look no iron! old silver though!

[shaun7]

went out again today with crusader! i know now that if there is one hammered within a square mile he will get it

i didn't get any hammered again, but nearly! it was a 169* silver sixpence
also got a modern silver sixpence (1943)!
a 17th century token which crusader is trying to i'd for me
a small roman coin
a nice late medieval buckle, with a flower patern

and of course buttons

pics to follow!

 

[woody50]

Nice finds Shaun, the silver IS increasing for sure. The hammereds will come along, just take your time.
Cru, the same as everybody, can miss things too, so there is always the chance......

Yeah, I miss plenty. However this field is virgin land & we are going over it for the first time. Finds are few & far between but its worth doing.

I know what you mean. Have had virgin land before (or at least that was told to us). Also good finds but scattered. Funny is that almost every time they seem to become better every year. Maybe luck or understanding the ground better who knows.

I have also came across land that didn't seem to have anything in it, although it was close to an ancient village and just had to have something. After a time I tested the ground, putting a hammered deeper and deeper into the ground. It was a funny color of red, and the hammered could not be found and disappeared after about a inch or so. Even brought a bucket of the stuff back with me to see what I could do with different detectors (PI and such), but nothing got through it. We have now found some things there, also hammered, but you have to move very very slow and have everything at max. That was the only time we were stumped as what to do...

I would love the luxury of going slow, its a 300 acre field, we have only touched it on the edges.

Then I would said use a rapid cross over search over much of the field to try to find the hotspots, you know where most of them would be (close to roads/villages), but there can be many other hot spots out into the field, we have found them everywhere, even where you don't expect them. But I think you know all this. But with 300 acre's and much time I would use your normal search pattern, but maybe search one row and miss 2, until you hit something. If you have en ought time and nothing better to do, just cover every inch.

 

[CRUSADER]

Nice finds Shaun, the silver IS increasing for sure. The hammereds will come along, just take your time.
Cru, the same as everybody, can miss things too, so there is always the chance......

Yeah, I miss plenty. However this field is virgin land & we are going over it for the first time. Finds are few & far between but its worth doing.

I know what you mean. Have had virgin land before (or at least that was told to us). Also good finds but scattered. Funny is that almost every time they seem to become better every year. Maybe luck or understanding the ground better who knows.

I have also came across land that didn't seem to have anything in it, although it was close to an ancient village and just had to have something. After a time I tested the ground, putting a hammered deeper and deeper into the ground. It was a funny color of red, and the hammered could not be found and disappeared after about a inch or so. Even brought a bucket of the stuff back with me to see what I could do with different detectors (PI and such), but nothing got through it. We have now found some things there, also hammered, but you have to move very very slow and have everything at max. That was the only time we were stumped as what to do...

I would love the luxury of going slow, its a 300 acre field, we have only touched it on the edges.

Then I would said use a rapid cross over search over much of the field to try to find the hotspots, you know where most of them would be (close to roads/villages), but there can be many other hot spots out into the field, we have found them everywhere, even where you don't expect them. But I think you know all this. But with 300 acre's and much time I would use your normal search pattern, but maybe search one row and miss 2, until you hit something. If you have en ought time and nothing better to do, just cover every inch.

Already tried the striking out for hotspots & it got us very little. It wasn't until we gridded that we got anything. So yes we will over the years cover it all.

 

[dirthunter]

Great finds on the silver.

 

[shaun7]

Great finds on the silver.

thanks, although i should say, the older one is not 169*! it's 1723!!

id'd by crusader

only made it for 1 year

 

[woody50]

Great finds on the silver.

thanks, although i should say, the older one is not 169*! it's 1723!!
id'd by crusader
only made it for 1 year

Well you can surely see that old clothes and rags were burnt in the fields, in any case the old
silver coin sure looks burnt! Nice find!

 

[shaun7]

Great finds on the silver.

thanks, although i should say, the older one is not 169*! it's 1723!!
id'd by crusader
only made it for 1 year

Well you can surely see that old clothes and rags were burnt in the fields, in any case the old
silver coin sure looks burnt! Nice find!

not sure it was burnt, just tarnished

got rid of that with some ash

 

[STH69]

Bloody good show

 

[CRUSADER]

Agreed, heavily oxidized, not burnt (may look it in picture).

This field actually shows up far less buttons than normal. No signs of any burnt buttons yet. Most are casual lose/dumped.

 

[woody50]

Agreed, heavily oxidized, not burnt (may look it in picture).

This field actually shows up far less buttons than normal. No signs of any burnt buttons yet. Most are casual lose/dumped.

OK Cru en Shaun, it just looked pretty burned! But Cru, far less buttons than normal. What you find in your local fields is
NOT normal. Normally I find in two weeks searching about 10 to 20 buttons, you find that in one day! Anyway nice finds.

 

[CRUSADER]

GOT IT.

It is an Essex token:

WILLIAM WILDMAN - 1667
Saffron Walden

No other info in the book on what his profession he was ie pub owner or grocer. It just shows how little we know about these types of tokens.

Common-ish - £16 in the book. Who cares, got a full ID.

 

[shaun7]

GOT IT.

It is an Essex token:

WILLIAM WILDMAN - 1667
Saffron Walden

No other info in the book on what his profession he was ie pub owner or grocer. It just shows how little we know about these types of tokens.

Common-ish - £16 in the book. Who cares, got a full ID.

nice one, cheers mate

are they swords on the back?

 

[CRUSADER]

GOT IT.

It is an Essex token:

WILLIAM WILDMAN - 1667
Saffron Walden

No other info in the book on what his profession he was ie pub owner or grocer. It just shows how little we know about these types of tokens.

Common-ish - £16 in the book. Who cares, got a full ID.

nice one, cheers mate

are they swords on the back?

I'm just not sure, no clues in the book.