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Nice weather today & although we didn't plan a longer session we ended up doing 6.5 hrs of gridding to finish off a section, in case this is our last hunt. Not sure if the crop will be too mature on Saturday, but we will take a look & make the call.
Still a mystery as to what was going on in this field for hundreds of years. Every outing we fill a tub up with lead & many of it is various sizes of rolled up stuff. Mainly pretty small & we have no idea why. We are also getting more than the usual Tubular Lead Weights. (See todays haul!) Some of these can be Roman but most of these are Medieval/Tudor.
As we are covering a huge grid, I was moving pretty quick & digging evener quicker, dug plenty of holes today...
17th C Button
Tudor Button
Scrap Silver
Crotal Bell
Blank Geo Halfpenny Counter-stamped 'H'
2 Spec Buckles
Tudor Clothes Fastener bit
Tudor Leather Mount
Tudor Sword Belt Fitment (Pretty sure my first complete example; it's the Hasp bit & the toggle bit that slots in, I've never found whole either)
Roman Ring Bezel
1940 Florin
Will III Sixpence (Love Token)
9 Hammered:
Nice Shortcross of King John (Pleased with this example for the album, came out the ground that clean!)
Ed I Penny - Canterbury
2 Ed I Farthings
Henry V Halfpenny
Ed III Halfpenny
Lizzy I Half Groat
James I Half Groat
Unknown York Penny
Still a mystery as to what was going on in this field for hundreds of years. Every outing we fill a tub up with lead & many of it is various sizes of rolled up stuff. Mainly pretty small & we have no idea why. We are also getting more than the usual Tubular Lead Weights. (See todays haul!) Some of these can be Roman but most of these are Medieval/Tudor.
As we are covering a huge grid, I was moving pretty quick & digging evener quicker, dug plenty of holes today...
17th C Button
Tudor Button
Scrap Silver
Crotal Bell
Blank Geo Halfpenny Counter-stamped 'H'
2 Spec Buckles
Tudor Clothes Fastener bit
Tudor Leather Mount
Tudor Sword Belt Fitment (Pretty sure my first complete example; it's the Hasp bit & the toggle bit that slots in, I've never found whole either)
Roman Ring Bezel
1940 Florin
Will III Sixpence (Love Token)
9 Hammered:
Nice Shortcross of King John (Pleased with this example for the album, came out the ground that clean!)
Ed I Penny - Canterbury
2 Ed I Farthings
Henry V Halfpenny
Ed III Halfpenny
Lizzy I Half Groat
James I Half Groat
Unknown York Penny
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