CRUSADER
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This is a medieval field that has never been ploughed since the ridge & furrow. I wanted to return with my new custom settings & go over a better area thats been done by the XP GMP. I only spent 2 hours 15 minutes on my own but I really impressed with the Deus responses.
There isn't anything quite like digging items from where they have been tombed & cracking open that mud shell & seeing the item for the first time in hundreds of years. In some ways I enjoy this type of deep grass digging more than ploughed land.
The coppers were ringing out so loud & clear, you might have thought they were half can lids at 3 inches instead of 10 inches. I dug one halfpenny at 12" plus.
Funny enough my first banging hit was the 1696 Shilling at 8 inches. (hard to find period!)
17th C-18th C Pastry Jigger Wheel
18th C Spur piece
Tudor period buckles - I now know many of these spectacle types came off of Medieval leather boots, at least 4-5 ran up the side of each leg. I saw them at a living History Fair, & the more money you had the more buckles had.
1941 .303 Cartridge (WWII)
No.79 Spike from a Railway Line
18th C Blowhole Button
Interesting deep find - A piece of bronze with a rolled copper nail in it. These sheet metal nails are still unidentified (in terms of there use), so this is an important piece of evidence of at least one of the uses, although still not clear as to it's function.
There isn't anything quite like digging items from where they have been tombed & cracking open that mud shell & seeing the item for the first time in hundreds of years. In some ways I enjoy this type of deep grass digging more than ploughed land.
The coppers were ringing out so loud & clear, you might have thought they were half can lids at 3 inches instead of 10 inches. I dug one halfpenny at 12" plus.
Funny enough my first banging hit was the 1696 Shilling at 8 inches. (hard to find period!)
17th C-18th C Pastry Jigger Wheel
18th C Spur piece
Tudor period buckles - I now know many of these spectacle types came off of Medieval leather boots, at least 4-5 ran up the side of each leg. I saw them at a living History Fair, & the more money you had the more buckles had.
1941 .303 Cartridge (WWII)
No.79 Spike from a Railway Line
18th C Blowhole Button
Interesting deep find - A piece of bronze with a rolled copper nail in it. These sheet metal nails are still unidentified (in terms of there use), so this is an important piece of evidence of at least one of the uses, although still not clear as to it's function.
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