The Track-way Site - Day 3...

[CRUSADER]

The snow has melted & the ground was sticky but not super sticky plus the temperature was much better at just above freezing. Therefore, it was time to grid-on for just over 5 hours. Once again we did twice as well as we expected at this low yield site.

9 Roman Coins (3 holed in the Saxon period)
Lion Button
1816 Royal Navy Button
1836 Four pence
Victorian token/toy money
Lead token with sun-face on it.
1st C AD Brooch (First of its type for the collection - 'Langton Down variant' )
1 5th C AD Saxon Cruciform Long Brooch (early new type for us!)
1 Saxon Brooch yet to be IDed, not in the book, I think it will turn of 5th C though!

 

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[Stef45]

Awesome finds as always!

 

[Calabash Digger]

wow! you killed it!

 

[ohiowhiteguy]

sweet finds, nothing like that here in ohio. if it's out there i hope i find it..

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Another killer hunt!

 

[Aureus]

Awesome finds man. Love those buttons and relics.

 

[pepperj]

Great looking brooches and relics, low yield field turns out to be pretty nice indeed. Congrats.

 

[CRUSADER]

Great looking brooches and relics, low yield field turns out to be pretty nice indeed. Congrats.

Yeap for this time of year its great.

 

[Peyton Manning]

dude, if I EVER get to england I'm gonna get me some cold beer and just follow you through the fields!!
I bet you got some fantastic stories and I love accents. ( do you know karl pilkington?)

 

[Argentium]

Good stuff Cru ! I am always intrigued with holed ancient coins , Nice on the William IV four pence !

 

[scruggs]

Your sites are just full of history! If those coins and artifacts could only talk what a story it would be! Your a lucky man.

 

[CRUSADER]

dude, if I EVER get to england I'm gonna get me some cold beer and just follow you through the fields!!
I bet you got some fantastic stories and I love accents. ( do you know karl pilkington?)

Personally? Nope, but I've seen a couple of his shows.
& your right I'm full of stories not just detecting ones either, must be a little of the Irish in me....

 

[CRUSADER]

Your sites are just full of history! If those coins and artifacts could only talk what a story it would be! Your a lucky man.

Its like anything its only as good as the location & although this is a large (10 acre++) early Saxon Site we are lucky that it started to be re-used again in the Georgian period until about 1900 when that disappeared into the farmland. So there is plenty of interest, without that it would be a tough call to just find 1 Saxon brooch every 10 man hours (If lucky). Finding as much as we do means spending every hour in the right places at the right time & if we were not getting at least 1 recordable item an hour, it would be time to rethink & move.(part of why we are so successful)

 

[Relicific]

That site has been productive,
Maybe your do for a nice old gold coin.

 

[Iron Patch]

Can't imagine what your piles must be like now. It was over a decade ago you sent me the pics of your buttons!

 

[CRUSADER]

Can't imagine what your piles must be like now. It was over a decade ago you sent me the pics of your buttons!

Yes, its somewhat grown!

 

[Scrappy]

Very nice. Love the brooches and the early bell frag.

 

[vince76]

A lot of ugly Roman coins
Great job mate!

 

[Westfront]

Great finds on that site again! Didn't you had that bad rain after the snow like we had? Fields are flooded...

 

[CRUSADER]

Great finds on that site again! Didn't you had that bad rain after the snow like we had? Fields are flooded...

We had some rain which washed the snow away, but we had a day for it to drain, & being on the high ground helped.