dooly Posted May 25, 2009 Report Share Posted May 25, 2009 Hi all .. and now for the next instalment of my detecting mission Sorry i have no photos but i was not expecting to go detecting .. yesterday i got a call form one of my friendly farmers who asked me if i could pop along as he had lost one of the taps which swhich on the water supply to one of his fields as he is going to put potato's into the field for the first time in 9 years .. and had forgot where the tap was !! after lots of plow shares and junk i finally found it !! (over two hours of searching) and he was well pleased I can tell you !! so off i pop-ed to a bit of headland which had been plowed and rolled but not seeded (most of my land is in crop now) and check this little haul out (not bad for a couple of hours eh!) The first good find was this little cut half hammered penny of Henry III (1216-1272) it is a long cross type (1247-1272) class 3A (without scepter) I have not been able to work out the mint or monerer at the moment but i will get there. The next find was this strap end .. not sure of the date as i have not found many of them before (probably medieval) Then a nice bit of foreign silver .. not sure where it is from but looks like Netherlands or similar I then moved towards the hill and got a faint signal which turned out to be a early looking coin and i think it could be Celtic which would be very unusual for my neck of the woods !!! Sorry for the bad scan but the head is very heavy embossed Reverse seems to show a bull or something ! After the buzz of finding this i concentrated on this area and the next find (and my final one before my batteries ran out) was this enameled broach/button .. with a nice blue swirl .. it looks like it could be roman or Celtic but i will leave the identification to the experts when i take it to the finds liaison officer for recording well hoped you liked that as much as i did happy hunting dooly :devil: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottO Posted May 25, 2009 Report Share Posted May 25, 2009 i must try that, mioght be some nice things here. love the coins the dutch one looks very nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syzygy Posted May 25, 2009 Report Share Posted May 25, 2009 Hi all ..Then a nice bit of foreign silver .. not sure where it is from but looks like Netherlands or similar ...happy hunting dooly :devil: Terrific report! That one looks like a Netherland 2 stuivers - LINK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dooly Posted May 25, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 25, 2009 Terrific report! That one looks like a Netherland 2 stuivers - LINK Thanks for the link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedeadpoint Posted May 26, 2009 Report Share Posted May 26, 2009 STILL jealous at all of your finds! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottishmoney Posted May 26, 2009 Report Share Posted May 26, 2009 The coins are nice, but I really like that Celtic swirl broach. That is a tremendous find, especially with the inlay in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dooly Posted May 26, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 26, 2009 The coins are nice, but I really like that Celtic swirl broach. That is a tremendous find, especially with the inlay in it. Cheers .. The find are booked into the finds liaison officer on Thursday and i should pick up my Bronze age winged axe head, neolithic scraper and my roman trumpet broach up .. lets see what they think of them .. Northumberland the forgotten county Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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