Split-Site East & Saxon Site - Hammered, 2 SAXON SCEATS & SAXON PENNY...

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The plan worked perfectly. We finish the Roman Site (Split-Site East) in 3 hours, no silvers but 12 Scrappies & a nice lead/pewter 18th C Button with shank.

We then move to a field near an old Abbey, we did this for a couple of years until the owner wanted to charge us £200 per person, per year. We turned them down & now the joke is on them as one of our biggest farmers has brought the whole farm & added it to our permission group. (free of charge)
We have been very short of Saxon finds this year, so we went straight to an area where we had previously found 3 Sceats. We hope to get just 1, as they are near impossible to target. We only gridded for 2.5 hours but boy was that a great afternoon session!
I got the first & second Sceat (circa AD700) in the 2nd hour & as I boasted to Cru'dad about digging my 2nd, he stated ''it's not as good as the Saxon Penny I just dug''. Never have we dug 2 such rare coins at the same time!
We also got 3 Roman Coins.
Cru'dad fished the day with a Hammered Penny of Ed I OTWBTTC!

The Saxon Penny is of the last Mercian King - Burgred AD852-74 (I think the Moneyer EADNOD might be the first to be recorded on the EMC, but I'll wait & see the answer soon) Thought to be related to Beorhtwulf!!! He was the last Mercian King before the Viking Heathen Army took it from him.

 

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UPDATE:

Update on the Saxon Penny;

''William MacKay, who has published a complete die study of the coinage of Burgred, has advised that this is a coin of the moneyer Eadnoth, who was only active in the phase III late coinage of Burgred, dated to c.867 - c.870. William MacKay's die study had 11 coins of Eadnoth in this type.''

 

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Nicely done!

 

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Yeap, the new owner will get one of the Sceat's for starters.

That's quite generous....a great way to lead off...

 

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That's quite generous....a great way to lead off...

Not 'leading off' as such this is our biggest Land-owner so we have a long relationship & given them a couple of thousand pounds of finds. This year we will give them 2 of the 5 Celtic Gold Coins as well, they already have 2 others.

 

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Not 'leading off' as such this is our biggest Land-owner so we have a long relationship & given them a couple of thousand pounds of finds. This year we will give them 2 of the 5 Celtic Gold Coins as well, they already have 2 others.

Very cool. I forget how long you've been doing this...short term memory . I imagine the farmers appreciate it...do you know if they generally keep the finds? May it continue to go well with you so it goes well with them....sort of reversed a biblical saying.

 

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Very cool. I forget how long you've been doing this...short term memory . I imagine the farmers appreciate it...do you know if they generally keep the finds? May it continue to go well with you so it goes well with them....sort of reversed a biblical saying.

We know this farmer keeps it because we add to it every year.

 

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We know this farmer keeps it because we add to it every year.

That's a great bit of history for the farmer to have.