Roman Lion Site - Day 3 - 2 X ROMAN SILVER...

CRUSADER · Sep 18, 2017

Firstly the first picture includes 2 scrappies & a Roman Stud from Cru'Dad's short hunt yesterday on the Roman Mansio Site. (now drilled with grass) It also includes 2 scrappies & a Roman Stud from our quick 1 hour search on the new Roman Site.
We changed to plan B & spent the next 4 hours on the Roman Lion Site - ankle breaker. I'm really glad we did. :laughing7:

(tough for Cru'Dad but he stuck it out for 3 of the 4 hours!) Several of my finds were on the top, including the brooches & the nice silver, if the power hoe got to these surface finds who knows what state they would be in, as the soil is very sandy here. Hence all the edge knocks on many of the coins.

Roman Lion Site;

31 Roman Bronze Coins - Love the large Follis of Constantius I
Roman Steel-yard Weight
Roman Fibula - 1st C AD
Very nice rare & complete 6th C AD Saxon Small-Long Brooch - Might indicate the site continued past the Roman period.
2 Roman Silvers - Probable imitation of Sept-Sev, & a stunning Geta AD199. :headbang:

(father & son, we found the other son/brother in this field last time!)- Both found by me, but I nicked the best one off of Cru'Dad's run.

Gridwalker306 · Sep 18, 2017

Absolutely love the small-long brooch. Nice to have Roman and Saxon activity on your site. Very good looking bronze and silvers as well!

CRUSADER · Sep 19, 2017

J.Cache said:
Absolutely love the small-long brooch.

Yeap, rare to get them whole. Came up from depth & might have been smashed on the soon to come power hoe.

Eu_citzen · Sep 19, 2017

Nice mix as always. I like the "big" roman coin, well, besides the silver of course.

Mzjavert · Sep 19, 2017

pepperj · Sep 19, 2017

What a smashing hunt! Liking the silver and bronzes, but the brooch and Fib are very sweet. :occasion14:

I'm not getting it on the "power Hoe" machinery reference Cru. Enlighten this case of brain fog.
I do think that a finer screening in a potato lifter would serve as employment enjoyment catching the finds. :laughing7:

CRUSADER · Sep 19, 2017

pepperj said:
What a smashing hunt! Liking the silver and bronzes, but the brooch and Fib are very sweet.

I'm not getting it on the "power Hoe" machinery reference Cru. Enlighten this case of brain fog.
I do think that a finer screening in a potato lifter would serve as employment enjoyment catching the finds.

Just a machine that smashes up all the big lumps into dust.

huntsman53 · Sep 19, 2017

gold boy said:
man i wished i lived over there sweet finds can't wait to see the coins

Yeah but I wonder if we could order 100 million metric tonnes of freshly turned crop field soil and get it shipped to the United States!!?? :laughing7:

Frank

huntsman53 · Sep 19, 2017

Westfront said:
That crossed my mind first, but knowing the first Tesco opened a bit later i wasn't sure....

Maybe they had an early Walmart because the Romans did build a Wall you know! At least back then, Walmart wouldn't have been selling all that Chinese crap. :laughing7:

Frank

Steve in PA · Sep 19, 2017

Some great detail on those coins. I really like the big heavy one and the silvers. I imagine that you dig a lot of scappies for every well preserved bronze Roman.

CRUSADER · Sep 19, 2017

Steve in PA said:
Some great detail on those coins. I really like the big heavy one and the silvers. I imagine that you dig a lot of scappies for every well preserved bronze Roman.

True.