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Dad & I were debating where to try for a couple of hours. I decided we would try a field which I had tried to detect but it was too rough. On my wonder back to the flatter field I had found an eyes only 1719 dump halfpenny. A rare find even with the detector. I thought this field may yeild older finds.
It was now flat enough to do & I started about 10 runs off the edge of the field & asked Dad to try about 3 runs off the edge. I started with a pistol shot, then a lead token & towards the corner on the very edge of my right hand swing (nearly missed it) out popped a cica 1000BC Bronze Age Axe Tip
My oldest find by 1000 years. Dad had our first Bronze Age axehead (complete) only this year. Now 2 in a year when we have had no others in all the years we have detected. 
We searched the area around it without anything else.
Sometimes they ritually broke the axes (this is an old break), but maybe broken in the wood & lost. Might be another burial as its on the hill??
Dad got 1 scrappy Roman Coin & a medieval cloth seal.
It was now flat enough to do & I started about 10 runs off the edge of the field & asked Dad to try about 3 runs off the edge. I started with a pistol shot, then a lead token & towards the corner on the very edge of my right hand swing (nearly missed it) out popped a cica 1000BC Bronze Age Axe Tip
My oldest find by 1000 years. Dad had our first Bronze Age axehead (complete) only this year. Now 2 in a year when we have had no others in all the years we have detected. We searched the area around it without anything else.
Sometimes they ritually broke the axes (this is an old break), but maybe broken in the wood & lost. Might be another burial as its on the hill??
Dad got 1 scrappy Roman Coin & a medieval cloth seal.
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