The Roman Lion Site - Roman Silver...

[CRUSADER]

The general plan was to try this site in the morning & move to the Metal Working Site if there was not much around. We decided to stay.
We gridded for about 5.5 hours in the best area, & 30 minutes on Sestertius Hill (field next door) where it lived up to its name with 2 more!

Roman Iron Locking Mech.
30 Roman Bronze Coins
Roman Spoon Handle
Roman Bracelet bit
Near complete Roman Nail Cleaner
Vicky period pewter toy tea cup
bits...
Roman Denarius of Handrian (very black patina)

 

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[Plumbata]

I like the Roman spoon handle, have you ever found more intact examples? It's nice that your Sestertius hill still has big signals for you, how many have come from the spot? Are the obverses of the 2 sestertii chem-roached? The one on the left looks like it had nice detail when lost.

 

[washingtonian]

Nice job as always Cru. You are incredibly consistent man for as long as I can remember. Keep them coming!

 

[CRUSADER]

I like the Roman spoon handle, have you ever found more intact examples? It's nice that your Sestertius hill still has big signals for you, how many have come from the spot? Are the obverses of the 2 sestertii chem-roached? The one on the left looks like it had nice detail when lost.

Nope, only find part of the bowls or most of the handle.

Not a lot, may be 12 or so (Cru'dad has the Stats), it's just the high ratio compared to the others that is odd. (Its only a small sub-site to the Lion Site) Most are pretty rough.

 

[CRUSADER]

Nice job as always Cru. You are incredibly consistent man for as long as I can remember. Keep them coming!

Yes, hard to do when we keep taking 1000 bronzes a year from all the sites.

 

[Whyme]

My god is England paved with Roman coins and artifacts? lol. Nice finds!

 

[CRUSADER]

My god is England paved with Roman coins and artifacts? lol. Nice finds!

Only in the right places....

 

[uglymailman]

Another nice hunt Cru. Seems you always do well. The item at bottom of first pic., is that a horse's leg? Toy? Statue? Time period? Or am I seeing things? Thanks and good luck.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Always a treat to view your finds!

 

[A2coins]

Holy moly I wanna do that someday Great post

 

[Hawks88]

Nice assortment of finds. Congrats

 

[UnderMiner]

Gotta love that Hadrian fellow, built a wall to keep his nation safe. Had the soldiers of Rome build it, it's still there even today.

 

[Digger RJ]

Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[basque-man]

Amazing and beautiful finds!!! Very nice sir!!!!

 

[treblehunter]

Save some for me Cru, it might be a few years before I can afford to travel across the pond

 

[Chilli_Bee_Hives]

How did you decide where to grid? I live on a farm in the middle of the USA - should I waste time scavenging through the fields? Or is country land a 50/50?

 

[CRUSADER]

I like the Roman spoon handle, have you ever found more intact examples? It's nice that your Sestertius hill still has big signals for you, how many have come from the spot? Are the obverses of the 2 sestertii chem-roached? The one on the left looks like it had nice detail when lost.

Luck guess on my first reply, this is the stats;

''Numbers of Sestertius are indeed 12 with 8 AS & Dupondii – so 20 large coins''

 

[CRUSADER]

Another nice hunt Cru. Seems you always do well. The item at bottom of first pic., is that a horse's leg? Toy? Statue? Time period? Or am I seeing things? Thanks and good luck.

Pretty sure its a broken part of a buckle, at first I thought 18th C, but it has a much older look to the metal & decor

 

[madmantrapper]

How did you decide where to grid? I live on a farm in the middle of the USA - should I waste time scavenging through the fields? Or is country land a 50/50?

Cru is in an area where history is measured in thousands of years, in the USA we are measured in hundreds. You may find arrowheads, not so much from the Romans.

 

[CRUSADER]

How did you decide where to grid? I live on a farm in the middle of the USA - should I waste time scavenging through the fields? Or is country land a 50/50?

Mostly you need to be research lead - ie. very targeted about where you hunt. (for us this means using google earth, & other archaeological resources, old maps etc...)
Once you have narrowed down a field or a larger area, you need to use experience & landscape archaeology to guide you. ie. Where is the water source, is it free of flooding, out of the wind, etc..
You never grid until you have the signs to do so. Our basic signs are as follows;
Nails
Pieces of Lead (one of the most important for us, no lead=no site)
Pot Shards
Darker Soil
Lighter (sandy) Soil - easier to farm

When you get a combination of those signs (or in some cases just 1 of them), then you grid in every direction, until you have found the size & shape of the scatter. The scatter, as we call it are the finds that we GPS, the GPSed maps log the exact size & shape of the scatter (this varies from 1 acre to over 10 acres big), helping us grid it the next year without wasted effort.

PS. You can do what we call 'blind hunts' & scout any field you like. I then like to do this when its ploughed (& I have no other targets on the list), so I can see the 'signs' with my eyes as well as listen for nails etc (1 reason why I like a hear all set up) When scouting, I'll follow my intuition & sometimes zig-zag.