Rewarded by a favour for a farmer

[Urien of Rheged]

There's an area I like to hunt up here in the north of England called Bowland.which is about as remote as it gets in England. For ambience and scenery it's fantastic, for finds however, not so much. I've got a few permissions scattered around the area and when I was first given this particular area I had high hopes having studied the local history there was a settlement there was literally wiped out during medieval Europes black death.
Having spent hours and hours hunting the area though I had very little joy, a medieval ampula about the best and certainly the oldest find. Amd so I moved onto new pastures.
Anyway, I came by the farmer earlier this week and he asked me if I'd come find a few mole traps he couldn't find and so tonight woth a couple of hours spare before dark I paid a visit.
Found the mole catchers straight away and so I spent the next hour and a half swinging my coil amd predictably finding very little for my effort. Just as the light was fading along with all hope, and out if nowehere up pops a Romano British fibula (haven't had time to identify the type but I'm guessing 1st century)
At best I was hoping I'd find maybe a 700-800 year old relic there, certainly did not expect a 1700-1800 year old relic instead.
Very happy with that one. It's nice finding coins but you can't beat a good old relic.

 

[Trezurehunter]

Very nice find !

 

[Gare]

Nice ice going Thank you for sharing with us

 

[oldmxrat]

Too cool, congrats on a very fine recovery!

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

A great piece of history - congrats !

 

[pepperj]

Congratulations on the Fibula brooch.
Great looking example 👍
Often in the real quite areas, it becomes a quality over quantity thing for recoveries.

Swing for hours with only a few bits of nothing special in the pouch, then the photo of the keeper happens.

 

[Urien of Rheged]

Congratulations on the Fibula brooch.
Great looking example 👍
Often in the real quite areas, it becomes a quality over quantity thing for recoveries.

Swing for hours with only a few bits of nothing special in the pouch, then the photo of the keeper happens.

I know the black death depopulated the region but it's a beautiful valley with no towns. Much of the land belongs to "The Duchy of Lancaster" created I think around the 12th century. The Duchy passes by right to whoever the reigning monarch is so all the land on the Duchy estate belongs to Charlie3. In fact it's traditional for us Lancastrians when toasting the monarch to refer to him or her as "The Duke" rather than the King or Queen.
When the Duchy was created much of Bowland became a royal hunting ground. A playground for the aristocracy to do what they love most, killing animals. Getting caught stealing so much as a rabbit would be a death sentence for the common man and so perhaps it explains why there is so little to be found in the area. The fact it is part of Duchy undoubtedly saved the area in more modern times from development and the it's been classified as "an area of outstanding natural beauty" so forbthe foreseeable future the spread of the suburbs won't touch the place. You cant buy a house there, you can only rent the ones already there that belong to the Duke.
By the way I don't have permission to hunt on the actual estate lands and haven't even attempted to try and get a permission. My permissions are all just outside the extent of the estate.

 

[Urien of Rheged]

Identified as a "Headstud" type. Circa 2nd century AD.
In my 4 years detecting I've been blessed with 5 gold coins dating from 1774 - 1872 but I can honestly hand on heart say, and this is my third Roman era brooch, that I've had more pleasure finding the brooches which I'd be lucky to get $100 for all of them.

 

[jewelerguy]

very cool. I love seeing the ancient Roman finds posted on the forum.

 

[scruggs]

What a relic! Its a BEAUTY!

 

[Digger RJ]

There's an area I like to hunt up here in the north of England called Bowland.which is about as remote as it gets in England. For ambience and scenery it's fantastic, for finds however, not so much. I've got a few permissions scattered around the area and when I was first given this particular area I had high hopes having studied the local history there was a settlement there was literally wiped out during medieval Europes black death.
Having spent hours and hours hunting the area though I had very little joy, a medieval ampula about the best and certainly the oldest find. Amd so I moved onto new pastures.
Anyway, I came by the farmer earlier this week and he asked me if I'd come find a few mole traps he couldn't find and so tonight woth a couple of hours spare before dark I paid a visit.
Found the mole catchers straight away and so I spent the next hour and a half swinging my coil amd predictably finding very little for my effort. Just as the light was fading along with all hope, and out if nowehere up pops a Romano British fibula (haven't had time to identify the type but I'm guessing 1st century)
At best I was hoping I'd find maybe a 700-800 year old relic there, certainly did not expect a 1700-1800 year old relic instead.
Very happy with that one. It's nice finding coins but you can't beat a good old relic. View attachment 2216354View attachment 2216355View attachment 2216356View attachment 2216357

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There's an area I like to hunt up here in the north of England called Bowland.which is about as remote as it gets in England. For ambience and scenery it's fantastic, for finds however, not so much. I've got a few permissions scattered around the area and when I was first given this particular area I had high hopes having studied the local history there was a settlement there was literally wiped out during medieval Europes black death.
Having spent hours and hours hunting the area though I had very little joy, a medieval ampula about the best and certainly the oldest find. Amd so I moved onto new pastures.
Anyway, I came by the farmer earlier this week and he asked me if I'd come find a few mole traps he couldn't find and so tonight woth a couple of hours spare before dark I paid a visit.
Found the mole catchers straight away and so I spent the next hour and a half swinging my coil amd predictably finding very little for my effort. Just as the light was fading along with all hope, and out if nowehere up pops a Romano British fibula (haven't had time to identify the type but I'm guessing 1st century)
At best I was hoping I'd find maybe a 700-800 year old relic there, certainly did not expect a 1700-1800 year old relic instead.
Very happy with that one. It's nice finding coins but you can't beat a good old relic. View attachment 2216354View attachment 2216355View attachment 2216356View attachment 2216357

ver Cool!!! Congrats!!!