robfinds
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Had a few cold, wet, and windy hours this morning, close to the wind mill field. The field as only just had, the stubble turned into the ground. The surface is rough, and very sticky due to all the rain we have had recently. The field is not large, and raises gently towards where the mill, once ground it's corn. signals where not that often, the main sound being the wind whistling through the head phones. The surface eyes only finds were typical of a field close to a village in England. Plenty of broken clay pipe stems, blue and white bits of 19th century willow pattern pottery, older bits of green glaze 13th century pot, and the odd bit of Roman grey ware. All the only record left of the people that once lived on and worked these fields. Star find of the morning was a silver hammered sixpence, of Elizabeth the first, dated 1561. The others finds were a mixed bag really. A medieval lead loom weight, a large nipple button 18th century, part of a medieval stirrup 13th/14th century. And what looks like a sack seal, from your side of the pond, probably for animal feed or fertilizer. All in all, not a bad start to 2018. Robert.
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