Saxon Field - Day 7 - Swedish Visitor...

[CRUSADER]

Firstly I had the following email yesterday from a landowners wife:
'I wonder if you could help us as a bit of an emergency?!! [person name] wedding ring has fallen off and he knows it is in an area about 1m x 4m in a field in amongst a pile of waste straw! Its a platinum ring.'
I replied we would find it today, & whilst I was showing a Swedish Visitor how to detect for the first time, Dad did the 1 hour 30 minutes round trip to spend 2 minutes finding it. Its always a pleasure to help on these matters, specially a wedding ring. But Dad has still got a way to go to beat my 30 second wedding ring find & return.

Picture 5 with the Royal Flying Corp Cap Badge was a short hunt Dad did yesterday.

My Swedish friend was keen to try Metal Detecting, as she is involved in Viking Reenactments & selling copies of Viking Jewelry. We took her to the best option we have right now & gave her our lighter option - Tesoro Silver UMax. She picked it up very quickly & is used to spotting things in the earth whilst fossil hunting etc.. She ended up with a great result: Roman Bronze Coin, Saxon Pin Head!, Nice Livery Button, 1886 Farthing, & several other bits.

We did 4 hours detecting in total, either side of a pack lunch.

Dad got 2 poor Hammered!

I did the worst with 1 scrappy & not even a good button!

 

[CRUSADER]

Update on Ring:

Reply by email:

'Thanks so much! Me and [person name] had spent ages by hand looking for it.'

 

[Erik in NJ]

Nice finds as usual! What's on the front of the Livery Button? What, no pics of the Swedish gal??

 

[CRUSADER]

Nice finds as usual! What's on the front of the Livery Button? What, no pics of the Swedish gal??

Bunch of crossed Arrows but it still had 90% of its silver plating.

If I had put pictures on the Net I might have had my head chopped off

 

[Meatmechanic]

Like we care about your head . LOL

 

[hdmech71]

Always so good to read your post and look in awl of what you find.

 

[woody50]

Well nice finds Cru, pity that the hammered were in such bad shape!
Earl

 

[nuggy]

Just can't do better than Swedish girls, despite what the Beach Boys "California girls" and Beatles "Moscow Girls, from Back in the USSR" say about it. Those Swedish girls are impressive. Nuggy

 

[woody50]

Just can't do better than Swedish girls, despite what the Beach Boys "California girls" and Beatles "Moscow Girls, from Back in the USSR" say about it. Those Swedish girls are impressive. Nuggy

Guess you have never seen any Dutch girls Nuggy... The Dutch are the tallest people in Europe.

 

[Chisos]

Ages of civilization waiting to be found on your island. Amazing. I love England. Used to spend summers there a couple of decades ago. Course I'm kinda weird. My first trip to the British Museum, I took in the displays and sort of just wandered about. Then I saw it. In a room filled with illuminated manuscripts, there on the wall, framed in a small case, was the back of an envelope with the words "scrambled eggs" scratched out and replaced by "Yesterday" and then the lyrics, all my troubles seemed so far away...Sir Paul at his best. That was a stellar moment for me. Had to go have a couple pints of ale at the Red Lion after that.
By the way, if your swedish friend likes viking things, go to youtube and watch-Stella Artois vikings commercial. If she hasn't seen it, she will enjoy it.

 

[oldsalty19]

 

[CRUSADER]

Guess you have never seen any Dutch girls Nuggy... The Dutch are the tallest people in Europe.

Good to see you back.

She is tiny

 

[Erik in NJ]

That's funny Woodman Guess you've never been to Norway where my ancestors are from! LOL

Guess you have never seen any Dutch girls Nuggy... The Dutch are the tallest people in Europe.

 

[nuggy]

Guess you have never seen any Dutch girls Nuggy... The Dutch are the tallest people in Europe - Quote woody50

Actually my other half is Dutch and taller than me too, which isn't hard I'm only 5ft 8". Lot of Dutch people live down here, and yes a lot of them are tall.

But there's definitely something about those Swedish girls..... Don't tell the mrs I said that though lol
Nuggy

 

[CRUSADER]

Ages of civilization waiting to be found on your island. Amazing. I love England. Used to spend summers there a couple of decades ago. Course I'm kinda weird. My first trip to the British Museum, I took in the displays and sort of just wandered about. Then I saw it. In a room filled with illuminated manuscripts, there on the wall, framed in a small case, was the back of an envelope with the words "scrambled eggs" scratched out and replaced by "Yesterday" and then the lyrics, all my troubles seemed so far away...Sir Paul at his best. That was a stellar moment for me. Had to go have a couple pints of ale at the Red Lion after that.
By the way, if your swedish friend likes viking things, go to youtube and watch-Stella Artois vikings commercial. If she hasn't seen it, she will enjoy it.

Sent her the link, she thought it was funny but likes this drinking ad better: