Back from England

[cudamark]

Had a decent trip. Weather was the best I've encountered on any of my hunts there. No rain and only one day of wind. Apparently, that isn't good for target detection though. Lots of the fields were freshly plowed and rolled which is great for walking and recoveries, but, without moisture, the fields were fairly quiet, and the small stuff was just not talking. Still, I found 40 "greenies" and eleven silver, so, can't complain. Just two hammered silver like all my hunting buddies, but, 6 milled silver coins including a 1797 Spanish1/2 reale bent into a love token. That was pretty cool IMO. A small sliver of some sort of silver jewelry, a cuff link, and the sterling spoon round out the silver finds. Anyone know what the hall marks signify? I found kind of a cool badge too. Hat badge? Says "The Essex Reg't" on the bottom, and Egypt on the top. Sorry about the poor photos, lighting wasn't the best there. Anyone know the history of that badge? Found all sorts of "bits and bobs" too of course. I'll post more later if anyone wants to see them. Lots of buttons, musket balls, lead seals, pipe stems, etc..... We had four gold finds in our group, but, alas, none were found by me. Two of them were pretty remarkable though. A buddy who went there with me back in 2019 found the end of a 1300 BC gold waist torc. Find of the year over there then This year, in my group on the same field, two of my buddies found more of that torc. Worth thousands of pound/dollars each. Probably more out there, so, maybe next year we find the rest. If you want better photos of anything, you'll have to wait a year until I pick them up next trip!

 

[Silvermonkey]

Wow. That sure looks like an amazing trip. Would you be willing to share the name of the outfitter you have been using? Seems like they know how to put you on productive ground. Congratulations on all those stellar finds!!!

 

[Brown owl]

Had a decent trip. Weather was the best I've encountered on any of my hunts there. No rain and only one day of wind. Apparently, that isn't good for target detection though. Lots of the fields were freshly plowed and rolled which is great for walking and recoveries, but, without moisture, the fields were fairly quiet, and the small stuff was just not talking. Still, I found 40 "greenies" and eleven silver, so, can't complain. Just two hammered silver like all my hunting buddies, but, 6 milled silver coins including a 1797 Spanish1/2 reale bent into a love token. That was pretty cool IMO. A small sliver of some sort of silver jewelry, a cuff link, and the sterling spoon round out the silver finds. Anyone know what the hall marks signify? I found kind of a cool badge too. Hat badge? Says "The Essex Reg't" on the bottom, and Egypt on the top. Sorry about the poor photos, lighting wasn't the best there. Anyone know the history of that badge? Found all sorts of "bits and bobs" too of course. I'll post more later if anyone wants to see them. Lots of buttons, musket balls, lead seals, pipe stems, etc..... We had four gold finds in our group, but, alas, none were found by me. Two of them were pretty remarkable though. A buddy who went there with me back in 2019 found the end of a 1300 BC gold waist torc. Find of the year over there then This year, in my group on the same field, two of my buddies found more of that torc. Worth thousands of pound/dollars each. Probably more out there, so, maybe next year we find the rest. If you want better photos of anything, you'll have to wait a year until I pick them up next trip!

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Super finds🤩