Day 5 - Sheep Field - another hammered

[CRUSADER]

Its been raining for the last 3 days & we have very bad floods the worst for years. Its set to rain all weekend & I wasn't giving up & watching TV. Got my wet weather stuff on & went hunting, Dad made his excuses & dropped me of for 3.5 hours. It never stopped raining & my cheap waterproof coat was soaked through & so was I. The grass field was more like a swamp. After 1 hour of nothing, I was thinking;
"If I get 1 silver I will warm up,.............If I get one silver I will warm up" Guess what I warmed up after a nice silver hammered.

People sometimes ask how I find the good stuff & I explain it like this;
I once knew a specimen fisherman (in the days when I fished more than detected) who was asked " how do you catch so many large fish". He replied "by catching lots of small ones".

Henry III Penny 1247-72
Moneyer - Nichole
Mint - London
First one of this moneyer 8)
(This is the 3rd this year from this field, we had only plotted 5 previously in the whole field, still got over half to do)

A mystery Iron Age (Celtic) artefact (cica 2000 years old) might even be Bronze Age. Never seen anything like it in books or in collections. Looks like a Axehead pendant, could be votive??

Well worth getting rained on for 3.5 hours.

 

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[The Bulgarian]

Good job you did.

 

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[Brendan M.]

Crusader, what can I say other than the usual: Amazing stuff! If I ever get to the UK again soon I'd love to spend a day tearing up the fields with you.

That pendant really IS interesting. I've seen those Viking Thor's hammer pendants before. Maybe it's something like that?

Congrats again on the finds.

Cheers,
Brendan

 

[Admiral de Salee]

Again, the mind boggles..

So what is a hammered coin from the same century as the Magna Carta worth, anyway?

Thanks for another great find and post.

 

[CRUSADER]

Again, the mind boggles..

So what is a hammered coin from the same century as the Magna Carta worth, anyway?

Thanks for another great find and post.

Book price - £30 (ebay £15-20), not that I would sell it ever.

 

[lostlake88]

That is too cool.

 

[Mona Lisa]

Gorgeous, Crusader.

Thanks for the quote....it is so true about catching the big fish. 8)

 

[buffhunter]

great finds. Enjoy yur posts. Keep finding the hammers and keep posting them.

 

[CRUSADER]

great finds. Enjoy yur posts. Keep finding the hammers and keep posting them.

Thanks, just did (Day 6)

I really want a Saxon Sceat but thats for another day

 

[PBK]

Handsome hammered, all right ... but I'd really like to know what that "mystery" item is!

 

[CRUSADER]

Handsome hammered, all right ... but I'd really like to know what that "mystery" item is!

Yeah me too, it maybe some months until I visit the Finds Liasion Officer to get it recorded.

 

[KirkTN]

wow, I can't imagine finding a hammered coin like that. It's awesome.

Thanks for being so kind and encouraging to my kids too.

KirkTN

 

[CRUSADER]

wow, I can't imagine finding a hammered coin like that. It's awesome.

Thanks for being so kind and encouraging to my kids too.

KirkTN

I remember being given a 1791 Macclesfield halfpenny token (still got it). At the age of 7 I thought it to be the oldest coin in the world. From that day I became a coin collector which helped me later when I was a Detectorist & being a detectorist helped my coin collection. I just hope you can afford 2 coin collectors in the family

 

[Harry_Morant]

Fantastic finds Crusader - detecting in the rain obviously agrees with you

 

[au4me]

Crusader,
Cool I alway's look forward to your posts.