Day 4 - Hill Top Field.....

[CRUSADER]

Rest day for me, Cru'Dad spent 2 hours on the field.

3 Roman coins takes the total for the year's to a nice round 250.

1 more days effort to finish the area (probably Sunday)

Tomorrow, we will take a punt on new land.

 

[shaun7]

the middle roman looks familiar! or the hat does looks silverish too!

 

[CRUSADER]

the middle roman looks familiar! or the hat does looks silverish too!

Its a silver plated Antoninanus

 

[woody50]

Don't know how you do it, stay home when Cru'dad goes hunting. I could never do that, would be itching to find something too. Or are you resting your arm/back....?

 

[PANNONIAN]

Nice finds! The Antoninus looks Probus to me. Go and get the next one tomorrow! Congrats Pannonian

 

[RandyNorthridgeCa]

WOW! 250 Romans in a year. Looks like you've been having lots of fun. Nice finds!

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Nice finds by Crudad and yourself from the previous posts! Take care of the arm dude, I went through some serious agony with mine and it is not 100%. The Autumn harvest season is opening hardcore and I have several areas I have been detecting and waiting for a few more fields. HH, Mike

 

[BuckleBoy]

Crusader,

You and I are similar hunters--gridding off an area to make sure we get all of the good finds there. When you hunt lots of area, you have to grid it off. Many detectorists don't realize this. Otherwise, the though of what you missed will give you cold sweats at night!

Some of it is slow, but that's the way it goes. You've had some Incredible finds here recently. Now you're doing your penance.



Keep it up.



-Buckleboy

 

[woody50]

Crusader,

You and I are similar hunters--gridding off an area to make sure we get all of the good finds there. When you hunt lots of area, you have to grid it off. Many detectorists don't realize this. Otherwise, the though of what you missed will give you cold sweats at night!

Some of it is slow, but that's the way it goes. You've had some Incredible finds here recently. Now you're doing your penance.
Keep it up.
-Buckleboy

I agree with gridding off an area if you have the time, and the field has delivered some nice finds. I usually don't have the time to grid it off, but if I can see my footsteps (rolled ground) then walking first north-south, then east-west and then again on a diagonal to the footsteps works good for me. I guess this is the poor man's gridding.
I usually do this for every field, again 1) if I have the time 2) I have found something good or interesting.

If there are good finds and I have the time I have gridded off a few fields (small ones). First run n-s say 40 finds, e-w run then about 15 finds, and diagonally about 5. Just an estimate.

 

[BuckleBoy]

Crusader,

You and I are similar hunters--gridding off an area to make sure we get all of the good finds there.  When you hunt lots of area, you have to grid it off.  Many detectorists don't realize this.  Otherwise, the though of what you missed will give you cold sweats at night! 

Some of it is slow, but that's the way it goes.  You've had some Incredible finds here recently.  Now you're doing your penance.
Keep it up.
-Buckleboy

I agree with gridding off an area if you have the time, and the field has delivered some nice finds.  I usually don't have the time to grid it off, but if I can see my footsteps (rolled ground) then walking first north-south, then east-west and then again on a diagonal to the footsteps works good for me.  I guess this is the poor man's gridding. 
I usually do this for every field, again 1) if I have the time 2) I have found something good or interesting.

If there are good finds and I have the time I have gridded off a few fields (small ones).  First run n-s say 40 finds, e-w run then about 15 finds, and diagonally about 5.  Just an estimate.

I grid in only two directions--but targets are bigger here, on average, than there (fewer tiny coins and cut coins to be found here)--and also it seems that goodies here get plowed to the top, while anything large ends up at the bottom of the plow zone. Usually seems that N/S and E/W are adequate. I have VERY few returns on another pass, or diagonal pass. Most of the time I come away empty handed at that point.


-Buckles

 

[Dman]

the middle roman looks familiar! or the hat does looks silverish too!

Its a silver plated Antoninanus

I have learned something. I didn't know the Romans silver plated coins.
Dman

 

[crazyjarhead]

Crusader,

You and I are similar hunters--gridding off an area to make sure we get all of the good finds there. When you hunt lots of area, you have to grid it off. Many detectorists don't realize this. Otherwise, the though of what you missed will give you cold sweats at night!

Some of it is slow, but that's the way it goes. You've had some Incredible finds here recently. Now you're doing your penance.



Keep it up.



-Buckleboy

I gridded off an area this summer because of the size and pulled that nice LC that I had missed before.

 

[Colonial Copper Zeus]

You seem to be a very consistent productive detectorist. Keep up the good work on that side of the pond
Chris

 

[CRUSADER]

the middle roman looks familiar! or the hat does looks silverish too!

Its a silver plated Antoninanus

I have learned something. I didn't know the Romans silver plated coins.
Dman

The technical term is silver 'wash'. This were in the later years when they were running low on silver.