CRUSADER
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Firstly sorry for the late post, as this is Sunday's finds, but it takes a long while for Cru'Dad to record the coins to the British Museum standard - THANKS
Once again this year we lucked in with another good field having a deeper than usual plough. We had to laugh to ourselves when the owner angrily told us that the worker had made a mistake & gone too deep. He always does a shallow turn but this one was 7.5 inches. We had to move quick as we only had a 3 day window before we had to be off.
I gridded for nearly 6 hours & Cru'Dad did 4.5.
78 Roman Bronze Coins - A 1 day record for this year.
Roman Bracelet Bits
Roman Disc Brooch
Roman Steel-Yard Weight
Roman Furniture Finial
Roman Mystery piece
1/2 Lead Token
Medieval Barrel Shaped Mount
Cut Halfpenny Short-Cross
UPDATE (From Cru'dad states the stats on the field);
''Some may wonder about why a poorer silver ratio for this site – the answer is that the site was most heavily used in the Constantine family era when very few silvers circulated. So you get a lot of AD310 to 340 coinage where in UK you get virtually no silvers.
We have found from the earlier occupation period of AD50-225 (8 denarii) and later C4th onwards AD364-400 (5 Siliqua) - periods where you get the more normal ratio of silver to bronze - while in Antoninianus period AD245-295 (only 2 silver) .
We have no silvers found for period AD 295-350 which is the norm. So in total to date (starting 2009) we have found 15 silver coins versus 1364 bronze on this site – a ratio of 1:91 (although over last 3 years only 1:339!)''
Once again this year we lucked in with another good field having a deeper than usual plough. We had to laugh to ourselves when the owner angrily told us that the worker had made a mistake & gone too deep. He always does a shallow turn but this one was 7.5 inches. We had to move quick as we only had a 3 day window before we had to be off.
I gridded for nearly 6 hours & Cru'Dad did 4.5.
78 Roman Bronze Coins - A 1 day record for this year.
Roman Bracelet Bits
Roman Disc Brooch
Roman Steel-Yard Weight
Roman Furniture Finial
Roman Mystery piece
1/2 Lead Token
Medieval Barrel Shaped Mount
Cut Halfpenny Short-Cross
UPDATE (From Cru'dad states the stats on the field);
''Some may wonder about why a poorer silver ratio for this site – the answer is that the site was most heavily used in the Constantine family era when very few silvers circulated. So you get a lot of AD310 to 340 coinage where in UK you get virtually no silvers.
We have found from the earlier occupation period of AD50-225 (8 denarii) and later C4th onwards AD364-400 (5 Siliqua) - periods where you get the more normal ratio of silver to bronze - while in Antoninianus period AD245-295 (only 2 silver) .
We have no silvers found for period AD 295-350 which is the norm. So in total to date (starting 2009) we have found 15 silver coins versus 1364 bronze on this site – a ratio of 1:91 (although over last 3 years only 1:339!)''
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to the farm hand for going that extra few inches helped out a tad. Imagine if he did a deep one right to the mineral soil.
