Roman Lion Site - Day 6 - Finished...

[CRUSADER]

This was our last day on this site, so with the windy & rainy conditions forecast, we spent the morning (3.5 hours) gridding the best area where the Roman silver had pooped up from. We gridded at 90 degrees to our last grid & slowed down making sure we went in every dip after every lump. This worked a treat & we had 19 more bronze coins, but sadly we had missed no silver.
After lunch we spent 1.5 hours finishing the last 5% of the area we needed to cover & its wasn't until my last run of the day that I got my best find - the Seal.
Also at lunch Cru'Dad spoke with the farmers son & found out 1 of the detectorist had given up on their farm about 4 years ago.

20 Roman Bronze Coins
2 Buttons
1807 Halfpenny
Roman Fibula Catchplate
14th C Medieval Seal Matrix - Looks like a Bee over Thistle (Doesn't do a good impression & some of the letters are hard to work out) Still a great finish to that field

 

[Westfront]

Cool find on the last hunt there for this year! Do you got some nice bronzes again? How is the total on coins till now?

 

[CRUSADER]

Cool find on the last hunt there for this year! Do you got some nice bronzes again? How is the total on coins till now?

Yes, a couple. We ended up with 110 Bronze & 5 Silver from the site. Also our best Nov result every, in terms of recordables.

 

[CRUSADER]

Coin picture added.

 

[Scrappy]

Great showing Cru! That seal is great. Now are there any records of seals to reference? Also, how can you tell it's a 14C. seal? Style? I find your recoveries incredibly interesting, and congrats again.

Steve

 

[CRUSADER]

Great showing Cru! That seal is great. Now are there any records of seals to reference? Also, how can you tell it's a 14C. seal? Style? I find your recoveries incredibly interesting, and congrats again.

Steve

No references of individual inscriptions because they were locally made & inscribed at markets etc..Unless the wax seals exist on old documents, but these are mostly high status like Royal or very wealthy land-owners.
The Seal normally follow a common approach, in terms of starting 'Seal of Name, son of etc...
The 'Chess Piece' style is typical of the 14th C, so yes, by style.

 

[nsdq]

Wax seal for Mead ? sweet digs

 

[Westfront]

Yes, a couple. We ended up with 110 Bronze & 5 Silver from the site. Also our best Nov result every, in terms of recordables.

Good score and very good Bronze to Silver ratio! Second row, first of the small ones. Is that a barbarous coin?

 

[CRUSADER]

Good score and very good Bronze to Silver ratio! Second row, first of the small ones. Is that a barbarous coin?

Yes, well spotted, its a album, barbarous.