Our Own Private Archie Dig.....

[CRUSADER]

Today we spent the morning presenting our finds of 1 of our biggest land-owners & handing over some of it. After this, Cru'dad split off to present another lot of finds to another owner & Land-Mag & I started our Archie Dig.
This dig is privately funded by us & is in collaboration with the Archies (all Amateurs like me) & it is building on previous work;
Geophysical Surveys both Mag. & Res.
Gridded Field Walked Pottery Plots
Our Metal Detecting Survey/data since 2009.

This test trench is to build a further case for more work, if it's as important as we suspect. Today was purely taking off the top soil & the real work will start tomorrow, so I'll update later. Although we have already come down onto a hard-packed Roman demolition layer, which we hope hides a floor underneath.

Whilst I was waiting for the digger, I did a couple of grass digs & got 2 Roman Coins in a 1 hour hunt.

When Cru'dad joined us later from the other farm he had hunted a Roman/Saxon Site (very low yield one) for 1.5 hrs & had nothing until he was OTWBTTC. Even funnier the Roman Siliqua of Valens (one we need, Rome mint), was found because after digging a large bit of lead, outside of the normal spread of coins, he did a little circle around it & thought, this sounds good, maybe its more lead, or maybe not.... (talk about flukey)

 

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[xr7ator]

Cool stuff, Cru!

 

[dirtlooter]

yes, very cool stuff

 

[pa-dirt_nc-sand]

Sounds like a fun project. Congrats on your finds!

 

[Westfront]

Good luck with your dig! Hope you find what is expected. And congrats to Crudad! A bit damage, but Silver is Silver!

 

[CRUSADER]

Good luck with your dig! Hope you find what is expected. And congrats to Crudad! A bit damage, but Silver is Silver!

We don't want to over hype it, so fingers crossed.

Cru'dads silver makes 34, our best ever year.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Nice stuff!

 

[A2coins]

I think just one of those coins and Id be happy for life.. Thanks for posting em and good luck my Friends, Tommy

 

[Whyme]

Very cool! Good luck!

 

[villagenut]

I would just love to screen that trench for you. Look forward to see what shows up

 

[Calabash Digger]

Wow!

 

[Gene Mean]

Congrats and thanks for the great narrative as usual. Keep us posted. Hopefully your research and hard digging will be worthwhile.

 

[Kray Gelder]

There is nothing amateur about your work, or your results. In fact, your efforts rise above, say, a team of university archies, in that you share all of your historic finds with the rest of us! Thank you.

 

[CRUSADER]

There is nothing amateur about your work, or your results. In fact, your efforts rise above, say, a team of university archies, in that you share all of your historic finds with the rest of us! Thank you.

Thanks, although these results are a combination of great team-work which is us all playing off our strengths, mine is mostly speed detecting & finds identification (plus sniffing out the best area). Cru'dad does all the heavy lifting with the recording & Land-Mag pulls together the researching/permission/networking angle. Its like the 3 sides of the Fire Triangle, it only takes 1 of them to be taken away for the fire to go out.(& yes we are on Fire)

Good point on sharing though as many things do just get stored away out of site.

 

[rick67]

When Cru'dad joined us later from the other farm he had hunted a Roman/Saxon Site (very low yield one) for 1.5 hrs & had nothing until he was OTWBTTC.

ROFLMFAO!