Roman/Saxon Site - Day 3 - Finished...

[CRUSADER]

The semi frozen ground helped a little at the beginning as it was somewhat less sticky so we gridded for the full 5 hours to complete the site. This site is spread over 10 acres+ & we gridded all of it in only 3 days, so it shows how little is left, as it use to take 8-10 days.
We did continue to clear lots of iron pieces including nails to get rid of them. We will not need to return to this site until they do a deep plough. (Could be years away)

Broken Medieval 14th C Buckle
9 Roman Coins (our target was 10)
Best find - 5th C AD Saxon Cruciform Brooch (The earliest type of Saxon Brooch to turn up with the Saxon Migrants.)

 

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[Ken C]

Love the history! Congrats!

I'll be over in the UK in 3 weeks, can't wait!

 

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I hope within the next couple years to be able to detect somewhere in Europe. Nice finds Cru

 

[washingtonian]

Cru'dad sets yearly goals for all the main categories this is this years goals;
(they are based on past performance/stats)

2018 Targets:

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Celtic:

Gold Coins 1
Silver Coins 1
Bronze Coins 3
Artefact 15​

Roman:

Gold Coins 0
Silver Coins 20
Bronze Coins 1000
Artefact 130

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Saxon/Viking:

Gold Coins 0
Silver Coins 1
Bronze Coins 0
Artefact 20

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Hammered:

Gold Coins 0
Silver Coins 50

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Lead Token: 20

C17th Token: 10

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Farthing: 20

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Georgian:

Gold coins 1
Silver coins 14

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Victorian:

Gold 1
Silver 16​

That is cool and interesting. I like how you break it down into those different sections and have goals for each. That probably keeps the variety up.

History only goes back to the mid-1800s where I live and there weren't many folks here until the early 1900s so most of my goals are purely based on silver totals. I think in future years I might do something more like what you've done.

Something like...

Seated:
-3

Barber:
-5

SLQ:
-3

Etc.

Thanks for sharing!!

 

[CRUSADER]

Seems the hammered goal will be a bit hard

Yes, because although 1 year when I first got the XP it shot over 100, we have very few good sites for medieval finds. In fact we lost one of our best sites that had a medieval fair on it, so that hit us hard as well.

 

[CRUSADER]

That is cool and interesting. I like how you break it down into those different sections and have goals for each. That probably keeps the variety up.

History only goes back to the mid-1800s where I live and there weren't many folks here until the early 1900s so most of my goals are purely based on silver totals. I think in future years I might do something more like what you've done.

Something like...

Seated:
-3

Barber:
-5

SLQ:
-3

Etc.

Thanks for sharing!!

Yes, & don't forget your wish list?
My top 5 wish list is not part of the targets as they are kind of mission impossible type finds but once in awhile our dreams come true if you try hard enough.