Fan's Roman Site - Day 3 - Finished Strong - Nero, Roman Lead Seal etc...

[CRUSADER]

Another near T-shirt day!
I spent 7 hours gridding the last of Fan's Site & Cru'dad did 4 hours. I wasn't expecting to finish such a large area all today, sorry Land-Mag. We will plan something else tomorrow at the Metal Working Site.

Some really great finds today;

45 Roman Coins
2 Hob Nails
Broken Fibula
Iron Age (Celtic) Fibula
Celtic Toggle (my first near complete example)
Nero As (Rare find for us)
Trajan As
VERY RARE-Roman Lead Seal with the letters CCA PVP. These were often used by the Roman Military to seal their orders/letters but I will update later on this one!

 

[CRUSADER]

Interesting technique! Maybe that's my problem? I spend too much time being thorough!

Of course we miss stuff. But when you grid ever year, you get multiple chances to mop up.(Covering a large area is more important.)

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Congratualtions on the rare seal and multitude of coins!

 

[CRUSADER]

update:

The coin below the 2 big coins is a Constans 2 Soldier 2 Standard of a type that was an R4 in RIC at the time of publication. ie 2-4 known! Even with all the ones found since this still must be at least RARE. (bonus is that its in good nick!)

 

[VERMONTIS]

Every time you post is above and beyond!! ONE LIFE-DETECT IT

 

[CRUSADER]

THANKS ALL.

This site & the Metal working one is very special to us & because of a deep plough at the end of last year we have recorded over 450 coins & artefacts of note this year alone! A record for this field! Just goes to show that even after years of gridding these fields you can still improve.

 

[CRUSADER]

UPDATE;

It's not a full gone conclusion yet, but one expert is convinced that the Roman Lead Seal is indeed of a Military nature & that it was a solider call Publicus. Confusingly this was the same name given to public land owned by the State & the Cursus Publicus was the state postal system.

To me, I often thought the Roman Soldiers visited this Roman Metal Working Site (had plenty of military clues), but this clue points toward a Military Controlled Site & full-time guards/soldiers living there.

 

[Westfront]

UPDATE;
To me, I often thought the Roman Soldiers visited this Roman Metal Working Site (had plenty of military clues), but this clue points toward a Military Controlled Site & full-time guards/soldiers living there.

Happened towards the end of Roman occupation when times were uncertain. Whealty romans had their own guards and the land was protected by soldiers. The guards were often germanic warriors who served in the roman legions.

 

[CRUSADER]

Happened towards the end of Roman occupation when times were uncertain. Whealty romans had their own guards and the land was protected by soldiers. The guards were often germanic warriors who served in the roman legions.

Yeap.
But what is interesting is this site has evidence of being used for 400 years during the Roman period, & at least 100 years before that in the Iron Age. So to me the Iron Age workers continued a relationship with the invaders - immediately (which to me points towards a prior collaboration & co-operation/trade)

 

[Whatdayagot]

Awesome finds !!!

 

[Rubka888]

45 Roman coins in 7 hours? They must have been breeding over the centuries! That is crazy!

 

[huntsman53]

Interesting technique! Maybe that's my problem? I spend too much time being thorough!

Maybe practicing the "Bend and Snap" will help you retrieve finds much quicker!

 

[CRUSADER]

Maybe practicing the "Bend and Snap" will help you retrieve finds much quicker!

Yeap, that's our secret weapon against the down on your knees & pray with a pin-pointer technique.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

It always amazes me how some of the Roman coins you find stand up very well in the soil for 1800 years and yet the majority do not.

Dave

 

[CRUSADER]

It always amazes me how some of the Roman coins you find stand up very well in the soil for 1800 years and yet the majority do not.

Dave

Luck.
Soil conditions
Metal Quality
Plough damage
These bigger ones came up from deep last year, so have missed the plough for many years.