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More finds from the stone age field! Update Saxon/Viking Stirrup Mount
Yesterday i had a little time to detect and went for 2 1/2 hours to the stone age field. As expected not many metal finds. Usual stuff, some musket balls, scrappy coins, but managed a beautiful harness mount with a cat maybe lion. Hope Cru can make a date on it....think medieval. But the best of the day was one little musket ball. When i dug it i hit a stone which turned out as a "COMPLETE!" neolithic grinding stone! Whoohoo! Almost impossible to find. They were used as long as the stone last. Which means they were used till the middle part was so thin that the stone breaks in half. Thinking about this one i returned today with a probe and a bigger spade. Some metres from the first stone i hit something at about 20". Another part of a grinding stone! Carefully walking the area three more fragments were found. One of them matching the one i found with the probe. All other hunts at this site brought me some nice finds, but this weekend proves that this was a neolithic settlement not only a summer hunting camp. Our archie will fall right over tomorrow when he looks at the pics. A grinding stone like this is just freakin awesome. The last time it was in someones hands is 7000 years ago. A woman grinding corn for baking bread..... Here the pics!
Yesterday i had a little time to detect and went for 2 1/2 hours to the stone age field. As expected not many metal finds. Usual stuff, some musket balls, scrappy coins, but managed a beautiful harness mount with a cat maybe lion. Hope Cru can make a date on it....think medieval. But the best of the day was one little musket ball. When i dug it i hit a stone which turned out as a "COMPLETE!" neolithic grinding stone! Whoohoo! Almost impossible to find. They were used as long as the stone last. Which means they were used till the middle part was so thin that the stone breaks in half. Thinking about this one i returned today with a probe and a bigger spade. Some metres from the first stone i hit something at about 20". Another part of a grinding stone! Carefully walking the area three more fragments were found. One of them matching the one i found with the probe. All other hunts at this site brought me some nice finds, but this weekend proves that this was a neolithic settlement not only a summer hunting camp. Our archie will fall right over tomorrow when he looks at the pics. A grinding stone like this is just freakin awesome. The last time it was in someones hands is 7000 years ago. A woman grinding corn for baking bread..... Here the pics!
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