CRUSADER
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Today we had to return to the field Cru'dad got the Extremely Rare hammered from. This was our farewell trip to the field before its sold for housing. Its been a really good field to us with over 500 recordable items dating from every period starting in the Neolithic. A rare beast of a field! Although it has all periods covered the actual settlement was only during the Middle Saxon, with a big central halled house which will be fully excavated before the diggers start.
We decided to grid for 5 hours over the area Cru'dad had already done as my detector goes deeper & we have had rain recently. Including most of today! Glad we did, as we picked up lots of good finds;
Lead Medieval Button
US Air Force Enlisted Cap Badge (A first!)
A strange shovel shaped spoon bowl with holes
Any ideas?
Lead Cloth Seal
Georgian Pan/Trade Weight
3 Jettons - 1 Nice one I need
1 Rose Farthing
17th C Token (Farthing)
Counter-stamped Halfpenny
2 Roman Coins
3rd-4th C AD Roman Military Buckle (My first complete example, other than the iron pin!)
UPDATE: It maybe medieval, see below from a Roman Buckle expert;
''great buckle and thanks for sending me a photo.
I suspect though that it may medieval rather than Roman. There is a category of medieval buckle that has openwork buckle plates like that which are so similar to late Roman ones. The three projections off the buckle plate and the shape of the buckle itself make me think this is probably medieval rather than late Roman.''
Further research shows the experts are split on this rare type!
We decided to grid for 5 hours over the area Cru'dad had already done as my detector goes deeper & we have had rain recently. Including most of today! Glad we did, as we picked up lots of good finds;
Lead Medieval Button
US Air Force Enlisted Cap Badge (A first!)
A strange shovel shaped spoon bowl with holes
Any ideas?Lead Cloth Seal
Georgian Pan/Trade Weight
3 Jettons - 1 Nice one I need
1 Rose Farthing
17th C Token (Farthing)
Counter-stamped Halfpenny
2 Roman Coins
3rd-4th C AD Roman Military Buckle (My first complete example, other than the iron pin!)
UPDATE: It maybe medieval, see below from a Roman Buckle expert;''great buckle and thanks for sending me a photo.
I suspect though that it may medieval rather than Roman. There is a category of medieval buckle that has openwork buckle plates like that which are so similar to late Roman ones. The three projections off the buckle plate and the shape of the buckle itself make me think this is probably medieval rather than late Roman.''
Further research shows the experts are split on this rare type!
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