Any of the old gang still visit this newsgroup anymore?
Theo
Joe Roberts
this side of the water) get a thrill hearing about your amazing finds.
Joe
Theo
Theo
ex-group, it has shed the mortal coil, it is bereft of life!
Joe Roberts
It truly does resemble a bird in that way.
It has also kicked the bucket, bought the farm, gone to the happy hunting
ground, gone deep six, gone to the great beyond, and is pushing up daisies.
Are there no more coins in the British earth?
Joe
Theo
"Joe Roberts" <cdex3_at_comcast.net> wrote in message
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Enough for me - I came back today from a 4 hour search of one of my better
sites. I found five silver hammered coins, four Roman denarii and a Celtic
silver unit.
Not counting 100 shot gun cartridge ends, half a pound of lead and 32
miscellaneous
bits of scrap!
Best thing is the fact that this site has been supposedly previously
"detected to death" by at least three
detectors clubs!
Joe Roberts
> "Joe Roberts"
>> (...)
> > Are there no more coins in the British earth?
> >
> > Joe
>
> Enough for me - I came back today from a 4 hour search
> of one of my better sites. I found five silver hammered coins,
> four Roman denarii and a Celtic silver unit.
> Not counting 100 shot gun cartridge ends, half a pound of lead
> and 32 miscellaneous bits of scrap!
> Best thing is the fact that this site has been supposedly previously
> "detected to death" by at least three detectors clubs!
Beautiful job, well done. It always surprises me how sometimes folks
apparently haven't "read" the terrain, to figure out where foot traffic
might have gone. You found something that others have overlooked.
One time in Massachusetts (USA) I was searching along a path, with not much
being found. I noticed how the path was going in a semicircle around a low
rise. It just made sense that some folks would have taken the shortcut over
the little rise, rather than taking the longer route along the path, so I
headed up that way. A few feet away up the hill I came up with a silver
1875 Half Dollar, about five inches down. It was an easy find. I
speculated that some chap might have had his hands in his pockets when
strolling easily along the path, but had had to take them out to balance
himself when ascending the hill -- so out fell the coin. It was hardly
worn, so it must have been lost there when almost new. Back then, it
represented half a day's wages in the cotton and woolen mills of the town,
so it might not have been a trivial loss when the chap reached home.
Your ability to "read" the terrain probably helped in your finds, where
others missed them. Congratulations.
Many of us over here are amazed at the antiquity of the items you find.
What a story they could tell.
Cheers,
Joe
Dave Emerson
<snip>
> I came up with a silver 1875 Half Dollar,
> Many of us over here are amazed at the antiquity of the items you find.
1875? Yes, that's nearly new.
"Yanks think 200 years is a long time & we think 200 miles is a long way."
--
Dave
ex Motorcycle Maintenance Workshop
http://tinyurl.com/4mhaw
macbull
Great story! Thanx for sharing it with us.
Joe Roberts
> "Theo" wrote:
> > "Joe Roberts" wrote:
> >> (...)
> > > Are there no more coins in the British earth?
>
> > > Joe
>
> > Enough for me - I came back today from a 4 hour search
> > of one of my better sites. I found five silver hammered coins,
> > four Roman denarii and a Celtic silver unit.
> > Not counting 100 shot gun cartridge ends, half a pound of lead
> > and 32 miscellaneous bits of scrap!
> > Best thing is the fact that this site has been supposedly previously
> > "detected to death" by at least three detectors clubs!
>
> Beautiful job, well done. It always surprises me how sometimes folks
> apparently haven't "read" the terrain, to figure out where foot traffic
> might have gone. You found something that others have overlooked.
Regarding the 'half a pound of lead' finds ...
I'd read some time ago that the Romans enclosed their burials (and perhaps
caches, too) in Britain with lead casings and coverings.
What shapes were the lead pieces in? Round, like musket balls? Or perhaps
cuttings and snippings from lead sheets?
The fact that there's so much of it suggests that it might have been scraps
from some kind of enterprise there.
Joe
Joe Roberts
"Theo" wrote:
> I came back today from a 4 hour search of one of my better
> sites. I found five silver hammered coins, four Roman denarii
> and a Celtic silver unit.
> Not counting 100 shot gun cartridge ends, half a pound of lead
> and 32 miscellaneous bits of scrap!
Theo, what were some of the shapes of the pieces of lead?
Snipped scraps of lead? Musket balls?
If snipped scraps from a larger sheet of lead, how would they have been used
before they were deposited there?
Joe