your posts always show a lot of finds from the Medieval period, like the crotal bells and sack seals and various outher bits and pieces, obviously the areas your detecting have seen a lot of activity, I know you have posted your fair share of hammered but can't understand why you haven't found more I have only ever found one crotal bell complete and one that was broken, and only a handfull of sack seals, I know these two items date to post Medieval but a lot of yours are from the middle or earlier, do you have any thoughs or are you happy with the amount of hammered you are getting
tyre kicker said:Can't understand why you don't get a lot more hammered coins
I myself don't think the problem is with the fields, its with the people that in the middle ages who did(not) live there for some reason. Where people are the coins will be lost, and the silver pennies were just coins back then. The must be a reason why one field or location would turn up more than an other. I would think it has an direct link to how many people ever came onto the land. Some land, like in Holland, were under water in the middle ages, or were swamps which were later drained. There could be all so many reasons why other land, used by the Romans for instance, was never used again until recently and many era's just passed by without farmers or people on the land.CRUSADER said:I wondered this myself. I have had many medieval buckles, sexfoils, cloth seals, jettons etc & very little hammered of these two fields. It seems to be mostly Roman Bronzes or nothing. Its about average (for our fields) for hammered, so I can't complain. I just wish I had a market or fair site, never done one of these!tyre kicker said:Can't understand why you don't get a lot more hammered coins
