"Joe Roberts"
Post by 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