Urien of Rheged
Full Member
They call it progress. And so I arrived at my favourite and most productive permission only to find portacabins, diggers, skips and a mass of hardcore rubble stacked directly on top of where I found a Henry III silver penny less than a year ago.
Medieval hotspots like this one are rare in my neck of the woods in north west of England as back in those days marauding Scots tended to cause havoc and so it less inhabited than further south and safe.
It hasnt just produced medieval goodies bit also nice finds through the centuries and was obviously inhabited throughout. Elizabethan and Stuart coins. A rare Ceylon rix dollar silver coin from 1821 and a nice world war one royal field artillery badge. Musket balls have always been plentiful too, I dont mind collecting them and never left without at least a couple.
I'm just gutted to be losing it having only had it just over a year. I like to think I've done every inch but it keeps on producing none the less, an Edward I (1300-10) silver penny only the other week.
Anyway If any of you guys fancy a flight to Manchester and a couple of hours drive im happy to share this permission over the coming weeks...days?? 😫 God knows. Just dont be mad at me if you get here and they've started putting houses up though.
Never will I let someone say that metal detecting is pillaging history. Without me and my coil this past year some of that history would have been lost forever. My finds have been recorded and archaeologists can now be at least aware of historical activity in an area no one knew.
A few finds off there....
Medieval hotspots like this one are rare in my neck of the woods in north west of England as back in those days marauding Scots tended to cause havoc and so it less inhabited than further south and safe.
It hasnt just produced medieval goodies bit also nice finds through the centuries and was obviously inhabited throughout. Elizabethan and Stuart coins. A rare Ceylon rix dollar silver coin from 1821 and a nice world war one royal field artillery badge. Musket balls have always been plentiful too, I dont mind collecting them and never left without at least a couple.
I'm just gutted to be losing it having only had it just over a year. I like to think I've done every inch but it keeps on producing none the less, an Edward I (1300-10) silver penny only the other week.
Anyway If any of you guys fancy a flight to Manchester and a couple of hours drive im happy to share this permission over the coming weeks...days?? 😫 God knows. Just dont be mad at me if you get here and they've started putting houses up though.
Never will I let someone say that metal detecting is pillaging history. Without me and my coil this past year some of that history would have been lost forever. My finds have been recorded and archaeologists can now be at least aware of historical activity in an area no one knew.
A few finds off there....
