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Good deeds don't go un-rewarded....
One of the landowners friends had shown an interested in detecting & we had promised him a trip out on the nearby land. He had done a small amount of detecting without much luck. He had borrowed his farther-in-laws Shadow X5, no experience in this detect but I set him up as best as possible. (& did the digging for him)
The farm land we were going on had not been explored by us & we said where would you like to go. The owners had suggested the hill top which was newly rolled. We drove to where we thought the field was & I looked up the hill & said 'that looks good up there'. Why is that, he said? I said see those lumps & dips, they are not natural. Oh yeah. We charged up to the top of the hill & it suddenly dawned on us that we were on a roughly ploughed in oil seed rape crop. Dad & I said to get off quickly & he said don't worry it was his fault & we should be next door. However, as we made our way to the edges I picked up several lovely pieces of Roman pot including 1st Century Celtic/Roman shell-tempered ware, mortarium piece, Nene valley painted table ware, grey ware, & dog bowl type. The only missing pieces were Samian (which we may get on a later hunt). We had just found another Roman Site on the Hill, exactly where I said it looked good
When the crop is harvested & the ground ploughed next year he will call us & we will help him get his first roman coin & add a few to ours
Sadly, the next field had very little pottery & we dug lots of nails whilst I learnt the tones of his detector (only spent 1 hour before dark). Good news, he had a complete circa 1750 Shoe Buckle. Which he was very pleased with. Dad only got the 2 items in the first picture & a sixpence which we gave him.
The 2nd picture was today from a nearby field:
Lead Token
3 roman coins
bits...
Very excited about another Roman Site we can put in our back pocket, so to speak
One of the landowners friends had shown an interested in detecting & we had promised him a trip out on the nearby land. He had done a small amount of detecting without much luck. He had borrowed his farther-in-laws Shadow X5, no experience in this detect but I set him up as best as possible. (& did the digging for him)
The farm land we were going on had not been explored by us & we said where would you like to go. The owners had suggested the hill top which was newly rolled. We drove to where we thought the field was & I looked up the hill & said 'that looks good up there'. Why is that, he said? I said see those lumps & dips, they are not natural. Oh yeah. We charged up to the top of the hill & it suddenly dawned on us that we were on a roughly ploughed in oil seed rape crop. Dad & I said to get off quickly & he said don't worry it was his fault & we should be next door. However, as we made our way to the edges I picked up several lovely pieces of Roman pot including 1st Century Celtic/Roman shell-tempered ware, mortarium piece, Nene valley painted table ware, grey ware, & dog bowl type. The only missing pieces were Samian (which we may get on a later hunt). We had just found another Roman Site on the Hill, exactly where I said it looked good
When the crop is harvested & the ground ploughed next year he will call us & we will help him get his first roman coin & add a few to ours
Sadly, the next field had very little pottery & we dug lots of nails whilst I learnt the tones of his detector (only spent 1 hour before dark). Good news, he had a complete circa 1750 Shoe Buckle. Which he was very pleased with. Dad only got the 2 items in the first picture & a sixpence which we gave him.
The 2nd picture was today from a nearby field:
Lead Token
3 roman coins
bits...
Very excited about another Roman Site we can put in our back pocket, so to speak
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