Low Yield Roman Site gives up 2 nice Brooches & Denarius Forgery...

[CRUSADER]

This site has no name, as it has nothing special (other than 1 Celtic Gold) to call it by. Until today we haven't even had 1 Roman silver from it.
The last 2 times we were on this field it was an ankle breaker but conditions were now perfect.
As a small site it only took 5.5 hours to cover it all. I had a hunch about the downhill direction & extended our grid. This paid off with some scrappies, the silver & a brooch coming from outside our mapped scatter.
We also did 45 mins on a blind hunt in a nearby field, picked up a lot of buttons, Crotal Bell & a Cloth Seal.

19 Scrappies
What Is It Iron Hoe thingy?
Bit of Bronze Age Axe
1932 Sixpence
Plated Denarius of Carcalla (forgery)

Been some time since we have had such good brooches:
2nd C AD Umbonate Brooch with pin (Cru'dad find)
2nd C AD Disc Brooch (Not seen this design & not in my main book, my find)

 

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[jewelerguy]

cool stuff

 

[TooManyHobbies]

1932 sixpence... fresh drop?

 

[CRUSADER]

1932 sixpence... fresh drop?

Yeap, but we were glad to see it in one of Cru'dad's early digs, continued our silver streak...(took the pressure off)

 

[A2coins]

Awesome finds your finds are nothing short of amazing

 

[Kray Gelder]

Terrific finds as always. Your iron thingy - perhaps an adze, a wood shaping tool.

 

[billb]

CRU.. Congratulations Always on your major achievements

 

[Digger RJ]

Very Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

The design on the brooch your Dad found is gorgeous Cru.
I love any coin that's been personalized like this one has, even a 'holed' coin is more interesting than one without a hole.
Dave

 

[pepperj]

Top shelf brooches Cru, both of them are in amazing shape. The amount of enamelling on yours is great, I hope you'll find the design or have it recorded as a different type down the road.
Hey a Cartwheel-
Congrats to you both on a the sweet keepers.

 

[CRUSADER]

Terrific finds as always. Your iron thingy - perhaps an adze, a wood shaping tool.

Excellent, I just asked the same question in the what is it. To me it reminded me of a boat making tool & the very least a wood shaper, so that fits my guess. Pretty sure its 200 years +, but not sure how much older than that?

 

[CRUSADER]

The design on the brooch your Dad found is gorgeous Cru.
I love any coin that's been personalized like this one has, even a 'holed' coin is more interesting than one without a hole.
Dave

1797 Penny.
Yeap, this stays out the scrap bucket & joins my counter-stamped copper coins, although it's not strictly that category.

 

[CRUSADER]

Top shelf brooches Cru, both of them are in amazing shape. The amount of enamelling on yours is great, I hope you'll find the design or have it recorded as a different type down the road.
Hey a Cartwheel-
Congrats to you both on a the sweet keepers.

I didn't mean to imply it's an unknown variety, as I haven't done the deep research, it's just one I've not seen & it's not in my leading book on these. I image there are others recorded, maybe not published.

 

[K1DDO1979]

Nice finds once again crusader! [emoji2][emoji106]

 

[Westfront]

These are two absolutely beautiful brooches. We don't see them often and perfectly presented on that mortar fragment. You guys did well again!

 

[CRUSADER]

These are two absolutely beautiful brooches. We don't see them often and perfectly presented on that mortar fragment. You guys did well again!

cheers, the first to me biggest fragment of this kind of grinding pot that ive found.

 

[Westfront]

cheers, the first to me biggest fragment of this kind of grinding pot that ive found.

Stones look a bit like basalt. Our romans usually used quartz as grinding stones. Nice big piece i really like too.

 

[steve_rowlands]

The axe is great, I'd love that.