Roman Lion Field + New Land...

[CRUSADER]

Most of this post is Friday's stuff, the 16 Roman Coins we got today in 3 hours.

(Fri) We did 2.5 hours on the Roman Lion Field & got 13 Scrappies. After lunch we decided to move to a nearby field that for years has been pasture & was recently ploughed to set fresh grass for the horses.(2.5 hrs) On the face of it the new field (old permission) looked promising, it was close to a medieval monastery farm & was less than 50 metres from the back of an 18th C Manor House. We were hoping for hammered - modern finds.
Well less than 20 minutes into the scouting mission, I had a hammered, but after 2.5 hours & some gridding that ended up being the best find.

Fossil
The strangest longest spoon handle I have seen, & its broken off at the top, so even longer! Ideas?
Roman Lead Steelyard Weight
13 Roman Bronze Coins (Fri)
16 Roman Coins (Today)- best was a large Billon Follis- IMPDIOCLETIANVS P AVG – Laureate and Cuirassed Bust right 28.59mm 10.12gm
1560-61 Lizzy Groat - My first Groat of Lizzy, got 2 Shillings & lots of Sixpences. Being the size of a later Sixpence, that's what I thought it was until I saw the mintmark at home - fairly scarce second issue coin.

 

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[stillrollin300]

Good stuff Cru, I'm stumped on that spoon as well. Not only is it an incredibly long handle but it is very oddly shaped.

 

[CRUSADER]

Good stuff Cru, I'm stumped on that spoon as well. Not only is it an incredibly long handle but it is very oddly shaped.

It also has 2 bits of decoration on the 'reverse'

 

[stillrollin300]

Maybe it was for feeding really ugly babies that you didn't want to get to close to

 

[H-2 CHARLIE]

Your killing man .
Dreams of dreams to hunt a field like that .

 

[CRUSADER]

Your killing man .
Dreams of dreams to hunt a field like that .

I had a dream start to 2016, until today, I was 3 silver for 3 outings (1 each trip). This is good for what is normally one of the tougher months.

 

[OutdoorAdv]

Awesome finds as usual Cru Those old British hammered coins are sweet. I would love to dig something like that over here... except I think stillrollin300 is cleaning them all out

 

[stillrollin300]

Awesome finds as usual Cru Those old British hammered coins are sweet. I would love to dig something like that over here... except I think stillrollin300 is cleaning them all out

Yea Yea Yea I'm giving colonial a break this week and heading to a Civil War spot. So you have a chance to sneak past me on those old colonial silvers

 

[Darby]

As always Cru some awesome digs! Thanks for posting, really enjoy seeing the treasures y'all dig.

 

[CRUSADER]

Todays coin picture now added to top post.

 

[snowtrooper49]

Just looking at the symmetry- could that have been a double ended spoon? I've seen a few very old examples before of double ended spoons...

 

[CRUSADER]

Just looking at the symmetry- could that have been a double ended spoon? I've seen a few very old examples before of double ended spoons...

I think your right, it would explain a lot.

 

[nsdq]

Well done ,, is it possible the spoon was use in early pharmacy use ?

 

[Westfront]

Nice big hammered and a spoon never seen before.

 

[CRUSADER]

Well done ,, is it possible the spoon was use in early pharmacy use ?

Dad & I discussed a type of medicine spoon, but now I'm pretty sure it was 2 ended. So I assume 1 bowl was larger than the other, so could be a pharmacy measuring type spoon??

 

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[johnnyblaze]

That spoon was for the bad boys and girls..It was made so it was to long to get the food in their mouth

 

[sutphin]

NICE FINDS CRU AND THE SPOON LOOKS TO BE MAYBE FOR MARROW OR SNUFF . WHATEVER ITS USED ON MUST BE DEEP ...