Another Sceat !!!

[CRUSADER]

Dad & I did 4 hours gridding where we left off last Sunday & at the end of the first run I got another Sceat.

We also did 1 hour on 2 nearby fields & I got my 2nd hammered of the day - cut shortcross penny (bent).

Hammered - Ed IV Penny, Henry III shortcross
1 Roman Coin
2 Livery Buttons
17th C spoon bowl
Lead Soldier - might be 18th C? Looks very old!
Pieces of a Saxon Brooch (I think)
Medieval Sword fitting
1879 Sixpence
My first 'Queen Anne' 18th C Silver Cufflink

The sceat is a Series N, Type 41b however its just the copper core of a contemporary forgery, a good one at that! See how it would have been in silver:

UPDATE (from expert):
This is a base metal core of an imitation of Series N (Type 41b). Base metal imitations seem to constitute about 1-2 per cent of finds in the sceat coinage, so it perhaps not surprising that this is the first recorded by EMC in Series N, Type 41.

British Anglo-Saxon - Series N, Type 41b - Sceatta

 

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[creskol]

Outstanding hunt Crus .. You all tore it up! .. beautiful display of goodies!

 

[robfinds]

Nice sceat!!! , see you to find cats eyes cru,

 

[romeo-1]

Nice...easy to miss that I bet...so small!

 

[ironhorse]

I was going to say you were on a roll....

but then I thought, when are you not?

Excellent post once again, well done!

 

[CRUSADER]

Nice sceat!!! , see you to find cats eyes cru,

Ohhh, I thought they were some kind of old car or plane bulbs. Well, I do get them ever so often.

 

[CRUSADER]

I was going to say you were on a roll....

but then I thought, when are you not?

Excellent post once again, well done!

2 Sceats for 2 outings in a row is a roll in our books, we did have a bit of a slump until this field.

 

[creskol]

2 Sceats for 2 outings in a row is a roll

Does that make them Roller Sceats?

 

[Army of 1]

Crusader , you guys are treasure magnets , more awesome finds , congrats .. cheers Mick

 

[TNGUNS]

As usual......... incredible finds.

 

[jewelerguy]

super cool finds as always

 

[BuckleBoy]

Fantastic to get another one so soon! Bravo! And hoping that there is more to do on that field. I bet it will hold some more surprises.

Cheers,

Buck

 

[CASPER-2]

 

[Westfront]

Now it starts to be an interesting field! Two sceats in a row, one more possible Saxon item....wish you luck when you start gridding this field!

 

[pepperj]

Nice going on the Sceat, aren't the bronze one's harder to get than a silver? Mine you both are so frigging high on the want list as are so many other items.
The Queen Mary button is a very nice find and not that many are dug as well. Over all it was a smashing day of digging in my books, with the other hammered, along with the long silver handle looking item?

 

[CRUSADER]

Now it starts to be an interesting field! Two sceats in a row, one more possible Saxon item....wish you luck when you start gridding this field!

(we gridded 90% of the field last year)
This is only our 2nd year on this field & we already have 4 sceats, so it is indeed a very interesting field. Today will be our last chance until harvest.

 

[CRUSADER]

Nice going on the Sceat, aren't the bronze one's harder to get than a silver? Mine you both are so frigging high on the want list as are so many other items.
The Queen Mary button is a very nice find and not that many are dug as well. Over all it was a smashing day of digging in my books, with the other hammered, along with the long silver handle looking item?

Copper-alloy stycas are only minted in Northumbria. I'm 90% sure that all other Sceats are silver. Some are very debased but mine is clearly a copper-core forgery which in this condition would make it rarer than the real silver one it's copying. (not more valuable though)

At first I thought the silver hand was for a clock, but just having a bulbous fixing now makes me think compass.

 

[Hunthicks]

It never ceases to amaze me the quantity and quality you guys pull out on a pretty regular basis! Awesome

 

[CRUSADER]

It never ceases to amaze me the quantity and quality you guys pull out on a pretty regular basis! Awesome

Choice is our biggest distraction, about 600 fields. So where to concentrate our time is what makes or breaks us, so we do a pretty good job of following/recording all the variables like deep ploughing (only once in every 5 years, if lucky), crop rotation, site mapping etc..

 

[CRUSADER]

UPDATE (from expert):
This is a base metal core of an imitation of Series N (Type 41b). Base metal imitations seem to constitute about 1-2 per cent of finds in the sceat coinage, so it perhaps not surprising that this is the first recorded by EMC in Series N, Type 41.

Extremely rare!