BEAN FIELD FINDS

[CRUSADER]

It was raining heavy in the morning & mid-afternoon so waited for a window of opportunity. I'm on my own this weekend so its leg power transport. There was now only 1 hour of light left so it was now or never. Wrapped up with the waterproofs & cycled against the wind & rain to the nearby field. I couldn't do the Dump Field 2 as the track was flooded & it was further away than the field that Dad got the 3 silver coins from yesterday.
This field we had done well on the bottom section but not tried else where. I gave myself the objective of not leaving until I found a Good find. Only I would know what the good find is (no list). The clay soil was so sticky I had 2.5" of soil on my boots. I had to stop every 10 minutes & knock the mud off the base of the coil & the spade. At no time did I wonder what the hell am I doing? I was focussed on finding & no way was I going to waist a whole day of my life without trying. It got dark with only a scrappy roman & a modern buckle in the pouch. I guess its time to night detect I thought. 1 hour into dark I felt what I knew to be a Medieval Jetton. Not quite good enough but nearly. By now I was thirst from dragging all that mud around, only I had forgot my water bottle in the race to leave. So time to stick my head in the air & caught some rain whilst detecting

2 Hours into dark & I felt (I have no light) what I was sure was a Roman Locking Pin to a lock mechanism (this is my third one). Sure enough when I got home as I considered it a good find it was as I thought. (bottom right of picture 3)

Also got a nice medieval finial to a ??
Broken section of a bronze Iron Age/Roman piece of whatzit
Lead Token
and bits.........

 

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[Colonial KirkPA]

A good day, indeed, mate! Why in the heck did you cycle to the site? You should have driven.

BDD...Kirk

 

[CRUSADER]

A good day, indeed, mate! Why in the heck did you cycle to the site? You should have driven.

BDD...Kirk

I want a car about as much as I want a mobile phone

 

[tymcmurray]

A good day, indeed, mate! Why in the heck did you cycle to the site? You should have driven.

BDD...Kirk

I want a car about as much as I want a mobile phone

Can you just sell a couple of those beautiful coins and buy a car?
Nice finds.

 

[CRUSADER]

A good day, indeed, mate! Why in the heck did you cycle to the site? You should have driven.

BDD...Kirk

I want a car about as much as I want a mobile phone

Can you just sell a couple of those beautiful coins and buy a car?
Nice finds.

I could buy several cars but I not interested, same as having a mobile.

 

[BuckleBoy]

Those two purchases result in the same end: Once you have one, you can't do without one. It sucks.

Congrats--and bravo to you for toughing out the weather, thirst, and mud.


-Buckleboy

 

[Derek752]

Good post Crusader !! I'm reading your post and relating to the mud and thirst and roughing it out !

Had the Man against nature image in my head ...Bear dropped in the Amazon and surviving untill he found habitation !

I'd be HAPPY with a scrappy Roman !!

Feeling a find in the dark to identify !

Gotta love it !!

HH !!

D.

 

[Thomas007]

Crusader

Lots of nice things for only a few hours of work... and digging in mud is work. What was the deepest thing you had to dig in the rain today?

HH

Sanat

 

[TN-Joe]

CRUSADER,
Man you chose your screen name wisely. You sure are on a crusaade to finding some awesome things.
I tip my hat to you.
Joe

 

[ridge_runner]

Awesome hunt, awesome finds.

Congrats,

RR

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Great post and finds! I use an LED miners lamp at night, works great and the batteries hold up well. HH, Mike

 

[CRUSADER]

Crusader

Lots of nice things for only a few hours of work... and digging in mud is work. What was the deepest thing you had to dig in the rain today?

HH

Sanat

A horse shoe at 12"

 

[CRUSADER]

Great post and finds! I use an LED miners lamp at night, works great and the batteries hold up well. HH, Mike

Mike i have one of those for night fishing. Only thing was in my mind before I left I was going to spend 1 hour, find something good & leave (no need for a light). However once I set myself a target not much can stop me.