Two Bucket lister's up today!

[Urien of Rheged]

I've been hunting a permission now close to a Roman fort and settlement here in Lancashire since spring now. I've had some great finds including gold, quite a few medieval coins bit only the odd Roman coin and not in any decent condition too.

So up bright and early this morning determined to find a nice denarius I toiled away. I decided to hunt around the field gate which I know a lot of detectorists steer clear of because a lot of modern rubbish tends to accumulate and oh how glad I was too.

I was finding the expected modern rubbish but I got a very scratchy signal thst I knew was deep. My pointer decided to run out of batteries though and I'd left the spare in the car and I was getting seriously frustrated trying to squeeze the last bit if life out of the pointer, I very nearly gave up i
on the hole expecting to find nothing anyway but then I peered down and could see a nice deep green patina. It then dawned on me what I'd just come across...a bronze age Palstave axe head circa 1400BC.
Maybe I've peaked too early I'm 2025 but I really don't care!
I'll give it a good clean and post it up later. Thanks for looking folks.
What a hobby this is!
Still no Roman though. A thousand years after them and now a thousand years before.
Maybe next time then 😉🤩

 

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[sprailroad]

Won't find many of those in Oregon. About 1400 B.C.? Now there is a WOW factor. Good for you Urien. If only that thing could talk, and tell it's story.

 

[pepperj]

I'd certainly take that over a grotty old Roman bronze anyway.

Certainly a great day it turned out to be.
Hope it gains traction and goes up on the banner.
4000 yrs old
£700+
Sweet.
Will this be reported or deemed a treasure?

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

What an amazing find - congrats !

 

[ToddsPoint]

That’s an amazing find! Congrats!

 

[PetesPockets55]

Oh ... oh ... oh my what a find.
Fantastic looking relic.
Congratulations.

 

[Gene Mean]

Awesome! Can't wait to see cleaned up pictures.

 

[ToddsPoint]

I was just watching a video on Bronze Age Britain.

Here are three screen shots that show axes similar to yours.

 

[Urien of Rheged]

Thanks for the interest and positive vibes folks.

A light clean with just tepid water.
As we say in Lancashire..."Am well chuffed".

 

[Urien of Rheged]

I also found this little blighter in that field today too. This from 1648AD though so it's quite a bit more modern than a 1400BC axehead but having done a bit of searching my spinks coins of England book and a bit more searching on the Internet it turns out this rather unassuming little coin is quite the rarity and it's looking like it could be the most valuable thing I've ever found.
a memorable days detecting indeed!

for sure

 

[ironhorse]

Happy Days!
Finding something like that would make your day and then some!
I can understand why this was on your 'bucket list' ..a truly special find!
Give yourself a pat on the back for that one ..well done!!

 

[Urien of Rheged]

Happy Days!
Finding something like that would make your day and then some!
I can understand why this was on your 'bucket list' ..a truly special find!
Give yourself a pat on the back for that one ..well done!!

I started seriously detecting around 2021 and anything bronze age was high on the list. In August 2022 I unearthed a bronze age flat axe. It's not very large and it's quite crude really but as a find its as old as they come. 4000 years old. Asthetically it doesnt rate with later bronze age style though and so a palstave or socketed was still up there om that list.
Some would say the coin is the real bucket lister though. Rarer than bronze age axeheads for sure albeit not as cool.
But still check this and scroll tp the bottom😲

Charles I 1648 Pontefract Shilling, posthumous issue in name of Charles II

Charles I (1625-49), silver octagonal siege Shilling, issued from the Royalist stronghold of Pontefract Castle, dated 1648 (old style)

www.vcoins.com

 

[ArfieBoy]

Beautiful axe head. Congratulations! The coin is very interesting, too. Thanks for sharing with us.

 

[Urien of Rheged]

I'd certainly take that over a grotty old Roman bronze anyway.

Certainly a great day it turned out to be.
Hope it gains traction and goes up on the banner.
4000 yrs old
£700+
Sweet.
Will this be reported or deemed a treasure?

It will be recorded with the PAS (portable antiquities scheme) with an image with scale sent and the precise location.
The finds liason officer will be far more impressed with the Pontefract siege coin though I reckon having looked into them more.
They really are rare, struck in a 52 day period from the falling of Charles head in London to the fall of the royalist castle in Pontefract Yorkshire.
Kinda wish I'd known what a special find it is when I dug it up but hey ho I think I'll live with that one, my own fault for not being educated enough in my own nations civil war.
I didnt stay long in that part of the field either so guess where I'm off too next time I'm let of the leash...never satisfied us detectorists 😆

 

[Urien of Rheged]

It will be recorded with the PAS (portable antiquities scheme) with an image with scale sent and the precise location.
The finds liason officer will be far more impressed with the Pontefract siege coin though I reckon having looked into them more.
They really are rare, struck in a 52 day period from the falling of Charles head in London to the fall of the royalist castle in Pontefract Yorkshire.
Kinda wish I'd known what a special find it is when I dug it up but hey ho I think I'll live with that one, my own fault for not being educated enough in my own nations civil war.
I didnt stay long in that part of the field either so guess where I'm off too next time I'm let of the leash...never satisfied us detectorists 😆

Scrap that I'd bloody identified wrong. It's not the Spinks 3150 it's actually the spinks 3148

1704 - Charles I (1625-49), Octagonal Shilling, Pontefract, 1648, 4.89g...

It's diamond shaped in my 2012 edition spinks book image but I overlooked the bit that says they where made lozenge shaped, round and octaganol

 

[Gare]

ABSOLUTELY AMAZING FINDS !!! Thank you for sharing with us . How do you research on places to find. If you choose not to explaing I understand.

 

[Urien of Rheged]

ABSOLUTELY AMAZING FINDS !!! Thank you for sharing with us . How do you research on places to find. If you choose not to explaing I understand.

I don't mind my friend. I'm not a magpie who likes to horde for my own selfish reasons. I'm always open to someone joining me for a session so if you're ever passing as Americans seldom do up this way just let me know, I've even got a back up machine in case you have trouble at the airport.
I try not to overthink where to hunt but it always helps to know something of the areas history - like if it was used as landfill back in the 60's tends to be helpful kinda thing. Bit I've found coins and relics can come from where least expected and the places you think will be fields of dreams tend to be duds.
The area I found these is pretty obvious to be fair and the problem there is it attracts and has attracted for decades detectorists from miles away as its close to a Roman fort built around 70AD that had a vicus (civil settlement) attached that thrived well at least continued through the medieval era but was spared the industrialisation when many Lancashire valleys turned into those places with the dark satanic mills Karl Marx wrote about.
In fact a canal was set to be cut right through that valley back in the 1800's bit was diverted into the next valley instead at the stroke of a pen. Had that stroke not happened without a doubt the sleepy little hamlet would now be another decaying Lancashire ex industrial town like so many others around these parts and the only thing you'd find swinging a coil would be beer tops and junkies needles.

 

[Gare]

You sure have some GREAT historical sites over there !!!

 

[Urien of Rheged]

You sure have some GREAT historical sites over there !!!

There aren't many positives in today's Yookay plc. But history is definetly one of them. And as the country disintegrates around me I fund more and more solice focusing on that history rather than the present.
The siege coin is going to auction a 50/50 split with the landowner. First it travels to Florida though to be cleaned and graded. Back to London and under the hammer. I'll keep you posted woth the results.
The axehead is going to the PAS for analysis and restoration (not really restoration more preservation)

 

[scruggs]

It's a BEAUTY!