Sewage Site - Day 10 + Potato Field Day 3 - Hammered & Roman Silver...

[CRUSADER]

We are sticking to our strategy of gridding a new area on The Potato Field in the morning & doing the Sewage Site (previously blank areas) in the afternoon.

Warmer day today, so no luxury of the frozen ground at the start of the day....sticky all day long....

I got the hammered right on the 1 hour point in The Potato Field, so Silver Streak saved early on.

After doing 2 hours 45 mins we had a break & then tried a wooded & pasture area for 40 mins. It was pretty much a bust, so moved to the Sewage Site for about 1.5 hours. Funny thing was we were finishing up the last run with very little off this field (Picture1), so I decided to wander over the hotspot we had already covered in the hope of just 1 scrappy. In less than 10 minutes I got a Roman Silver!


2 Crotal Bells
Medieval Purse Bar Loop
Small Medieval Belt Mount
Hammered 3 Pence of Lizzy 1568
Roman Silver of Sev. Alex.

We are overdue some payback grind sessions, but who knows...

 

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[steve_rowlands]

Yeah I went out today and looked like a mud monster from some 50's B-movie by the end of it...I found a hammered too, thinks it's a younger Henry VIII...it was.

 

[Wildcat1750]

Bravo!

 

[Underwonder]

Fabulous finds! I will be so happy the day I find a crotal bell...Those coins are awesome!

 

[pepperj]

Not the prettiest looking silvers, but your on the board early, well done.

 

[oldmxrat]

Great hunt! Keep 'em coming!

 

[Digger RJ]

Very Nice!!!!! Congrats!!!!!

 

[CRUSADER]

Not the prettiest looking silvers, but your on the board early, well done.

Exactly what we thought. We are trying high risk areas but they have good potential to throw up anything.

 

[pepperj]

Exactly what we thought. We are trying high risk areas but they have good potential to throw up anything.

It's weird how sometimes the loneliest finds field can produce a stunning keeper-random drop-or just a taste of what's really deep out of reach.
Sometimes when the soils are turn deep-it wakes it all up.

 

[CRUSADER]

Sometimes when the soils are turn deep-it wakes it all up.

Very true of productive areas.
But the Potato Field is a weird one, it has no hotspots just hammered spread evenly all over. No way of targetting them, just a large area grid.
The Sewage Site only has 2 hotspots & then lots of area of very little, even nothing. Its now these areas we hope for that 1 good turn up. If we cover enough acres I believe its possible for something like a Celtic Silver. Well worth days of very little, but we shall see....

 

[Westfront]

I like the Silver, as everyone does. But living in an area with almost no pasture and never been i want a crotal bell so bad.

 

[CRUSADER]

I like the Silver, as everyone does. But living in an area with almost no pasture and never been i want a crotal bell so bad.

If we hadn't of called this The Potato Field, in hindsight it would be Bell Field. Pretty sure by now we have had the most Crotal Bells (& that's just the complete, not all the bits we don't photo) from 1 Field. Pretty sure it was pasture for Sheep in the 16th-18th C, or maybe a holding spot for the nearby markets.

 

[Westfront]

If we hadn't of called this The Potato Field, in hindsight it would be Bell Field. Pretty sure by now we have had the most Crotal Bells (& that's just the complete, not all the bits we don't photo) from 1 Field. Pretty sure it was pasture for Sheep in the 16th-18th C, or maybe a holding spot for the nearby markets.

If you tell someone digging a roman bell is easy compared to get a crotal bell he calls you crazy... And you have a field full of them. That kills all the fun finding one...

 

[CRUSADER]

If you tell someone digging a roman bell is easy compared to get a crotal bell he calls you crazy... And you have a field full of them. That kills all the fun finding one...

Yeah, I can mostly call it, based on the signal.
They are a popular give-a-away find to the farmers, they love them, like we do. Nice to give ones that still ring with the iron pea.