Power Line Trench - ROMAN SILVER!!!

[CRUSADER]

One of our local farmers has just filled in a 5ft deep electrical power line trench across his oilseed rape field. Its a low priority field normally but its only 1 mile from a Roman Town & is next to other fields that produce quite well.
It was however the perfect opportunity this time of year to get a few digs, Dads second was part of a Lead Ampulla!
The runs were taking 1 hour before the turn around! - The longest we have done before.
After 3.5 hours we had:

Lead Cloth Seal
Medieval Leather Mount
Squashed Lead 17th C Powder Flask Lid
Jetton
2 Lead Tokens
4 Scrappies
& my best Roman Silver this year - Hadrian, AD133, Denarius!

That makes up for a slow few hunts we had recently.

 

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[Plumbata]

That's one sharp denarius, very attractive and nicely centered. Congrats!

 

[Argentium]

Very Nice looking denarius for sure - You must be getting a decent collection of Silver Emperors by now .

 

[basque-man]

Wow! Some day I'm going to have to pony up the money and head out that way!!! What a beautiful find!

 

[Bill D. (VA)]

Superb detail on your unexpected silver. Great recovery!!

 

[Mackaydon]

Looks close to this one:

RIC 244


Don,.......

 

[Scrappy]

Wow that's a sharp one! That's it! I am going outside and digging up my mother-in-laws yard...

Congrats...you can tell by just looking that's it's the "next level" of old. Great snag during the off season too!

Steve

 

[thrifty76now]

O.K,You got my attention with that fantastic hoard of ancient coins and buttons. That silver coin really has fine detail.Wish I could hunt over there.

 

[sutphin]

CRUSADER THE GROUND RAIDER I SEE THAT YOUR OUT DIGGING AGAIN. FOR YOU HAVE SO MANY FINDS FROM PAST, SOON YOU WILL HAVE NO PLACE TO PUT THEM.

 

[UnderMiner]

Nice! The legions of Rome were actively building Hadrian's Wall when that coin was struck!
So fascinating!

 

[Westfront]

Very nice one! Good score this time of the year. A bit sad with the pilgrims ampulla, i like them a lot...still a good day out!

 

[46Wheat]

It never ceases to amaze me what you guys across the pond come up with . That's something I could only dream of finding

 

[CRUSADER]

Thanks for all the nice comments.

I'm glad that this coin minted in Rome & transported to Britain for payment of the Soldiers got very little wear before loss.

I will never bore of finishing these.

 

[Trezurehunter]

Very nice

 

[creade]

Great hunt,love those Roman coins

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

The silver Roman Denarius is a beautiful find Cru, the details are still so crisp!

Not too shabby for being 1,882 years old... congratulations to your Dad on the Lead Ampulla find too!

Dave

 

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[landmagnet]

Great condition with the Hadrian. the trench was well spotted too!!

 

[CRUSADER]

Great condition with the Hadrian. the trench was well spotted too!!

About 2 weeks ago I walked along the bottom of the trench looking for Archaeology. Along the whole route I only saw one shallow Roman ditch with the odd bit of animal bone & pot. This field was so low grade they didn't have to do any Archaeological digging, the desktop study must have drawn a blank. Which wasn't the case with a nearby water pipeline (some years back).
We had both kind of forgot about it, but Dad recently did one of his drive arounds & game on....

 

[pepperj]

Great snag on the silver Cru, a very refreshing find for the off season. Too bad the ampulla had been hit it would of been a beauty.