CRUSADER
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I discovered this site with a mixture of a hunch & google earth. 2 Fields away on a neighbouring farm we found the odd scrappy & fibula but no settlement signs. I felt we were close to something so I checked google earth, the best nearby 'hit' was a dark patch of soil, no crop-marks on the timelines. Cru'Dad did his archie research & found a hit on one of the 2 fields I liked. They had not clue what the crop-marks they had sourced were & covered all the bases, might be pre-historic,Roman, or Medieval!
Dad went off & got the permission, & sometimes timing is everything. They have had relatives detect their farm with nothing to show, & they had the Archies do a dig recently with nothing to show, so when Dad turned up, they just thought, off you go, you won't find anything. I think after our first 20 minutes we had coins, & the old boy was in shock (He was in a tractor nearby), then Dad just adds a bit of Treasure to the mix.
The whole time I was quietly confident because we have had quite a few knock backs this year with good intel & no finds, so I didn't want to get too excited.
It's hard to add a new site every year, but this is now our second. (Although the other was more of an annex)
7 Hours for me & 6 for Cru'Dad;
39 Bronze Roman Coins1 debased Roman Silver - Gordian III
Roman Pot Shards
Roman Running Hare Brooch
Roman Silver Ring; Can't find a parallel to this type on the PAS, & I've not seen this rather plain 3 faced type before. As Treasure, it will be off the the British Museum.
This is how we do it.
Dad went off & got the permission, & sometimes timing is everything. They have had relatives detect their farm with nothing to show, & they had the Archies do a dig recently with nothing to show, so when Dad turned up, they just thought, off you go, you won't find anything. I think after our first 20 minutes we had coins, & the old boy was in shock (He was in a tractor nearby), then Dad just adds a bit of Treasure to the mix.
The whole time I was quietly confident because we have had quite a few knock backs this year with good intel & no finds, so I didn't want to get too excited.
It's hard to add a new site every year, but this is now our second. (Although the other was more of an annex)
7 Hours for me & 6 for Cru'Dad;
39 Bronze Roman Coins1 debased Roman Silver - Gordian III
Roman Pot Shards
Roman Running Hare Brooch
Roman Silver Ring; Can't find a parallel to this type on the PAS, & I've not seen this rather plain 3 faced type before. As Treasure, it will be off the the British Museum.
This is how we do it.
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