Roman Lion Head

[Westfront]

Went back to the potatoe field i detected thursday. There was only one row harvested and hoped the farmer did more but had no luck... Did the one row again with no success. Switched over to a tractor track 10 metres away and started pulling lead. Great sign, but again, not more. I did one track 50 metres down into the field and the other track back. I pulled a piece i thought it was lead again and stuffed it into the pouch. Managed a thimble close to the truck and went home. When cleaning everything up the piece of lead turned into a beautiful roman lion mount. Here is one sold in an auction: http://www.hermann-historica-archiv...=NR_LOT&c=1814&t=temartic_A_GB&db=kat61_a.txt

 

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[CRUSADER]

Still better than we did

 

[yo6oej]

Amazing the roman lion mount.Congrats !

 

[vpnavy]

Great finds! Thanks for sharing...

 

[CMDiamonddawg]

Old Roman lion is kool relic , Westfront !

wish there were ancient stuff here in the USA ,like those 50 cal

real battle field relics of WW II

CMD

 

[Westfront]

Thanks CMD, these .50s are everywhere, this time there was a silver tipped one present. We dig armor piercing, tracer, blue tipped incindiary by the dozend, but rarely the silver tip ap/incindiary. I live in the flight corridor the bombers used on their raids to the Ruhrgebiet. Air battles almost every day plus the low level attacks winter 44/45.... German pulltabs...

Made a cleaned up pic of the Lions Head:

 

[uglymailman]

What,no sliver Lu? Very nice find. What would that have been on? Wishing you luck.

 

[Westfront]

Hi Tim! No silver this time. It will come again soon! This time i'm happy with the lion head. It was probably on a chest or box of some kind. Crusader helped with ID.

 

[MichiganMan]

I love finding historical artifacts, historical things with a story; whether it be metal detecting or searching through old rooms at the farmhouse. I would be a happy man if I lived in Great Britain and all I did was metal detect and did archeological digs throughout Europe. My family is from Germany (Kott), Scotland (McNally), and England (Brewster, Osborn, Frost) mainly.
You live in a awesome place to dig history! Great finds and God bless your endeavors to be the best at what you do.

 

[mihmar79]

nice find! gz!

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[g-olden years]

Congrats on the lion's head! Like that thimble also! Andi

 

[jfreakofkorn]

interesting finds here ... thxs for the share =)

 

[robfinds]

Nice mount

 

[Westfront]

Thanks all, i cant wait to get back to this site in a couple weeks. I knew the roman site in the next field well but didn't know that it expands over the complete hill. Hopefully more will show up there!