Wish List Finds - no. 3 & 6 in the same day!!! - UPDATED.......

[CRUSADER]

Wish List Finds - no. 3 & 6 in the same day!!! - UPDATED.......

Went back to the backfilled Arkie trenches & had one of our best days (10 man hours)

27 Roman Bronze Coins (best 1 day total this year!) - taking us to exactly 250 this year
1 Roman Silver Coin
Roman bronze locking pin terminal
Nice Harts Militia Button!
Wish List no.6 was my first Early Saxon Strapend circa 8th Century

Wish List no.3 is one I have raved about for some time & today is finally the day
Saxon Sceatta, circa 710-760, Series J. This fills a massive hole in my coin collection.

More importantly we have located a roman site which continued being used into the Saxon period. We have no other Saxon Sites in our local area, so you can bet we will be doing more of this field in the future

I'm so happy, I don't even care its work tomorrow, time for a drink

 

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[Don in SJ]

Re: Wish List Finds - no. 3 & 6 in the same day!!!

Cru, enough is enough, I just filled out my passport application this weekend, headin over!!

You sure are having another great year, and this group of finds is beyond most wildest expectations, you are a good hunter, lucky hunter, and sure am in a great location for our hobby.............

Don

 

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[sscindercoop]

Re: Wish List Finds - no. 3 & 6 in the same day!!!

Congrats those old coins are amazing i cant believe the condition wow. Banner !!!!

 

[CRUSADER]

Re: Wish List Finds - no. 3 & 6 in the same day!!!

Hey Crusader! Another great hunt, I see ! The largest thing in the first picture, is that a piece of an ammonite(fossil)?
Oh, yeah, Banner too !

Thanks, & Welcome to this amazing site.

Cru, enough is enough, I just filled out my passport application this weekend, headin over!!

You sure are having another great year, and this group of finds is beyond most wildest expectations, you are a good hunter, lucky hunter, and sure am in a great location for our hobby.............

Don

Thanks Don, we are having an amazing year, & we haven't even got to our best fields yet. Every year, we think we can't get better but we do!

Hey Crusader! Another great hunt, I see ! The largest thing in the first picture, is that a piece of an ammonite(fossil)?
Oh, yeah, Banner too !

Yeah, its a fossil, eyes only, next to Roman pottery bits.

 

[CRUSADER]

Re: Wish List Finds - no. 3 & 6 in the same day!!!

Incredible! Those are some BIG finds there!
Beautiful sceat--in Beautiful condition. The strap end is wonderful, and even some of your Roman scrappies look like they're in Excellent shape.
Incredible.
Best Wishes and HH,
Buckles

Cheers, mate, its still sinking in, I keep looking at it & can't believe the condition. The book only Grades them up to VF & mine is EF, easy.

 

[goldguru]

Re: Wish List Finds - no. 3 & 6 in the same day!!!

WOW

 

[RelicRick]

Re: Wish List Finds - no. 3 & 6 in the same day!!!

Once again.....quite simply amazing!! Banner!!!!!!!

 

[PBK]

Re: Wish List Finds - no. 3 & 6 in the same day!!!

Are you trying to wear out my blinking "Congratulations"?

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[RPG]

Re: Wish List Finds - no. 3 & 6 in the same day!!!

Picture no. 6 would make a great banner pic. My vote is in.

Randy

 

[Bikernico]

Re: Wish List Finds - no. 3 & 6 in the same day!!!

Nice pics
And lovely coins

 

[robfinds]

Re: Wish List Finds - no. 3 & 6 in the same day!!!

Stunning Sceat banner for sure, and a strapend what more can you say clipped silaqua is it a julian?

Honorius & they all fell to the XP I'm over the moon & will dream whats in the crop around the small areas we can do

I have never only seen one sceat come from a field, there is always more

Thats what I'm hoping, no experience of this of course, but I think I'm near a Saxon Homestead (walking distance from River & nice crop marks, that at first glance looked Iron Age). We haven't detected over the crop marks yet, we are a little distance off.

I have always thought that the clipped Roman silver coins were meant to be passed of as sceats, in the Saxon period, I mentioned this to Dr M Allen who said, there was no proof that they were, but I personely think that they were, you often see them come out on Saxon sites.

Here's one Mr Searcher.

 

[woody50]

Re: Wish List Finds - no. 3 & 6 in the same day!!!

Wow Cru, just great and wonderful finds! Really good quality!

 

[Silver Searcher]

Re: Wish List Finds - no. 3 & 6 in the same day!!!

Just wondered if you have recorded your coin(sceat) with the coin corpus :P and have you any feedback from Dr M.A.

 

[Corpsegrinder]

Re: Wish List Finds - no. 3 & 6 in the same day!!!

Damn you UK guys! Why do i have to be stuck in america where there just isnt that much old history!!?? South Arkansas doesnt have much in the way of old coins. man i wouldnt give for a week or 2 detecting around Virginia, Philly, Il, areas.

 

[CRUSADER]

Re: Wish List Finds - no. 3 & 6 in the same day!!!

Just wondered if you have recorded your coin(sceat) with the coin corpus :P and have you any feedback from Dr M.A.

Only that they called them 'shats' in Saxon times.

 

[BuckleBoy]

Re: Wish List Finds - no. 3 & 6 in the same day!!!

Incredible! Those are some BIG finds there!
Beautiful sceat--in Beautiful condition. The strap end is wonderful, and even some of your Roman scrappies look like they're in Excellent shape.
Incredible.
Best Wishes and HH,
Buckles

Cheers, mate, its still sinking in, I keep looking at it & can't believe the condition. The book only Grades them up to VF & mine is EF, easy.

I bet you had a tall frosty beverage or two after finding that.


Cheers,


Buckles

 

[CRUSADER]

Re: Wish List Finds - no. 3 & 6 in the same day!!! - UPDATED.......

UPDATED:

I have recieved information that this land is covered by a MAJOR Roman Site You can bet we will be doing this after harvest & our coin count will hit the roof

 

[goldnow]

Re: Wish List Finds - no. 3 & 6 in the same day!!! - UPDATED.......

Absolutely beautiful history you have returned topside. My Banner vote is in. That coin is a dream.

 

[shaun7]

Re: Wish List Finds - no. 3 & 6 in the same day!!! - UPDATED.......

wow! i've missed this

major congrats mate that was some day you had there, and i know how much you wanted that sceat!

why no banner?

 

[creeper71]

Re: Wish List Finds - no. 3 & 6 in the same day!!! - UPDATED.......

sorry for not being excited,but I have no clue what they are or how rare of a find it is... must be something good with all the banner votes.. (tip: to vote banner click on vote banner under name of orginal poster an type Banner in the box an send)

 

[Shawano~]

Re: Wish List Finds - no. 3 & 6 in the same day!!! - UPDATED.......

What AWESOME finds!!! I need to make my way out to England. Congrats on the great finds!!!