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Shaun7 & I camped from thursday night until Sunday morning, but only detecting Friday & Saturday.
It was an interesting experience, about 400 detectorist spreading across the fields like ants. Within 1-2 hours the fields were covered & no mud without a foot print.
Plenty of land to do, but it was very poor land with little activity, almost definately no early cultivation on the fields, probably just parkland.
Although we didn't do so well as we could on our own land it was a nice social to met up with the 'Northern Lads' :icon_thumright:
SS, shocked me by presenting me with his recently found arrow head which is now pride of place with my other flints in a lit cabinet. THANKS SS :hello:

The finds pictured are both days:

10 Roman Bronzes
Few buttons
few bits....

Best find was a little better than expected (although it was dug broken & later glued).
Its a plated forgery of Augustus 2BC-13AD. Had it been real & complete, it would be £1000 or more coin. So a copy of a rare coin, but also turns out to be my oldest Roman coin find. (Dad having older 48BC) - the other side is not worth a photo, its a mess. The bonus was this is our 15th Roman Silver of the year, which mets our target set at the beginning of the year. This was a last target to achieve, so we are still steaming ahead for an outstanding year :headbang:

Fingers crossed for Robfinds who we left on the field today :hello:
 

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Cru'dad only spent 45 minutes with my Bother & his wife who wanted to give detecting a go!

He was trying for a roman coin on our 2nd Fav Field but had no luck.

He did get a 17th Century Token which I still have to ID :)
 

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Nice ruby :D

It was hard work but good fun ;D That roman silver turned out to be nice and old then :o
 
shaun7 said:
Nice ruby :D

It was hard work but good fun ;D That roman silver turned out to be nice and old then :o

Not so nice, but very old :icon_thumright:

Leave my ruby out of this, its a very high grade piece ;D
 
CRUSADER said:
shaun7 said:
Nice ruby :D

It was hard work but good fun ;D That roman silver turned out to be nice and old then :o

Not so nice, but very old :icon_thumright:

Leave my ruby out of this, its a very high grade piece ;D


Pilkintons special :D

Your romans all came out a lot better than mine :-\
 
:icon_thumright: wtg sweet finds
 
shaun7 said:
CRUSADER said:
shaun7 said:
Nice ruby :D

It was hard work but good fun ;D That roman silver turned out to be nice and old then :o

Not so nice, but very old :icon_thumright:

Leave my ruby out of this, its a very high grade piece ;D


Pilkintons special :D

Your romans all came out a lot better than mine :-\

a little, but its there best sides :P
 
400 detectorists :-\ thats no small rally.
Havnt you found a julius caesar coin? wouldnt that be older or am i not thinking straight :dontknow:
Anyway. Congrats on the roman and hope you had a blast.
 
ohannos said:
400 detectorists :-\ thats no small rally.
Havnt you found a julius caesar coin? wouldnt that be older or am i not thinking straight :dontknow:
Anyway. Congrats on the roman and hope you had a blast.

That was Dads find. So my oldest but not 'our' oldest.
 
davesx said:
You seem to get romans where ever you go.
Dave.

I got lucky, I sniffed out a good area with pottery before the masses realised.
 
Sounds like a great weekend and a lot of fun! Some nice finds as well and nice to get to know others. A weird question, what did you guys eat while camping, LOL? HH, Mike
 
Bavaria Mike said:
Sounds like a great weekend and a lot of fun! Some nice finds as well and nice to get to know others. A weird question, what did you guys eat while camping, LOL? HH, Mike

We eat very well. Bacon every morning, sandwiches filled with ham,cheese, salami etc, plus BBQ in the evening with every meat available :icon_thumright:

Plus huge amounts of liquid.
 
Well enjoyed the rally, just stopped Saturday night. Did manage to find two medieval buckles this aft, one may be late Saxon. Also found a plated roman silver forgery in poor condition. Here's a picture of me Cru and Shaun in the beer tent late last night.

HH robert.
 
robfinds said:
Well enjoyed the rally, just stopped Saturday night. Did manage to find two medieval buckles this aft, one may be late Saxon. Also found a plated roman silver forgery in poor condition. Here's a picture of me Cru and Shaun in the beer tent late last night.

HH robert.



Thanks Rob :D
 
shaun7 said:
robfinds said:
Well enjoyed the rally, just stopped Saturday night. Did manage to find two medieval buckles this aft, one may be late Saxon. Also found a plated roman silver forgery in poor condition. Here's a picture of me Cru and Shaun in the beer tent late last night.

HH robert.



Thanks Rob :D
No problem Shaun. :D
 
You guys look like land pirates, LOL, just kidding, a very nice group picture! So is it Rob on the left, Cru in the middle and Shaun on the right? I was drinking the Stella Artois beer when I was there, the taller cans, LOL, not sure what the pulled beer was at the local pub but it was also good! I really enjoyed the English and their culture while visiting and had a great experience, I might do it again soon. HH, Mike
 
:notworthy: :headbang: :hello2:

Finally we all got to meet :headbang: this to me was the only reason to go to the Rally, to meet you guys, just wish I could have done the hole weekkend :'( and helped shaun to get rid of all that stella :D

great to see you all, and I hope we can do it again :notworthy: hopefully on some better land :thumbsup:

Thanks for the book Rob :thumbsup:

Cru, glad you liked the arrowhead :thumbsup:

SS.
 
Silver Searcher said:
:notworthy: :headbang: :hello2:

Finally we all got to meet :headbang: this to me was the only reason to go to the Rally, to meet you guys, just wish I could have done the hole weekkend :'( and helped shaun to get rid of all that stella :D

great to see you all, and I hope we can do it again :notworthy: hopefully on some better land :thumbsup:

Thanks for the book Rob :thumbsup:

Cru, glad you liked the arrowhead :thumbsup:

SS.
Cheers SS, hope you find a field with some good finds on it using the book. :icon_thumright:
 
Looks like ya'll had a great UK Rally :icon_thumright:

Quite a number of detectorists for the event :hello2:

The local guys should go back and check the camp site area :laughing7:
 

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