Bag Seal City - Day 6 - Finished...

[CRUSADER]

It's been raining all week & today was no different. The wind was strong enough to dry us off after every shower, so we were able to finish the site in just over 5 hours. We then tried another field nearby for 15 minutes & got 3 Roman Coins whilst getting caught in the worst rain of the day. After getting soaked throw & hearing the thunder it was time to call it a day.
5 hours 30 minutes total;

44 Roman Coins
Tombac Button with MAPPEN WISBECH in reverse. Clearly not clever enough to put it in reverse in the mould. (this is the only maker I know that has done this to a Tombac).
1920s South Eastern & Chatham Railway Button (a first)
Lead Cloth Seal
18th C Clog Clasp
Bit of a Medieval Lead Seal Matrix
Bit of a Large Roman Military Brooch
Roman Twisted wire Bracelet bit
2 broken Tudor Cloth Fasteners
1872 Sixpence
1.5 Jettons

Feels good to finish this site before he drilled it!

 

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[Westfront]

Good day again and great to get the work done before drilling in the wheat. That was a fat brooch you have there!

 

[WG2020]

Crusader...congratulations on another great hunt...and for beating the drill...and as always for showing the rest of us that there truly is a lot of good finds still in the ground...good luck with your hunts...Walt

 

[Tuberale]

Crusader, I love reading what you have found. Terse, descriptive, even the drenching thunderstorm can be visualized. Thank you for posting ... again and again.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Nice job, congrats!

 

[Digger RJ]

Very Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[vpnavy]

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

It always amazes me how some of your Roman coins come out of the ground completely toasted, while others come out looking like this one!

Is this a true British Naval Button Cru, it looks similar to the one we were discussing the other day posted in the 'What is it' forum.

Dave

 

[CRUSADER]

It always amazes me how some of your Roman coins come out of the ground completely toasted, while others come out looking like this one!

Is this a true British Naval Button Cru, it looks similar to the one we were discussing the other day posted in the 'What is it' forum.

Dave

Yeap, circa WWI Royal Navy.

 

[DiggityDiggity]

insanity. every single one of your hunts is like a bucket lister hunt for me. awesome finds, m8

 

[Calabash Digger]

Great finds!

 

[steve_rowlands]

Nice finds crusader, I need some training from you.
Any help on these Yoda!

 

[Gridwalker306]

Nice finds crusader, I need some training from you.
Any help on these Yoda! View attachment 1757311 View attachment 1757312 View attachment 1757313 View attachment 1757314

Pardon me for jumping in. I'm not sure what the hammered silver coin fragment is.

The other coin is a jeton. Here's some info I found:

Medieval French copper alloy Jetton dating to the second half of the 14th century. Field of France of nine lis / triple stranded cross feury design. A similar obverse is illustrated in Mitchiner (1988:173, no.435) who suggests a dating of 1350 to c.1400 AD and in Barnard (1916: pl5, no.36) both combined with slightly different reverses to this example. The reverse is a common French type althoguh usually shown in a quatrelobe.

Obverse: Field of France of 9 fleur de lis arranged 1/2/3/2/1 within double circular border, outer border beaded, four pairs of arcs run out from the inner border, one at each corner, each arc contains a trefoil.

Obverse legend: + LE CONTE rose VRAI rose TROVVERES rose. The roses take the form of a branch with flower and trefoil leaf.

Reverse: Triple stranded cros fleuretty with quatrefoil at centre and fleur de lis in angles. The top of the fleur de lis in the angles are flanked by the letters M A in each quarter with seemingly random distributions of small stars and mascles between.

 

[CRUSADER]

Nice finds crusader, I need some training from you.
Any help on these Yoda! View attachment 1757311 View attachment 1757312 View attachment 1757313 View attachment 1757314

A silver cut qrter penny (farthing) of the Short-Cross series. It would be hard to ID which of the Kings (Henry II, Richard I, John, or Henry III) it is, as they all had the Obverse legend HENRICVS. However, the reverse has the Moneyer; RIC[ARD](ON)[], so the Moneyer is Richard of If I were going with probability, I would guess it is a cut Farthing of Henry III, Moneyer - Richard of London.
The French Jetton has already been IDed for you. It's nice to get a big early one like that, they don't turn up too often but are always a good sign your in hammered Country.

 

[steve_rowlands]

Awesome! Thanks for the hammered ID , shame 3/4 of it is somewhere else but still a nice piece of history.
Can't wait to get back out.

 

[blugotti1]

man!! you guys have it made over there across the pond with relics!! awesome!!

 

[xcopperstax]

Amazing those romans just threw their coins all over the place huh!? When you find that many coins does that indicate a market or many years of farming? Fascinating!

 

[CRUSADER]

Amazing those romans just threw their coins all over the place huh!? When you find that many coins does that indicate a market or many years of farming? Fascinating!

It's a small farming community, maybe with 1 small metal working shop.