Return to the Potato Field - Day 1 - 3 Hammered!

[CRUSADER]

This field was a new permission that I gained via door knocking last year. I choose this field because as I cycled by it I liked that it looked sandy. That was the only clue I needed to want to hunt it & last year we were very successful with a few hammered & my 16th C Gold Ring. The problem was that it was full of weeds that got to waist height, but now they have ploughed some of the field ready for spring drilling.
It's about a 7 inch turn & has yet to be disced down, but it's good enough for now.

1 Scrappy
Livery Button
18th C Militia Button
Neolithic Flint Scrapper (I saw lots of flint wasters today, so I'm keeping my eye out for some better ones...)
Broken 16th C Sword Belt Fitment
Jetton
1.5 Lead Tokens
Blank Silver Shilling Counter-stamped BM
2 grotty hammered
Cut half of Henry II, 1180-89, Gerard of York - Scarce coin that I need.

 

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[Professor of Engineering]

Another great hunt, congrats!

 

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[dirtlooter]

always crazy amazing. I love it all and am jealous as always. The flint is off the charts, hope you find more and better ones, very cool

 

[CRUSADER]

Nice recoveries, Cru. We on occasion find some old coins counter
stamped here too. Can you tell me what the purpose in counter stamping was?

Sorry for the late response, I was going to answer this & got distracted.

The counter-stamping of coins which is an unoffical mark as appposed to a counter-mark that is offical has many known reason, and a few unknown as well.
The common known reason's are advertising of their business.
Silver-smith's would put on their mark to show that a blank coin (no longer recognisable to the public as a coin) was in fact made of silver, which implies it still had trade value.
Homemade counter-stamps done for 'fun' or unknown reasons.
Unknown marks with no obivious reason.

 

[A2coins]

Amazing my friend good job saving all the history. Thanks for always sharing. Tommy

 

[eaglecent8]

This field was a new permission that I gained via door knocking last year. I choose this field because as I cycled by it I liked that it looked sandy. That was the only clue I needed to want to hunt it & last year we were very successful with a few hammered & my 16th C Gold Ring. The problem was that it was full of weeds that got to waist height, but now they have ploughed some of the field ready for spring drilling.
It's about a 7 inch turn & has yet to be disced down, but it's good enough for now.

1 Scrappy
Livery Button
18th C Militia Button
Neolithic Flint Scrapper (I saw lots of flint wasters today, so I'm keeping my eye out for some better ones...)
Broken 16th C Sword Belt Fitment
Jetton
1.5 Lead Tokens
Blank Silver Shilling Counter-stamped BM
2 grotty hammered
Cut half of Henry II, 1180-89, Gerard of York - Scarce coin that I need.

that is a awesome find!

 

[HEAVYMETALNUT]

I never seen you have a bad outing yet.amazing!

 

[CRUSADER]

I never seen you have a bad outing yet.amazing!

Last year we had a couple of slow days, low yield finds, but your right it's hard to remember a 'bad outing'.

 

[Johncoho]

Sorry for the late response, I was going to answer this & got distracted.

The counter-stamping of coins which is an unoffical mark as appposed to a counter-mark that is offical has many known reason, and a few unknown as well.
The common known reason's are advertising of their business.
Silver-smith's would put on their mark to show that a blank coin (no longer recognisable to the public as a coin) was in fact made of silver, which implies it still had trade value.
Homemade counter-stamps done for 'fun' or unknown reasons.
Unknown marks with no obivious reason.

Thank you, Cru.