The Track-way Site - Day 6 - Finished...

[CRUSADER]

It only took us about 2 hours to complete the site. It is our last hunt of 2017 & for most of it the ground stayed frozen until we did some exploring in the nearby fields. I wanted to check a field I hadn't looked at for years, but it turned out to be a bust & we can now cross that one off the list. We then moved to the shot-gun alley site to try & get a scrappy for the day. It wasn't to be but I did get a small piece of a Saxon Brooch instead.
The finds really pinged out good in frozen ground.
4 hours 15 minutes;

Nice early Navy Button
2 Jettons
14th C Medieval Buckle
6th C Saxon Brooch (bit)
Rose farthing (from last hunt, found in the pouch)

The end of 2017, bring on the 2018 finds...

UPDATE;

As luck would have it the brooch bit is a missing piece to another of our previous years finds. We look out for this but it never happens!

 

Amazon Forum Fav 👍

Family Maps of Hinds County, Mississippi, Deluxe Edition - Grab it through Amazon!

[BuckleBoy]

Some good finds in there. I love the early navy button!

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Really cool finds, congratulations!

 

[landmagnet]

The end of another great year!
It would be interesting to divide distance walked by you and Cru'dad, what the GPS'd finds per mile would be ?? You must have covered a fair distance.?

 

[CRUSADER]

The end of another great year!
It would be interesting to divide distance walked by you and Cru'dad, what the GPS'd finds per mile would be ?? You must have covered a fair distance.?

Yes we must of. With our stats we have already analysed finds per hours being very high this year even though its one of our low hour years.

 

[Relicific]

Nice Navy button
Yes bring on 2018

 

[landmagnet]

Thought as much!

 

[Scrappy]

Great buckle. That strap looking thing next to the buckle - what is that?

 

[CRUSADER]

Great buckle. That strap looking thing next to the buckle - what is that?

That's then end of the Saxon Brooch, stylized animal head, often referred to as a horse head.

 

[CRUSADER]

Great buckle. That strap looking thing next to the buckle - what is that?

We just reunited it with its mate! See top post.

 

[Scrappy]

Ok, didn’t see the loop in that first initial pic. Wow man, that is incredible that you pieced them together!

 

[Westfront]

Thats pretty cool! How big is the chance to reunite broken parts spread in a field.... Great way to end a year.
We hope for sunday as a last day, forecast says temps go up to 10°C.

 

[CRUSADER]

Thats pretty cool! How big is the chance to reunite broken parts spread in a field.... Great way to end a year.
We hope for sunday as a last day, forecast says temps go up to 10°C.

OK, good luck, it's been really rainy today!

 

[pepperj]

Well done on finding and matching up the two pieces a rare happening at that. Liking the buckle as it has a great patina look to it, as it just stands out being dark.
I dug a part of a Saxon disk brooch, and some yrs later another chap dug another part on the field. While looking through an export I noticed that another hunter had found yet another small piece of the brooch. We're going to see if we can come to some agreement over the winter on how to get these pieces back together as the brooch deserves to be displayed in it's almost completed state.

 

[CRUSADER]

Well done on finding and matching up the two pieces a rare happening at that. Liking the buckle as it has a great patina look to it, as it just stands out being dark.
I dug a part of a Saxon disk brooch, and some yrs later another chap dug another part on the field. While looking through an export I noticed that another hunter had found yet another small piece of the brooch. We're going to see if we can come to some agreement over the winter on how to get these pieces back together as the brooch deserves to be displayed in it's almost completed state.

It's rare but it does happen. Strangely not normally with our Saxon finds.

The most famous one I remember is finding a broken Georgian gold coin & 4 years later Shaun7 finding the other half. I gave him some funds to re-unite them, but its the story that's priceless.