Quite decent day spanning 6000 years

[Westfront]

Had the opportunity to detect one of the "once" better fields and did well. Because of the heavy rain we had the fields are washed and you can pick loads of pottery and other stuff you rarely get typically.

The usual WWII stuff

Lead

Some of the roman pottery i picked today

Group shot of todays finds laying on a large fragment of a roman roof tile

Roman finds with two Fibula and one Fibula pin, coins, amphora/bottle plug

Closeup of the two better coins

Other finds with an interesting clay loom weight i can't date

And the find of the day, an undamaged neolithic adze, dating to 4500-4000BC.

Here are some examples from the museum in front of the flint scythe.

source Wikipedia

Thanks for looking!

 

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[The Aluminum Monster]

Absolutely crazy finds. Congrats on a stellar hunt!

 

[GaRebel1861]

That’s a good day to me when you get to find artifacts from several different time periods.

 

[Digger RJ]

Very Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[Plumbata]

Great finds! I suspect that your adze is more of a "gouge" for scooping-out cavities in wood, versus a normal flat-bit adze for flattening or squaring wood which seem more common. Congrats!

 

[RVRoamer74]

Very interesting and a diverse assortment. A pleasure to look at. Thanks for sharing so much history. & Congrats!!

 

[Westfront]

Great finds! I suspect that your adze is more of a "gouge" for scooping-out cavities in wood, versus a normal flat-bit adze for flattening or squaring wood which seem more common. Congrats!

Not really. The adze was used in a defined period as axe. There are many wood finds (mostly well timbering) where it's proven the trees were cut with adze style tools.
You can say the adze is the ancestor of the axe. At least here, not sure how it was over the pond. I know this exact style was found in Fl. too.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Outstanding finds...BIG Congrats!

 

[Relicific]

Beautiful finds.
Congrats

 

[Inspector]

Pretty amazing day of recoveries, Thanks 4sharing & congratulations on the saves

 

[Plumbata]

I believe something may have gotten lost in translation, what I was suggesting is that while the piece was indeed hafted like other straight-edge stone adzes, the cutting-edge is more half-circular rather than straight, so despite being ungrooved it would have functioned more like a curved steel gouge rather than a straight chisel and been used for scooping or hollowing-out wooden vessels. I too have seen the evidence that straight-edge adzes were used for felling trees, but your piece has a curved edge and was probably used differently.

 

[CRUSADER]

Nice complete example - cool

 

[xcopperstax]

Incredible finds!!! Thanks for sharing. Those roman coins are beauties as well! Cant go wrong with a n ancient adze!

 

[Rubka888]

The Roman coins are stunning! Can't believe how well they survived. Nice hunt!

 

[Westfront]

I believe something may have gotten lost in translation, what I was suggesting is that while the piece was indeed hafted like other straight-edge stone adzes, the cutting-edge is more half-circular rather than straight, so despite being ungrooved it would have functioned more like a curved steel gouge rather than a straight chisel and been used for scooping or hollowing-out wooden vessels. I too have seen the evidence that straight-edge adzes were used for felling trees, but your piece has a curved edge and was probably used differently.

You may be right, unfortunately my Archie who has unbelievable knowledge in artifacts retired some years ago and i can't ask him if he knows about the use of the tall/narrow style adze. Vessels were something our ancestors here needed the last. No lakes or rivers around. Most comon is the flat/wide type.

 

[Westfront]

The Roman coins are stunning! Can't believe how well they survived. Nice hunt!

Sometimes it's just plain luck, sometimes it's the alloy. The small one is a barbarious coin, made local, these are usually better alloy than official minted coins.

 

[Westfront]

Incredible finds!!! Thanks for sharing. Those roman coins are beauties as well! Cant go wrong with a n ancient adze!

Every hunt i come home with stone artifacts is a great day for me. I like this stuff.

 

[Westfront]

Nice complete example - cool

Don't happens often. Good day!

 

[Westfront]

Thanks all for the replies!

 

[uglymailman]

I'm late to the party again Lu. THAT was a happy hunt,huh? I see you scored yet another silver coin and noticed how well the Roman coins turned out. Were they deep or just a field short on fertilizer?
I understand how rare those adz's coming out whole are, even here. Good luck.