DavidBeard
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- Dec 27, 2008
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- Minelab Etrac / Garrett Pro-Pointer
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
I've been given permission to search on a new farm, still within the same county but further from my home than any of my other regular farms. It is mainly pasture again and could become another regular hunting ground as they have many acres to explore. The place isn't too far from a few of the Neolithic sites in the area so I was expecting some very old finds perhaps pre-Roman.
The first visit turned out not to be too exciting as I'd spent most of the afternoon finding my bearings wandering from one field to the next (there are many fields) trying to find where would be a good place to start a thorough search.
It threw up a few items though,
Lovely Spindle Whorl,
Old Horse Rosette,
Old Lead Bag Seal,
An Initialled Lead Post Top,
Just 4 coins; George VI and New Pennies!
And a long strip of Gilded Hammered Copper that still remains a mystery:
My second visit however, I concentrated on just one field, right at the top of the valley and it turned out to be one of my best days ever as a Metal Detectorist! Finding my oldest find to date – finding infact a relic so old that I know I won't be able to beat it in age, not in Great Britain anyway. A Copper-alloy Flat Axe:
Dating from c2500-2000 BC,
You can image how I excited I was – It was only around 7-8 inches deep, It didn't give a strong, big signal on the Etrac and I thought I was about to dig just another copper penny – how wrong could I have been?
It measures 100mm long, width across blade 43mm, width across butt 14mm, 9mm thick and weighs 161.5grams it's a beauty, the earliest type of bronze tool to be found in Britain and I'd just dug one up.
God in his wisdom also gave me another crusty Victorian penny (less I forget), A few pennies in fact, George III, George V and from 2500 BC to 1983 AD, A Liz II Pound Coin (for the beer fund!) A span of over 4000 years of humanity in my hands!
To top the excitement, just a few feet away lying on the grass was this Stag's Horn, Another beauty:
Also came away with a few fragments:
A George V 1913 Sixpence in great condition:
A Lead Bag Seal from ‘Derby’:
2 musket balls and what seems to be a lead game piece:
I spent a good few minutes talking to the farmer and his wife afterwards (a lovely couple) – and as you can image, I can't wait to get back there!
Best wishes,
David.
The first visit turned out not to be too exciting as I'd spent most of the afternoon finding my bearings wandering from one field to the next (there are many fields) trying to find where would be a good place to start a thorough search.
It threw up a few items though,
Lovely Spindle Whorl,
Old Horse Rosette,
Old Lead Bag Seal,
An Initialled Lead Post Top,
Just 4 coins; George VI and New Pennies!
And a long strip of Gilded Hammered Copper that still remains a mystery:
My second visit however, I concentrated on just one field, right at the top of the valley and it turned out to be one of my best days ever as a Metal Detectorist! Finding my oldest find to date – finding infact a relic so old that I know I won't be able to beat it in age, not in Great Britain anyway. A Copper-alloy Flat Axe:
Dating from c2500-2000 BC,
You can image how I excited I was – It was only around 7-8 inches deep, It didn't give a strong, big signal on the Etrac and I thought I was about to dig just another copper penny – how wrong could I have been?
It measures 100mm long, width across blade 43mm, width across butt 14mm, 9mm thick and weighs 161.5grams it's a beauty, the earliest type of bronze tool to be found in Britain and I'd just dug one up.
God in his wisdom also gave me another crusty Victorian penny (less I forget), A few pennies in fact, George III, George V and from 2500 BC to 1983 AD, A Liz II Pound Coin (for the beer fund!) A span of over 4000 years of humanity in my hands!
To top the excitement, just a few feet away lying on the grass was this Stag's Horn, Another beauty:
Also came away with a few fragments:
A George V 1913 Sixpence in great condition:
A Lead Bag Seal from ‘Derby’:
2 musket balls and what seems to be a lead game piece:
I spent a good few minutes talking to the farmer and his wife afterwards (a lovely couple) – and as you can image, I can't wait to get back there!
Best wishes,
David.
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