Saturday’s Finds xx

[blossom]

A damp and dreary day here, but undaunted we headed back into the mud!

Nice little Fibula to start you off, then the bottom bit from another one, gorgeous spur, lead bead, decorative bit, lovely button, then the most complete buttons I think we have ever found (I mean with the loops still on) big ole Roman nail, weird bit, flint arrow, my nice Roman, and Himself’s first hammered of the year, which I believe is a Henry the 8th! Xx

Now here is some interesting news.. these fields we have been in today are just outside the village… and there is an archeological dig going on, and they have found a 13th century Croft…🤯…. Will do a map in a bit and try and show you all how close it all is! If I try and do it now, a certain Pirate will be cross I’m late posting 🤨 xx

 

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[robertk]

A great day in the fields for you! Lots of buttons!

I wonder how old that flint arrow point is? (The history of peoples and projectiles is quite a bit different in your part of the world than mine.)

 

[ArfieBoy]

Great bunch of finds! And the archaeologists nearby don't bother you about your detectors? Cool! Congratulations on your hunt results! As always, thanks for sharing!

 

[blossom]

Yellow swirl archeological dig
Red line Roman road
Green blobs Roman coins the one on it’s own is mine today, the others are where himself has been finding them xx

 

[robertk]

What are they hoping to find at the archaeological dig?

 

[blossom]

What are they hoping to find at the archaeological dig?

Not sure… we thought they were building a houses… until i saw this on the local facebook page!!! xx

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Excellent finds - congrats !

 

[Almy]

Thank you for the usual great post! I'd like to visit that early croft dig. Your site is close enough so people from the same time must have wandered over it, and dropped things...

 

[Gene Mean]

Great hunt!! Cheers🍻
The dig is funded by Lagan Homes so maybe they were going to build and found the site.

 

[pepperj]

Good in the mud!
Well done on Fibula, and the bronze.
Nice assortment of buttons today, getting them with the loop attached is always a bonus.
Congrats on himself's first hammered. 👏

Like the FB post of the dig, inviting folks to have a look, and even to look at the finds.
Here it's a secret.

 

[releventchair]

View attachment 2192535Yellow swirl archeological dig
Red line Roman road
Green blobs Roman coins the one on it’s own is mine today, the others are where himself has been finding them xx

Despite the highwaisted croft claimers mucking and scratching about causing rift speculations I've taken the liberty of thoroughly researching the area through your recoveries and posts.

An evolution of fasteners is rather apparent with time.
Firstly with the fibula retention system of the toga era. Later revisited among certain elven folk and the stray Hobbits's.

All was fine with the exception of windy days and the effect of what fluttered about as much as hospital gowns flashing peeks at things the landed gentry were slightly shocked by. (Their being able to afford things such as being shocked. )
But even that wasn't enough to demand change.

Your site of Roman coins and fibulas (and this last hunt a spur) however indicate a rare Roman cavalry training facility.
Not to be confused with the nearby gambling track where graduates making a full circle astride were lauded and cheered.
The problem being trying to mount a horse wearing a toga without stepping on what amounted to a dress and either renting the fabric or ; breaking the fastener/fibula. Thereby exposing the landed gentry to oft shocking sights.

Thence was born the button. It's inventor hoisted high and lauded in parade with great enthusiasm until a buttons fastening fiber yielded and his toga exposed the landed gentry to...Well you get the picture.
But buttons were obviously by their counts recovered ; better than fibulas for breaking.
Over time feverish fastener development sought to humble the long standing button after button design paced through varied attempts to keep them secure lest the landed gentry's protests of sights rather unseen be ignored.
Thence arrived the year 1851 and the creation of the zipper.
Togas had become the surplice and the surplice a frock..

The button reigned. Sites such as the alleged croft (here's hoping it wasn't the Roman cavalry's sprained ankle ward from attempted horse mounting ; or worse their loo) hasn't turned up any relics newer than 1851. How do we know? The lack of zippers recovered.
And how many zippers were recovered on the cavalry site? Right.

I would caution the alleged croft site folks that the year of the great zipper introduction falls in with the Common Lodging Houses act. look closely for zipper teeth above the earlier relics.



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[oldmxrat]

Many wonderful finds there, congrats!

 

[The Rebel]

Nicely done blossom!

 

[beepbleep]

Great finds Blossom! I was just thinking about you showing up at their dig with your detector. Naw, they'd be jealous.

ps looks like you have the best spot anyway.

 

[CRUSADER]

Found old coppernose.
The coins some distance from the Road follows a familiar pattern that we noticed when plotting Roman Sites...

 

[cudamark]

Nice finds! All well and good, but, what's a croft?

 

[blossom]

Nice finds! All well and good, but, what's a croft?

Croft Meaning…. A small agricultural unit. The person who lives on the croft is called a crofter. A croft is the land, not the house the crofter lives in. Crofts are usually rented. They are often part of large estates where the landowner is the crofter's landlord.