CRUSADER
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We have no-where left to do that we know of.
However, talking to the owner of our newest permission he stated that he had 3 other fields some distance from his farm that a detectorist stated he found a Roman Villa on. Villa is a very misused word, so I never take that at face value, more likely a farmstead (until proved otherwise). However, the story was that he hasn't returned in years but had found 2 Roman Silver. Cru'dad looked at the Archeological records for those fields & I checked out the Aerials. Both looked promising. Today we just wanted to find the fields, look at parking spots, check out the lay of the land, & see if there was any failed areas of oilseed rape.
Each field had cropmarks, first had a large linear 'settlement' of at least 180m, second a small possible Iron Age enclosure, the third was the so called Villa area which we will call the 'T Shaped Field'. It's cropmark looked like a pretty good one with trackways splitting off around a complex of enclosures. Bits of it looked Iron Age (which the Archies guessed)/Roman (which we thought). I hope it's both but at least today we confirmed the Roman activity with 2 4th C Roman Coins.
We only did 1 hour on a small grass margin on the edge of the field, only slightly bigger than a car width. (However it did cross throw the cropmarks, as this complex goes into the neighbours field)
It should be ready to detect in about 2 weeks, so excited about these fields.
However, talking to the owner of our newest permission he stated that he had 3 other fields some distance from his farm that a detectorist stated he found a Roman Villa on. Villa is a very misused word, so I never take that at face value, more likely a farmstead (until proved otherwise). However, the story was that he hasn't returned in years but had found 2 Roman Silver. Cru'dad looked at the Archeological records for those fields & I checked out the Aerials. Both looked promising. Today we just wanted to find the fields, look at parking spots, check out the lay of the land, & see if there was any failed areas of oilseed rape.
Each field had cropmarks, first had a large linear 'settlement' of at least 180m, second a small possible Iron Age enclosure, the third was the so called Villa area which we will call the 'T Shaped Field'. It's cropmark looked like a pretty good one with trackways splitting off around a complex of enclosures. Bits of it looked Iron Age (which the Archies guessed)/Roman (which we thought). I hope it's both but at least today we confirmed the Roman activity with 2 4th C Roman Coins.
We only did 1 hour on a small grass margin on the edge of the field, only slightly bigger than a car width. (However it did cross throw the cropmarks, as this complex goes into the neighbours field)
It should be ready to detect in about 2 weeks, so excited about these fields.
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