Exploring.

[CRUSADER]

Dad was busy, so I took an opportunity to try a field I've been meaning to do. Its a classic looking spot on a hill, not far from a Roman Road, & the Archies had it down as possible Roman, based on the cropmark below.
Land-Mag had spent the last two days field walking it & other nearby fields with near zero pottery results. However, it still seemed worthy of running a couple of detectors across it & thats what we did for 2.5 hours with the less than intersting result;

However, its one less to worry about!

 

[Westfront]

Cropmarks look a little odd.... Is the roman road marked in the upper right? Anyways, you gave it a try and you never know.

 

[CRUSADER]

Cropmarks look a little odd.... Is the roman road marked in the upper right? Anyways, you gave it a try and you never know.

No, thats just a square around the site. The road is not visible, but its towards the bottom of the picture.

 

[Westfront]

I just thought it was very close if it was the road.

 

[CRUSADER]

I just thought it was very close if it was the road.

Our thoughts are, thats its pre-Roman, as the road goes though the site on a different alignment.

 

[Tnmountains]

That is wild with the crop marks. Do you often see these on your sites? I would have been excited just seeing that. I often search for charcoal or darker areas in ploughed fields for ancient habitation. Maybe the finds are deeper than what the detector will do?

 

[Bill D. (VA)]

You know the drill Cru. Check 'em out and then cross off the list and move on. At least you didn't get totally skunked.

 

[CRUSADER]

That is wild with the crop marks. Do you often see these on your sites? I would have been excited just seeing that. I often search for charcoal or darker areas in ploughed fields for ancient habitation. Maybe the finds are deeper than what the detector will do?

I find most of my sites this way, but not all.

Darker soil on different timelines is another good sign I look out for. The finds are not deeper as its on a hill, slope & ploughed; no pottery, no lead, no nails, no coins=no site from the late Iron Age onwards.

 

[CRUSADER]

You know the drill Cru. Check 'em out and then cross off the list and move on. At least you didn't get totally skunked.

Yeap, its a '?' resolved.