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[CRUSADER]

This is from the Barley Stubble Field Dad & I gained permission for this year. We knew it had been Night Hawked for 15 years+ but decided it was our turn to pile on the pressure

This does not include the 100s of plain buttons, blank coins, odd bits, & broken buckle pieces.

About 15 trips to cover 11 acres of land. (about 100 man hours effort)

This has been a great stop gap, as none of our good land has been harvested yet (due to heavy rain).

Went back to my old camera

 

[CRUSADER]

few more bits...

 

[Bunker]

Cru, what can I say....You are THE MAN!!
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[CRUSADER]

Cru, what can I say....You are THE MAN!!
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Remember, my wingman (Cru'dad) helps a little

 

[Bunker]

My hat is off to CruDad as well!
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[lennon631]

My My...Bravo! Wish I knew more about your coinage, but each and every one is just awesome. That hand hammered piece in photo JPG 13 second row has a story to tell. At first I thought it looked like the Lochness Monster, but I believe it's a landscape scene of mountains, once I recognized the snow peak. Very impressive hunt indeed sir.

 

[CRUSADER]

My My...Bravo! Wish I knew more about your coinage, but each and every one is just awesome. That hand hammered piece in photo JPG 13 second row has a story to tell. At first I thought it looked like the Lochness Monster, but I believe it's a landscape scene of mountains, once I recognized the snow peak. Very impressive hunt indeed sir.

You were right first time its a Sea Monster on a 13-14th Century Buckle Plate. Must admit, the first one I found years ago I thought was a mountain scene.

 

[lennon631]

My My...Bravo! Wish I knew more about your coinage, but each and every one is just awesome. That hand hammered piece in photo JPG 13 second row has a story to tell. At first I thought it looked like the Lochness Monster, but I believe it's a landscape scene of mountains, once I recognized the snow peak. Very impressive hunt indeed sir.

You were right first time its a Sea Monster on a 13-14th Century Buckle Plate. Must admit, the first one I found years ago I thought was a mountain scene.

No kidding! That is interesting...makes you wonder, did the artist make that from something he/she saw, or from mythology? Hmmmmmmm? Just great stuff...GREAT!

 

[civilman1]

All that in one field!!!....I know that 11 acres isn't much but Holy $hot what a haul.Why so many find's in this one field for you and CruDaddy?

 

[CRUSADER]

All that in one field!!!....I know that 11 acres isn't much but Holy $hot what a haul.Why so many find's in this one field for you and CruDaddy?

Simple, its always been a field (farmed since the Iron Age). The opposite of what you look for in the US, this has no sites on it, & about 1/2 mile from the nearest houses.

Plus not far from a Medieval Fair Site.

 

[celtex]

Not your best field! OMG let me hunt you better fields! WOW!

 

[TooManyHobbies]

So not fair. You guys find more ancient coins in a day than the rest of us could hope for in a lifetime. Still love to see what your digging though.

 

[CRUSADER]

Not your best field! OMG let me hunt you better fields! WOW!

It wasn't on our target list, as we got permission by chance & because there was little other choices around. We covered it all & spent a good amount of time on it, because it was our best field option at this point. Our target land will be good but will not have as much time spread/span as this one. We are hoping for Celtic this year but hitting Roman settlements which had there beginnings in the Iron Age, I call these transitional sites & for me they are the most exciting (other than Saxon/Viking which we have very little of).

Roll on the harvest

 

[pepperj]

Great selection of finds from that field, amazing what can come up year after year . It's going to be very interesting to see what the fall season will turn up.

 

[Skelly607]

Well done! Very nice collection!

 

[jdsarasin8194]

 

[Tennessee Treasure Hunter]

Awesome finds Congratulations
TTH

 

[tuatara]

1 field total = 1 museum

 

[Des from down under]

MY WIFE SAID I LOOK WHITE...SHES RIGHT I AM...WHAT A HOARD YOU AN DAD NAILED...GO HAVE A PINT OF SPECKLED HEN..ON ME .LOL...C/YA DES

 

[CRUSADER]

Thanks everyone

We gained permission for this field after helping the farmer that rented it find a combine part he had lost. He then passed on the name & address of the owner, we popped straight over & the guy said yes immediately

Dad & I have always maintained a whiter than white approach with every owner, if we find it, they see it. Simple & honest pays everytime, if them dumb hawkers had done the same 15 years ago we might have had nothing little left to find & a bunch of "No's" from most of the farmers, who would already have a trusted detectorist. (most of our farms are exclusively ours & not because we choose it that way, its just the farmers preference). Good news travels fast in the farming community

So a good deed got us a good field at the perfect time

When I met the owner, I said I will look forward to bringing around the box of goodies from his land. He laughed at me & said 'a box hey' (I'm more confident than Dad who thought we might get a few things, well I kept him busy with the plots & maps - about 250 GPSed items).