Dump Field 2 & New Land hotspot........

[CRUSADER]

Dump Field 2 & New Land hotspot........

Started close to home on a 1920s dump. I was after Military WWI capbadges & buttons, we had many off here last year.

Every swing has 3 signals (rubbish mostly), but we cherry picked for nearly 2 hours. I only got 1 shoulder badge or lapel badge but at least its a new type 'MGC' (not sure what it stands for)

Then it was off in the car for a 45 min drive to the new land.

 

[CRUSADER]

New Land hotspot........

Spent nearly 3 hours in two different fields with nothing.

We had a tip off from the farmer on a field that was a roman industrial site, didn't really hold out much hope. As the Villa which he had previously talked about was a blank.

Dad & I entered the field, he flanked right & I was suppose to follow. No, not me I went left. We wondered for some time trying to find anything. Then I spotted a piece of Roman pottery, that was all I needed to start griding. Then bang up popped a Roman sestertius, 2 paces more & a scrappy. Within half an hour I had 6 coins. Dad was at the other end of the field (finding nothing), I waved around my machine (in the air) to get him over. Then we started griding more carefully & ended up with 27 roman coins in 3.5 hours. Our biggest 1 day total this year but in only 3.5 hours.

I got my best Copper 'AS' of Vespasian AD71.
Dad got a burnt debased roman silver
Roman brooch
Roman whatzits (1 of them I have seen before but can't remember what it is)

It was an exciting day but at one point we both thought we were on the wrong fields.

 

[ohannos]

Re: Dump Field 2 & New Land hotspot........

Great day and you saved the roman silvers and thimbles for the next trip Keep at it and you may break the 300 barrier for the year

 

[shaun7]

Re: Dump Field 2 & New Land hotspot........

i know ive said it before but "i 'ate you butler"

 

[tulecanyon]

Re: Dump Field 2 & New Land hotspot........

dang romans never got to arizona, i live on the wrong side of the ocean.

great finds sir.

 

[CRUSADER]

Re: Dump Field 2 & New Land hotspot........

i know ive said it before but "i 'ate you butler"

We were not far off giving up on this new land, hit several fields with hardly a sniff of lead. It was more to do with the 1.5 hours round trip which we found hard to justify when we could have spent that time on fields we know nearer.

The roman 'imitation' with the Deer is very unusual. It has the head of Tetrius II & a reverse type of Gallienius In our eyes its a really cool find, in some ways better than the £50 copper AS.

 

[wagbert]

Re: Dump Field 2 & New Land hotspot........

You certainly have a nice as there.

 

[shaun7]

Re: Dump Field 2 & New Land hotspot........

the bottom pic has a coin with a tower block on it (roman city banker?) that would explain why he lost it!

or is it scaffolding

 

[CRUSADER]

Re: Dump Field 2 & New Land hotspot........

the bottom pic has a coin with a tower block on it (roman city banker?) that would explain why he lost it!

or is it scaffolding

Its called a 'camp gate' reverse. Entrance to a roman fort. Its up-side down

 

[shaun7]

Re: Dump Field 2 & New Land hotspot........

the bottom pic has a coin with a tower block on it (roman city banker?) that would explain why he lost it!

or is it scaffolding

Its called a 'camp gate' reverse. Entrance to a roman fort. Its up-side down

like the gate on a one pence! ahh

 

[CRUSADER]

Re: Dump Field 2 & New Land hotspot........

the bottom pic has a coin with a tower block on it (roman city banker?) that would explain why he lost it!

or is it scaffolding

Its called a 'camp gate' reverse. Entrance to a roman fort. Its up-side down

like the gate on a one pence! ahh

Not really, as thats a portcullis. See below for better images:
http://www.beastcoins.com/Topical/Architecture/Campgate.htm

 

[shaun7]

Re: Dump Field 2 & New Land hotspot........

the bottom pic has a coin with a tower block on it (roman city banker?) that would explain why he lost it!

or is it scaffolding

Its called a 'camp gate' reverse. Entrance to a roman fort. Its up-side down

gotcha thanks! more like a gate house, i can see it now!



like the gate on a one pence! ahh

Not really, as thats a portcullis. See below for better images:
http://www.beastcoins.com/Topical/Architecture/Campgate.htm

 

[Yeasty]

Re: Dump Field 2 & New Land hotspot........

The MGC was a variant of the MGB sports car. It had a short run in the '60's

Pete

 

[CRUSADER]

Re: Dump Field 2 & New Land hotspot........

The MGC was a variant of the MGB sports car. It had a short run in the '60's

Pete

Thanks but its definately Military. Military Guard Corp? or...

 

[shaun7]

Re: Dump Field 2 & New Land hotspot........

The MGC was a variant of the MGB sports car. It had a short run in the '60's

Pete

 

[CRUSADER]

Re: Dump Field 2 & New Land hotspot........

Found it:

Machine Gun Corp.

 

[CRUSADER]

Re: Dump Field 2 & New Land hotspot........

Great day and you saved the roman silvers and thimbles for the next trip Keep at it and you may break the 300 barrier for the year

Yeah, I really need my first Roman silver before the year ends. Strange year for those, however I more than made it up for it with the Celtic Gold.

I am now confident we will break 300 8) (Famous last words)

 

[shaun7]

Re: Dump Field 2 & New Land hotspot........

Great day and you saved the roman silvers and thimbles for the next trip Keep at it and you may break the 300 barrier for the year

Yeah, I really need my first Roman silver before the year ends. Strange year for those, however I more than made it up for it with the Celtic Gold.

I am now confident we will break 300 8) (Famous last words)

not as confident as me breaking 1

 

[weasel606]

Re: Dump Field 2 & New Land hotspot........

awesome finds crusader ! congrats

 

[ohannos]

Re: Dump Field 2 & New Land hotspot........

And im confident you will get that roman silver after that bunch of bronzes in the weekend, maby today