Promising start.

[Urien of Rheged]

Not a new permission but it just shows how it pays to get to know the landowner. I never realised how much land was available until chatting with him. The focus of this permission is a river crossing, an ancient ford was here as well as a leper colony in the medieval era and also an Anglo Scottish battle in the 12th century. And so any detectorists *and there have been many over the years, tend to head straight to that particular area. Including myself in the past but never with any luck.
I decided to start in the field furthest from the farm and as I'd been chatting with the landowner, my already short window of opportunity was getting shorter as the sun began to drop from the sky.
Yet within the first 10 minutes I'd found a big old lead yard weight and a trade weight too. Promising.
Very promising was that within an hour I'd found two decorated medieval spindle whorls (pictured) and also a hammered.
1560-1 crosslet, Elizabeth I.
To quote Arnie....."I'll be back".

location
Lancashire, England

 

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[The Rebel]

Awesome, l'm sure the further you spread out from the main area that's been pounded more relics & coins will be found.

 

[Urien of Rheged]

Awesome, l'm sure the further you spread out from the main area that's been pounded more relics & coins will be found.

I'm hoping so my friend. It's close to home too which makes life easier and gives that bit more time in the field rather than driving.
The nights are getting a lot lighter this time of year so after work I'm hoping to be hitting the place at about 5 until bad light about 8ish. Just over three hours to see if it was an anomaly or whether I've found a hotspit of medieval (well post medieval the coin - a groat by the way)
I've heard it said that in these parts of Northern England during the medieval period people tended to stay away from major highways (including rivers when you think to the Viking longboat) and it's been noted that most of the early medieval settlements tended to be at least a mile from a Roman road or river as these where used by marauders. And so about a mile away from that river amd with no Roman roads near, fingers crossed this was a place of long forgotten activity. We'll see.

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Outstanding - good luck on the return hunts !

 

[pepperj]

Well dug on the Groat, and the 2 very nice spindle whorls.
Very promising site, "Lead is your friend"

 

[Silvermonkey]

Outstanding finds! Please keep us all posted on your future visits to this site.

 

[Digger RJ]

Not a new permission but it just shows how it pays to get to know the landowner. I never realised how much land was available until chatting with him. The focus of this permission is a river crossing, an ancient ford was here as well as a leper colony in the medieval era and also an Anglo Scottish battle in the 12th century. And so any detectorists *and there have been many over the years, tend to head straight to that particular area. Including myself in the past but never with any luck.
I decided to start in the field furthest from the farm and as I'd been chatting with the landowner, my already short window of opportunity was getting shorter as the sun began to drop from the sky.
Yet within the first 10 minutes I'd found a big old lead yard weight and a trade weight too. Promising.
Very promising was that within an hour I'd found two decorated medieval spindle whorls (pictured) and also a hammered.
1560-1 crosslet, Elizabeth I.
To quote Arnie....."I'll be back".

location
Lancashire, England
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Awesome!!!! Congrats!!!!