Ditch Hunting...

[CRUSADER]

Firstly Cru'dad yesterday had a couple of hours solo hunting in a failed oil-seed rape area & managed 2 Roman Nails, 1 scrappy & a knife thingy.

It pays to keep an eye on whats going on around your farms. Land-mag pointed out something I already knew, which was that one of our good farms has had some brush/tree clearance with some ditches being re-profiled.
It was only 1 ditch we were interested in, the one between a wooded area where we had had some Roman stuff & the ploughed field where the main site was. In just over 1 hour doing the spoil & the edge of the ditch I had 7 Roman Coins. Most off them from the ditch cut, especially where ancient ditches perpendicular to the new one joined.

The knife thingy I have no idea, the farmer thought a root cutter? I thought 18th C butchers knife??

 

[Brendan75]

Hi. Nice finds you found there, i just love those old roman coins you found.

 

[Rookster]

Great finds. About all we have in our ditches are Styrofoam cups and Bud Lite cans.

 

[arrow86]

Nice finds the Roman coins are awesome I don’t anything about them is there a way to tell how old they are ..... approximately anyways ?

 

[RudyT]

Very nice! You give a new meaning to ditch digger!! Lol

 

[dirtlooter]

wish we had some ditches like those over here. you did a great job at thinking outside the box.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Congratualtions on another productive hunt!

 

[Westfront]

Sometimes a ditch can bring up nice things...
Not really an idea on the knife thingy. We had a mix between knife and cleaver here, used for chopping bushes and willow trees. Not as broad as a cleaver but with a thick strong back. Looks quite similar other than the rounded tip. I have found one when i bought this house and restored it. I'll make a pic later.

Here's a pic. These were used for several centuries by the basket makers around.

 

[Overseas]

One coin is particularly interesting to me...bottom coin 2nd to the right.

 

[Scrappy]

The knife if an interesting find. I’d tend to think knife over root cutter for the fact that the shank and the blade’s top edge are continuous. Many cutters and saws had the shank inset from the blade

 

[Scrappy]

Sometimes a ditch can bring up nice things...
Not really an idea on the knife thingy. We had a mix between knife and cleaver here, used for chopping bushes and willow trees. Not as broad as a cleaver but with a thick strong back. Looks quite similar other than the rounded tip. I have found one when i bought this house and restored it. I'll make a pic later.

Here's a pic. These were used for several centuries by the basket makers around.

Haha you added that right when I was writing. Perfect example!

This is what I was getting at with my post. Cutter/saws

 

[thrifty76now]

Those coins and items you post are always interesting to view,

 

[ivobg]

What's the second coin from the second line ?

 

[pepperj]

Nice going on the ditch hunt, thinking out of the box.
Some of those ditches are nasty with nettles and prickly things.

 

[Overseas]

What's the second coin from the second line ?

I do not know, but I will refer back to a couple of ideas from the current cable show I am addicted to:
What could it be...a templar cross or the Ark of the Covenant?

 

[ivobg]

I do not know, but I will refer back to a couple of ideas from the current cable show I am addicted to:
What could it be...a templar cross or the Ark of the Covenant?

Wasn't that from The curse of Oak island on History Channel

 

[CRUSADER]

Nice finds the Roman coins are awesome I don’t anything about them is there a way to tell how old they are ..... approximately anyways ?

No approx age needed Cru'dad could ID most of the Emperors. All 3rd & 4th C AD.

 

[CRUSADER]

I do not know, but I will refer back to a couple of ideas from the current cable show I am addicted to:
What could it be...a templar cross or the Ark of the Covenant?

Its Claudius Gothicus with a Alter reverse.
Similar;
https://www.beastcoins.com/RomanImperial/V-I/ClaudiusII/Z3225.jpg

 

[Overseas]

Its Claudius Gothicus with a Alter reverse.
Similar;
https://www.beastcoins.com/RomanImperial/V-I/ClaudiusII/Z3225.jpg

So you think these two are the same, but just from different years/mints?

 

[Overseas]

Got me looking now and both look similsr to this one from him

https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/ma...s_198_antoninianus__altar/676686/Default.aspx

CRUSADER, I am impressed at how quickly you pegged it...you rock!!!