an area which previously had very little. Thats why you do the whole field, as you know Still a good area to complete but it may need to wait until after harvest next year

That's what you said would happen