Cru'Team's 2017 Results - We are still improving...

[CRUSADER]

Firstly our usual thanks to Land-Mag for his continued support (& of course Cru'dad for his hundreds of hours spend researching & recording).

As Cru'Dad keeps very detailed stats it's very easy to break down the year however you like; by month, by field, by type of find etc...
This year was one of our lowest years in terms of hours spend detecting. I only did 100 days compared to 118 last year & our combined totals was as follows;
Cru'dad; 401.75 Me; 434.50 Combined; 836.25 hrs
We normally do in excess of 1000 hours however this year we had our best finds per hour ratio which really proves we are on our game, spending the hours wisely in the right places. Not easy. First year we have had more Roman Bronze Coins than Buttons!
Part of our success is finding new Sites & this year we found 3 new Roman Sites, not great ones but it does add new unknown (Archaeologically speaking) sites to our map which now has just over 40 Roman Sites.

This table is just a tiny fraction of the data Cru'dad has GPSed:
[TABLE="width: 655"]
[TR]
[TD]Coin/Artefact Type[/TD]
[TD]2011[/TD]
[TD]2012[/TD]
[TD]2013[/TD]
[TD]2014[/TD]
[TD]2015[/TD]
[TD]2016[/TD]
[TD]2017[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Celtic Bronze[/TD]
[TD]5[/TD]
[TD]3[/TD]
[TD]3[/TD]
[TD]3[/TD]
[TD]4[/TD]
[TD]6[/TD]
[TD]9[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Celtic Silver[/TD]
[TD]3[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD]5[/TD]
[TD]2[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Celtic Gold[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
[TD]3[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
[TD]2[/TD]
[TD]3[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
[TD]1[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Roman Bronze[/TD]
[TD]1386[/TD]
[TD]785[/TD]
[TD]879[/TD]
[TD]1460[/TD]
[TD]842[/TD]
[TD]1231[/TD]
[TD]1174[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Roman Silver[/TD]
[TD]20[/TD]
[TD]19[/TD]
[TD]21[/TD]
[TD]26[/TD]
[TD]27[/TD]
[TD]31[/TD]
[TD]27[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Saxon Bronze[/TD]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Saxon Sceat[/TD]
[TD]3[/TD]
[TD]3[/TD]
[TD]4[/TD]
[TD]2[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
[TD]6[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Saxon/Viking Silver[/TD]
[TD]2[/TD]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD]2[/TD]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
[TD]1[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Other Gold coins[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD]2[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD]2[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Hammered[/TD]
[TD]101[/TD]
[TD]65[/TD]
[TD]49[/TD]
[TD]66[/TD]
[TD]52[/TD]
[TD]64[/TD]
[TD]28[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Buttons[/TD]
[TD]2635[/TD]
[TD]2069[/TD]
[TD]1357[/TD]
[TD]1557[/TD]
[TD]1255[/TD]
[TD]1277[/TD]
[TD]884[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
Overall it was a very bad year for hammered silver coins & the buttons were low however;
Best ever year for Saxon Sceats
Best ever year for Celtic Bronze Coins
Solid result in Roman Bronze & Silver Coins

Highlights included;
TREASURE: High Status Silver Gilt Pilgrims Badge of St George & the Dragon (in the mist of being acquired by the local Museum)
TREASURE: Complete Roman Silver Ring (in the mist of being returned & disclaimed by the British Museum)
New Emperor to the collection - Silver Siliqua of Flavius Victor
First complete Penny of Edward the Confessor (very rare)
A 2 Sceat day by me this Dec
Cru'dad's stunning Celtic Gold Stater

 

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[TomW244]

Nothing less than stunning!

 

[dts52]

Simply amazing. Well done!
HH
dts

 

[Relicific]

The Roman Silver Ring,the Gold stater and the Sceats
are my favourite.
Excellent year
Congrats

 

[thrifty76now]

All those years add up to some amazing finds.I wish I could hunt with you all.

 

[Aureus]

Amazing year! Congratulations and I wish you the best success in 2018!

 

[G.A.P.metal]

Cru ,your team/Cru Dad... could supply a museum Very Nice .
Have a Good New Year Cheers !
Gary

 

[Ahab8]

That Celtic gold stater is simply amazing! I’ve enjoyed seeing all of your and Crudads killer recoveries in 2017. I often don’t comment because I sound like a broken record as the finds are consistently top notch. But I am certainly always watching. Great job guys

 

[HenryWaltonJonesJr]

Thanks for your all posts and sharing your finds with us!

 

[Jeff H]

Another great year of interesting posts from the Cru Team. Cru Dad has some obvious organizational skills. Can he be rented by the hour ?

 

[The Patriot]

amazing finds once again this year...

 

[Ken C]

Looks like you had a great year, congrats!

 

[CRUSADER]

Another great year of interesting posts from the Cru Team. Cru Dad has some obvious organizational skills. Can he be rented by the hour ?

Funny thing is we have had a few land-owners ask how much we charge for our services...lol One we refused who was keen to offer us money for the maps we produced.

 

[Argentium]

Another incredible year ! I can barely wait to see what lies beneath your search coils in 2018 !!

 

[Benjamin52]

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[cudamark]

Nice finds! Were you using the same detectors all those years? If so, or not, which machines were you using and which one(s) found the good stuff?

 

[Scrappy]

That nice complete ring is a good one. Seems like for ever intact Roman ring on here there’s a hundred fragments and bezels.

It was a great year for you and cru’dad. Quite incredible treasure unearthed.

 

[ramjet2187]

Nothing less than stunning!

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[CRUSADER]

Nice finds! Were you using the same detectors all those years? If so, or not, which machines were you using and which one(s) found the good stuff?

All the years quoted I've used an XP. Started on the Goldmaxx Power & about 2 years ago swapped to the Deus. Cru'Dad is still using my old, old machine - Cortes. (the one before the XP)
Roughly speaking the XP finds about 70% of all our finds, however, once in awhile Cru'Dad gets an amazing show stopper.