CRUSADER
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Strange weather - On Monday I was in a T-Shirt & my mate got sun burnt whilst fishing & by Wednesday it snowing & today I had to layer up again & it hailed toward the end of the hunt!
As the Spring Beans will start to show soon we moved off our Spring Wheat field (that we are allowed on after it shows & until a couple of inches high) to a bunch of fields that we haven't done very well on but I just wanted to put to bed an idea I had. It wanted to try a far area that looked like a small bay or annex to the main field. Just kind of odd. It turned up nothing, so we started a large area grid where we had found a couple of bits in the past. At one point I left Cru'dad to grid whilst I scouted 5 other large fields (looking for sites) - nothing. Came back to join Cru'dad on the last run before lunch (close to 3 hours) & got the nice hammered. Saved a difficult day, as we tried a 7th field with no luck.
6 hours total:
1/2 a RAF Cap Badge
1797 Penny
1669 Token (Octagonal)
Roman Bracelet bit
Roman Mystery bit
2 Scrappies
1560-61 Elizabeth I Groat - Only had 2, one with this mint mark but this is by far the best example. Amazing how some miss the plough & were dropped straight from the Mint, but it was pretty heavy clay helping out.
As the Spring Beans will start to show soon we moved off our Spring Wheat field (that we are allowed on after it shows & until a couple of inches high) to a bunch of fields that we haven't done very well on but I just wanted to put to bed an idea I had. It wanted to try a far area that looked like a small bay or annex to the main field. Just kind of odd. It turned up nothing, so we started a large area grid where we had found a couple of bits in the past. At one point I left Cru'dad to grid whilst I scouted 5 other large fields (looking for sites) - nothing. Came back to join Cru'dad on the last run before lunch (close to 3 hours) & got the nice hammered. Saved a difficult day, as we tried a 7th field with no luck.
6 hours total:
1/2 a RAF Cap Badge
1797 Penny
1669 Token (Octagonal)
Roman Bracelet bit
Roman Mystery bit
2 Scrappies
1560-61 Elizabeth I Groat - Only had 2, one with this mint mark but this is by far the best example. Amazing how some miss the plough & were dropped straight from the Mint, but it was pretty heavy clay helping out.
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