Also been in email correspondence with the museum, two of them want to come out with me to show them the field where I found a lot of roman coins and have a general walk about the area and fields where I detect at present, very interested in the unusual images / anomalies on google earth that I have identified
Any way back to the finds, luckily all my finds are bagged up and dated, I take images of the items found, keep the items together in bags dated and keep them in boxes. They range from common items like buttons and bits and pieces of unknown bits and bobs.
All the important ones are bagged individually and stored in containers after recording on the PAS and stored in boxes, along with the other “keepers”
I add hyperlinks to the images of group finds to my excel database so can go back over and review, also individual images of the recorded items and important ones with hyperlinks to a picture database and to the PAS
I have been reviewing items back to 2015 when I started detecting, found some items amongst my collection that I now know what they are and worthy of recording on the PAS
The brooch below was found in 2 parts on different days in Jan 2017 and from GPS only a metre away from each other, luckily at the time of finding I thought they were individual items not parts of a whole item, also thought modernish, I did keep them but in different lots.
As said, now I know a lot more and remember seeing something similar in Hattatt’s book of brooches and realised what it was, a copper alloy sandal type skeuomorphic plate brooch
I have come across some bag seals, buckles, and some other items.
Livery buttons, vessel fragments a very nice army cap badge 1874 to 1881, a couple of pendants and a purse bar handle, I thought at the time was a horse bridle part, some of these I will record on the PAS once I’ve taken better images
A few other items
Regards Steve
I do record the important bits like where, when & what, but not much more than that.