Digging in England

[Rubka888]

Wow. It is amazing over there. No trash, clean digging, and on every field you can find Celtic, Roman, Medieval, and Georgian. Buttons everywhere. I was a little kid in a candy shop! One day, I found 5 coins before lunch and the newest was from 1695! My first silver find was a Medieval silver brooch that was reported to the British Museum as treasure. Then, in the next hole was a King Edward I Hammered silver! Edward the Longshanks. It was quite a sight to behold. The 3rd day I found 4 silver coins and the dates were 113 AD Roman Silver, 1247 AD Henry III Hammered, 1914, and 1917. Quite a date spread. One guy in my group found 6 hammered that day and said that they found 34 hammered in the same field in one day last year! Crazy. I found so many KG's, hammered copper farthings, WW II bomb shrapnel, 1600's crotal bells, and buttons. One day I found 46 buttons! I got 2 1400's lead tokens that were used as change for silver pennies. Lots of bale seals and musket balls. The last day I got a Elizabeth I hammered silver which was nice and 2 more Roman coins. Also got a Medieval Spur which I think is so awesome. I had so many finds that I couldn't take pics of them all. I will have to wait for my export pics to come in to show you properly but here are a few for now. I hope you enjoy. It was a trip of a lifetime for me :045:

 

Amazon Forum Fav 👍

A History of Mining on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska - Grab it through Amazon!

[GB1]

 

[Timfromholland]

Wow realy realy nice finds

 

[DownNDirty]

Fantastic digs-sounds like a trip of a lifetime

 

[CRUSADER]

Lots of good finds there but you just need to inject some reality into the following statement;
''No trash, clean digging, and on every field you can find Celtic, Roman, Medieval, and Georgian.''

I dig tons of trash.
Every field is not full of Celtic, Roman, Medieval & Georgian. Just the ones you where put on.
We have permission for about 800 fields & only about 40 of them are worth our time. So only about 5% of our land permission is worth hunting via targeted research.

Best stating 'in your experience' with the land you hunted. We are not the yellow brick road, its all location, location, location.

I just don't want people to read this & get the wrong impression, glad you enjoyed it though because that is all that matters.

 

[Steve in PA]

Congrats on such a successful hunt. Going to England for a hunt is on my bucket list.

 

[Goldiver]

Great finds and looks like easy swinging too!

Steve

 

[basque-man]

Now that is a trip!!!!! Congrats on some wonderful finds!!!!

 

[scruggs]

Wow, sounds like a dream hunt. Coins everywhere and little trash, your doing great. Beautiful finds you've made!!!

 

[Rubka888]

Lots of good finds there but you just need to inject some reality into the following statement;
''No trash, clean digging, and on every field you can find Celtic, Roman, Medieval, and Georgian.''

I dig tons of trash.
Every field is not full of Celtic, Roman, Medieval & Georgian. Just the ones you where put on.
We have permission for about 800 fields & only about 40 of them are worth our time. So only about 5% of our land permission is worth hunting via targeted research.

Best stating 'in your experience' with the land you hunted. We are not the yellow brick road, its all location, location, location.

I just don't want people to read this & get the wrong impression, glad you enjoyed it though because that is all that matters.

You are correct, just the fields I was on. And in 8 days I found zero pull tabs, 1 piece of aluminum, and maybe 10 bullet shells. It was just refreshing because I dig so much state side. The fields were plowed and rolled so it made for perfect digging conditions. And the feel of being on land with so much history made every signal so interesting. I had no problems going for 11 hours a day. Can't wait to get back

 

[trapperart]

Congrats on some great finds

 

[Silver Searcher]

This dig you did in England wasn't with the Colchester group, that specialise in digs for guys across the pond was it ??

SS

 

[Scrappy]

Perfect smooth, plowed fields full of 1000+ years of relics, and no junk? I don't think you understand how lucky you were! You had quite an amazing hunt and one to remember. [emoji106]

 

[Silver Searcher]

Perfect smooth, plowed fields full of 1000+ years of relics, and no junk? I don't think you understand how lucky you were! You had quite an amazing hunt and one to remember. [emoji106]

There are no fields in England like this, all the good fields I have been on (and there's been some very good one's) have trash on them as well as the good stuff.

SS

 

[Mzjavert]

Sounds like a great trip. Now go dig up some nails and pull tabs.

 

[CRUSADER]

You are correct, just the fields I was on. And in 8 days I found zero pull tabs, 1 piece of aluminum, and maybe 10 bullet shells. It was just refreshing because I dig so much state side. The fields were plowed and rolled so it made for perfect digging conditions. And the feel of being on land with so much history made every signal so interesting. I had no problems going for 11 hours a day. Can't wait to get back

99% of the time I hunt ploughed land. We do find the odd ring pull (pull tab), but not many, other than close to roads. We get quite a bit of aluminum, as most farm workers chuck their cans out & many farmers dump their waste on fields as well as burning everything they once owned & don't want to dispose of. We get tons of shot-gun shells, horse shoes, nails, lead pieces, iron nuts & bolts, foil, bits off tractors, leather rivets, copper plating, etc.. etc...
However, I do understand the feeling of a field that anything could pop up & I can't seem to detect quick enough. I have done the odd 11 hour day but if your doing about 125 days a year you would burn out, so 4-5 hours average is sustainable without injury, surging to 7 or 8 on the best short window sites.

 

[sutphin]

DIGGING HELL .MORE LIKE ROOTENNN LIKE A HOG >NICE BUNCH FINDS>

 

[CASPER-2]

 

[pepperj]

You are correct, just the fields I was on. And in 8 days I found zero pull tabs, 1 piece of aluminum, and maybe 10 bullet shells. It was just refreshing because I dig so much state side. The fields were plowed and rolled so it made for perfect digging conditions. And the feel of being on land with so much history made every signal so interesting. I had no problems going for 11 hours a day. Can't wait to get back

CONGRATS! Getting the silver brooch is a great find, the Hammered is a crisp one for sure. Ah there's nothing like digging when the conditions are great the soils are soft, and the finds are plenty. Still doing 11hrs a day for a week or two will put the body through some hurts. Send many having a nap flat out in the field, just bone tired from digging.

It can be totally the opposite also where it sucks your brain out almost. Been out there where it has snowed, blowing so frigging hard it set the alarms off in the van while it was parked along the road. So dry where the pasture hunt was chipping the dirt out an inch or two at a time, getting a signal in a rock hard clump of soil and smashing it with the shovel to break it apart. So wet and sticky that the mud was a right over the laced part of the boots, had to scrap off the shovel on the fence post to get that clay off. Still no matter what the conditions Mother Nature throws down nothing beats digging old as over there, every good signal one has a rush of what could it be, the biggest, baddest, box of chocolates one could possibly have.

So when the suns out, the breezes are light, soils are moist, and the finds are plenty its a detecting paradise and a lifetime of memories. Here is a fair site that I happened on, a dream afternoon and the next day. You might have even stopped there on your hunt as it really produced some finds,
I know of the site where all the silvers came out of, timing is the biggest thing, First on the field after it's been rolled, or the first time ever. The plough is one's greatest friend hunting in England it freshens up a site again, or it can make it quiet again for the season.
Here's a shot of the holes looking west in the setting sun at the one site after the afternoon of just digging, it looked like that in a 360 degree sweep. Moonscape one member called it when they showed up on it a few days later.

 

[RVRoamer73]

Great finds...really a super hunt..Congrats on the trip of a lifetime...

Finds are relevant as to where on this earth you hunt.
Extra sweet Earth you've dug....very cool..