Two Bucket lister's up today!

[Urien of Rheged]

I've been hunting a permission now close to a Roman fort and settlement here in Lancashire since spring now. I've had some great finds including gold, quite a few medieval coins bit only the odd Roman coin and not in any decent condition too.

So up bright and early this morning determined to find a nice denarius I toiled away. I decided to hunt around the field gate which I know a lot of detectorists steer clear of because a lot of modern rubbish tends to accumulate and oh how glad I was too.

I was finding the expected modern rubbish but I got a very scratchy signal thst I knew was deep. My pointer decided to run out of batteries though and I'd left the spare in the car and I was getting seriously frustrated trying to squeeze the last bit if life out of the pointer, I very nearly gave up i
on the hole expecting to find nothing anyway but then I peered down and could see a nice deep green patina. It then dawned on me what I'd just come across...a bronze age Palstave axe head circa 1400BC.
Maybe I've peaked too early I'm 2025 but I really don't care!
I'll give it a good clean and post it up later. Thanks for looking folks.
What a hobby this is!
Still no Roman though. A thousand years after them and now a thousand years before.
Maybe next time then 😉🤩

 

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[sprailroad]

Won't find many of those in Oregon. About 1400 B.C.? Now there is a WOW factor. Good for you Urien. If only that thing could talk, and tell it's story.

 

[pepperj]

I'd certainly take that over a grotty old Roman bronze anyway.

Certainly a great day it turned out to be.
Hope it gains traction and goes up on the banner.
4000 yrs old
£700+
Sweet.
Will this be reported or deemed a treasure?

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

What an amazing find - congrats !

 

[ToddsPoint]

That’s an amazing find! Congrats!

 

[PetesPockets55]

Oh ... oh ... oh my what a find.
Fantastic looking relic.
Congratulations.

 

[Gene Mean]

Awesome! Can't wait to see cleaned up pictures.

 

[ToddsPoint]

I was just watching a video on Bronze Age Britain.

Here are three screen shots that show axes similar to yours.

 

[Urien of Rheged]

Thanks for the interest and positive vibes folks.

A light clean with just tepid water.
As we say in Lancashire..."Am well chuffed".

 

[Urien of Rheged]

I also found this little blighter in that field today too. This from 1648AD though so it's quite a bit more modern than a 1400BC axehead but having done a bit of searching my spinks coins of England book and a bit more searching on the Internet it turns out this rather unassuming little coin is quite the rarity and it's looking like it could be the most valuable thing I've ever found.
a memorable days detecting indeed!

for sure

 

[ironhorse]

Happy Days!
Finding something like that would make your day and then some!
I can understand why this was on your 'bucket list' ..a truly special find!
Give yourself a pat on the back for that one ..well done!!

 

[Urien of Rheged]

Happy Days!
Finding something like that would make your day and then some!
I can understand why this was on your 'bucket list' ..a truly special find!
Give yourself a pat on the back for that one ..well done!!

I started seriously detecting around 2021 and anything bronze age was high on the list. In August 2022 I unearthed a bronze age flat axe. It's not very large and it's quite crude really but as a find its as old as they come. 4000 years old. Asthetically it doesnt rate with later bronze age style though and so a palstave or socketed was still up there om that list.
Some would say the coin is the real bucket lister though. Rarer than bronze age axeheads for sure albeit not as cool.
But still check this and scroll tp the bottom😲

Charles I 1648 Pontefract Shilling, posthumous issue in name of Charles II

Charles I (1625-49), silver octagonal siege Shilling, issued from the Royalist stronghold of Pontefract Castle, dated 1648 (old style)

www.vcoins.com

 

[ArfieBoy]

Beautiful axe head. Congratulations! The coin is very interesting, too. Thanks for sharing with us.

 

[Urien of Rheged]

I'd certainly take that over a grotty old Roman bronze anyway.

Certainly a great day it turned out to be.
Hope it gains traction and goes up on the banner.
4000 yrs old
£700+
Sweet.
Will this be reported or deemed a treasure?

It will be recorded with the PAS (portable antiquities scheme) with an image with scale sent and the precise location.
The finds liason officer will be far more impressed with the Pontefract siege coin though I reckon having looked into them more.
They really are rare, struck in a 52 day period from the falling of Charles head in London to the fall of the royalist castle in Pontefract Yorkshire.
Kinda wish I'd known what a special find it is when I dug it up but hey ho I think I'll live with that one, my own fault for not being educated enough in my own nations civil war.
I didnt stay long in that part of the field either so guess where I'm off too next time I'm let of the leash...never satisfied us detectorists 😆