Scouting Good Intel...

[CRUSADER]

...doesn't always get you what you hoped.
Land-Mag had set us up with a great looking field (on paper). It had good crop-marks on it, which the Archies had thought were Iron Age & Roman. It was next to a brook & opposite a known Roman settlement. But when we got our boots on the ground & gridded the crop-marks they had very little sign of anything. Experience tells us that these were Bronze Age & Iron Age. So another good looking target off the list.
We tried the field next door & then after lunch fell back to the possible Saxon site that Land-Mag & I had scouted. (Where I had the Medieval Lead Seal)
6 hours produced;

5 Scrappies
3 Crotal Bells
Large Roman Nail
Roman Lead Steel-yard Weight
Larges Spec. Buckle
Roman Pin-Head
17th C Spoon Top
17th C Leather Mount
OTWBTTC Cru'dad got a screaming signal 25 metres from the car in a trashy area. Turned out to be an 1851 Shilling. It's actually a pretty scarce date to collect & this one is better than my one in the collection. (the collection I buy, not find)
[FONT=&quot]"My Mate Paul, he collected Collections and wrote a memoir "Recollections of a collections collector " as far as i know it's still unpublished ........."[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]"[/FONT][FONT=&quot]I had a friend once, he had a Cactus, same cactus sitting on his windowsill for 15 years , then one day someone gave him a second cactus then within 6 months he had to move to a bigger house so he had room for his collection, whereas a Woman with 3 cacti would say "that's probably enough Cacti for me "[/FONT]

 

[Westfront]

It's about a 48mm. (most we get are smaller) Just to clarify we kept the nail because it was big. All the steel-yard weights we keep to at least show the owner.

For some sentimental reason i keep the better nails. Most go into the trash bin. All these boxes with pottery and nails are difficult to explain to the wife.