Gravel Hill Field - Day 8...THE END...ID UPDATE

[CRUSADER]

(Cru'Dad is back ) We spent our last 4 hours & 20 minutes of the year plotting the extent of the Roman Site we discovered recently. Conditions were lovely, no gloves or coats needed & the over night rain made digging all the more fun.
We had our best 1 day Roman Coin count from this field - 22 (beating a tied 21)
The Lizzy Hammered is 1602-03 (her last minted years- 7th Issue) - One I needed
1723 Netherlands Duit (STAD UTRECHT)
Countermarked Georgian ('c')
Victorian Clock Key
Jetton
Rose Farthing
Broken Tudor Clothes Fastener
Tudor Book Clasp
Medieval Buckles


Happy New Year Everyone

See my end of year post (lots of pictures):
http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,443280.0.html

 

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[NolanTheExplorer]

Re: Gravel Hill Field - Day 8...THE END...

Amazing stuff you uncover over the pond there.

 

[romeo-1]

Re: Gravel Hill Field - Day 8...THE END...

A good end! Happy New Year!

 

[CRUSADER]

Re: Gravel Hill Field - Day 8...THE END...

Amazing stuff you uncover over the pond there.

A good end! Happy New Year!

A very strong end, it's been our best Dec ever

Good luck in 2012

 

[Westfront]

Re: Gravel Hill Field - Day 8...THE END...

Hi Cru! That was an amazing finish of a succesful year! Thank You for Your inspiring posts over the year and all the best for the next!

 

[CRUSADER]

Re: Gravel Hill Field - Day 8...THE END...

Hi Cru! That was an amazing finish of a succesful year! Thank You for Your inspiring posts over the year and all the best for the next!

Thanks. Year on year we try & improve, but this one will be extremely hard to follow. We are running out of new sites, even with the thousands of acres we have, & any hiddens ones will take a huge amount of time to find. However, it's all to play for

 

[CRUSADER]

UPDATED ID:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RARE-TUDO...7388486?pt=UK_Antiquities&hash=item51941ea9c6

I always thought these Tudor Clothes fasteners looked like Jesus, but they are of 'John the Baptist' Learn something, everyday (note how mine is a different angled face)

 

[jewelerguy]

awesome coins

 

[Nutriasub]

WHATA DAY! 21 Romans, amazing!,!

And a hammered, and fastener!....amazing site, you don't think any roman silver is going to pop out? May next plough...

How many of the Romans are OK? Only two?

Congratulations

 

[CRUSADER]

WHATA DAY! 21 Romans, amazing!,! (22 not 21 which was our previous best from this land )

And a hammered, and fastener!....amazing site, you don't think any roman silver is going to pop out? May next plough... (we have now had nearly 150 Bronzes Coins, & we are both wondering why 1 Silver hasn't popped up yet )

How many of the Romans are OK? Only two? Only 3 goods ones - 1 for our Album (2 for the farmer)

Congratulations

 

[Silver Searcher]

Nice half groat wish I could get that much variety

SS

 

[CRUSADER]

Nice half groat wish I could get that much variety

SS

We had explored this massive field (over 3-4 days in March I think), early in the year because of some nice cropmarks. We soon found out that they were Bronze Age, & could only get 1 Scrappy Roman, plus 1 hammered. But I had a hunch about an area we needed to search & as luck would have it, they put nearly half of the land to Winter Stubble. Forcing our hand, as we have little other choice. Basically what I'm saying, is we spent 3-4 days missing the best area & thinking there was not much about & that it was hardly worth our effort. We were wrong.
I don't know what your choices are right now but it must be worth re-visiting some of those large promising fields - hard work but may pay off for you

 

[Silver Searcher]

Nice half groat wish I could get that much variety

SS

We had explored this massive field (over 3-4 days in March I think), early in the year because of some nice cropmarks. We soon found out that they were Bronze Age, & could only get 1 Scrappy Roman, plus 1 hammered. But I had a hunch about an area we needed to search & as luck would have it, they put nearly half of the land to Winter Stubble. Forcing our hand, as we have little other choice. Basically what I'm saying, is we spent 3-4 days missing the best area & thinking there was not much about & that it was hardly worth our effort. We were wrong.
I don't know what your choices are right now but it must be worth re-visiting some of those large promising fields - hard work but may pay off for you

It's a fantastic are, but it has seen a lot of detectors, and the area is Huge, along with the fields, finding the hot spots is hard, and a lot of the land is estate land you should do well in that area of yours, being winter stubble the ground will be nice and compact now

 

[CRUSADER]

Nice half groat wish I could get that much variety

SS

We had explored this massive field (over 3-4 days in March I think), early in the year because of some nice cropmarks. We soon found out that they were Bronze Age, & could only get 1 Scrappy Roman, plus 1 hammered. But I had a hunch about an area we needed to search & as luck would have it, they put nearly half of the land to Winter Stubble. Forcing our hand, as we have little other choice. Basically what I'm saying, is we spent 3-4 days missing the best area & thinking there was not much about & that it was hardly worth our effort. We were wrong.
I don't know what your choices are right now but it must be worth re-visiting some of those large promising fields - hard work but may pay off for you

It's a fantastic are, but it has seen a lot of detectors, and the area is Huge, along with the fields, finding the hot spots is hard, and a lot of the land is estate land you should do well in that area of yours, being winter stubble the ground will be nice and compact now

For some reason the grass/weeds have not hit this area as bad as others, the digging is near perfect (as you say) Today, I think we will find the limits of the Roman Coins, we seem to be getting the edge of the site, however they are slightly linear & maybe continue as a track across the field