Day 5 - R*pe Field......1667 PUB TOKEN! - UPDATED

[CRUSADER]

Dad went and did a short hunt without me today. He done very well!

A very rare 1667 1/2 penny token, so rare the book has no price indication as none have been recorded sold & you won't find it on the internet.

Its a token of Francis Seagre of the Royal Oak Pub (1667) in Woburn, Buckinghamshire.

Plus most of a late 15th century purse bar, a new type for us with nice primitive zoomorphic heads.

A scrappy & bag seal.

UPDATED;

Email from a friend (researcher & keen collector, soon to publish a book);

Excellent find – it was Woburn in Beds in the 17th century (W107) – definitely rare.
The pub is still there.
I don’t have one – if he ever wants to part with it, happy to hear

 

[CRUSADER]

Re: Day 5 - R*pe Field......1667 PUB TOKEN!

Wait a minute, first this one, now the possibility of Romans or gold coins, too? I'd have to make a bid on that piece of ground and then take everything down about thirty feet and run my coil over everything bigger than a quarter of an inch. That's just amazing. Can you give some history of the site without compromising it's location? Don't want to go off-topic here, but I've been following the unbelievable finds you've been making and was wondering about the laws there. From what I've read, everything over three hundred years old there has to be turned over to a museum and then they decide if they want it or if you can have it. Now this is only from the few articles I've been able to find about your country, but is it different for someone who lives there vs a tourist on a guided hunt? Only curious on that aspect of it, but look forward to your upcoming posts.

I'm not expecting much from the couple of fields we are trying to finish off at the moment. But in a week or two when the main harvest is in. We will have some better sites with plenty of roman finds & medieval. These sites have been farm fields for hundreds of years & have had all the lost stuff dumped there in the manure etc..

The Law covers objects more than 300 years old with 10% gold or silver content excluding single gold or silver coins. I have to hand them in within 14 days & I get the market value or the object back.

Tourist can detect here but can't take dug items over 50 years old out of the country without an export licience which takes 3 weeks to get.

 

[AZ-Mtnman]

Re: Day 5 - R*pe Field......1667 PUB TOKEN!

Thanks for the clarification on the laws, always seemed muddy to me. I guess for the next month or so I'll be waiting here with bated breath to see what you found. I wish you guys a "second in a lifetime" find. That being said, I'd still have to push for the banner on this one, that will be hard to beat.

 

[ukeden]

what a great find the token desrves the banner well done

ps any chance of a close up picture please

 

[Detectingfreak]

Very aweseome job on the pub token!!!!

 

[Nana40]

OH WoW! What a find! Tell your Dad, MANY congrats on a fantastic find!!!!!! 8)

Nana

 

[TimC (North Alabama)]

Awesome just don't seem to do it justice.