Field of 500 - Day 4... (+ short CruDad Hunt)

CRUSADER · Sep 21, 2011

Field of 500 - Day 4... (+ short Cru'Dad Hunt)

Picture 1 is Cru'Dad's short 2.5hrs on a 'hunted out' Roman Site, shows we still need a little more work on this one, as it turned up quite a large coin we need :icon_thumright:

Dad & I spent 6 hours (12 man hours) on the 'Field of 500' carrying on from where Shuan7 & I left off. It was Dad's turn to get the Roman Silver Denarius of Caracalla AD210. :hello2:

I got the fairly nice Sestertius of Faustina Junior AD161

Total of 54 Roman Bronze Coins :thumbsup:

Hunts Button with Birds
1948 Two Shilling (Florin)
Bits...
Box/Furniture Roman Bronze Mount of a bearded God?

shaun7 · Sep 21, 2011

Re: Field of 500 - Day 4... (+ short Cru'Dad Hunt)

Just how near where I finished was that silver....you can tell me :'(

CRUSADER · Sep 21, 2011

Re: Field of 500 - Day 4... (+ short Cru'Dad Hunt)

shaun7 said:
Just how near where I finished was that silver....you can tell me

We needed to stay on for another 1.5 hours :icon_thumright:

So not that close :thumbsup:

shaun7 · Sep 21, 2011

Re: Field of 500 - Day 4... (+ short Cru'Dad Hunt)

CRUSADER said:
shaun7 said:

Just how near where I finished was that silver....you can tell me

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We needed to stay on for another 1.5 hours So not that close

Oh good, I'd never have made that :P It's nice though, and the stesterticusus :icon_thumleft:

Nutriasub · Sep 21, 2011

Re: Field of 500 - Day 4... (+ short Cru'Dad Hunt)

My God, thats an amazing site, fantastic discoveries, and i think you said ¨hunted out¨"

54 roman, and all the rest...how big its the field? must have been a very important villa or something similar, market?

congratulations!!!

Are you going to clean the denarius a bit more?

Chocadog · Sep 21, 2011

Re: Field of 500 - Day 4... (+ short Cru'Dad Hunt)

I love the two bob bit, what year was it?

CRUSADER · Sep 21, 2011

Re: Field of 500 - Day 4... (+ short Cru'Dad Hunt)

Nutriasub said:
My God, thats an amazing site, fantastic discoveries, and i think you said ¨hunted out¨"

54 roman, and all the rest...how big its the field? must have been a very important villa or something similar, market?

congratulations!!!

Are you going to clean the denarius a bit more? No, that's how I like it

No, picture 1 is a different site which we have hunted hard. The 54 are from the Field of 500, which we only started about 3 years ago & got over 500 Roman Bronze coins in 6-7 weeks

We had limited access last year & only got 3 coins, this year the conditions are perfect :thumbsup:

Its a massive site spread over at least 50 acres, Archies think its a small settlement :icon_thumright:

CRUSADER · Sep 21, 2011

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Chocadog said:
I love the two bob bit, what year was it?

1948

HISPAN · Sep 22, 2011

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Those fields hide a Roman population center, but not small, I would say a rural type city. ::)

H

hammered · Sep 22, 2011

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shaun7 said:
CRUSADER said:

shaun7 said:

Just how near where I finished was that silver....you can tell me

Click to expand...

We needed to stay on for another 1.5 hours So not that close

Click to expand...

Oh good, I'd never have made that :P It's nice though, and the stesterticusus

First of all A BIG WELL DONE to Cru'Dad :thumbsup:

, secondly, it's Sestertius, shaun. You made it sound like Testicular cancer :laughing9:

:P. Very similar to the one I found, although mine was a couple of years later :laughing7:

http://www.ukdfd.co.uk/ukdfddata/showrecords.php?product=24272&cat=48

hammered

{Sentinel} · Sep 22, 2011

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The Caracalla Silver is AWESOME! :headbang:

The son of Septimus Severus, another one of my favorite Romans. Congrats Cru :occasion14:

umrgolf · Sep 22, 2011

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You are having another very fine year :thumbsup:

wwwtimmcp · Sep 22, 2011

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hey crusader what is the copper piece with the nipple in the 3rd photo ? I have one that is close.

Roland58 · Sep 22, 2011

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It must be a wonderful thing to dig every signal you get and come up with something wonderful........I can only imagine. I don't guess you run into many pull tabs in those areas....

Oh yeah, 'grats on the terrific finds!

mcogan / L.I. Mongo Mike · Sep 22, 2011

Re: Field of 500 - Day 4... (+ short Cru'Dad Hunt)

Great! GREAT! GREAT!
Location! LOCATION! LOCATION!

Aquila · Sep 23, 2011

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Great finds as usual :icon_thumleft:

steelheadwill · Sep 23, 2011

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Nice Additions ..
Congrats on the Carracalla and Faustina Jr :wink:

Still looking for my first Roman :icon_scratch:

CRUSADER · Sep 23, 2011

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wwwtimmcp said:
hey crusader what is the copper piece with the nipple in the 3rd photo ? I have one that is close.

The left hand one is a drawer pull, the right hand one is a screw lid, so looks like a cap? to something :dontknow:

CRUSADER · Sep 23, 2011

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HISPAN said:
Those fields hide a Roman population center, but not small, I would say a rural type city.
H

Tiny Villiage at best. :icon_thumright:

Roland58 said:
It must be a wonderful thing to dig every signal you get and come up with something wonderful........I can only imagine. I don't guess you run into many pull tabs in those areas....
Oh yeah, 'grats on the terrific finds!

Well, on one half of the field the farmer has been dumping modern burnt crap, so plenty of modern rubbish to dig :thumbsup: