In fact I’ve not been finding much at all in the last few weeks. Well nothing that exciting anyway. Yesterday I managed to get in my favourite field as it’s just been vacated by 30 young cows who have done a pretty decent job of getting rid of the grass. Shame it comes out the other side though
Avoiding the steaming and crusty divots became a bit of a chore.
An early hole gave me a complete bag seal and I thought I might have a good day. But that was the highlight. Well not even a highlight as it turns out as it ended up being a blank one despite looking like it might have a good design when I took it out
In fact the days total ended up being 3 musket balls, a large iron buckle, a copper coin and not much else.
So why write anything? Well because the copper coin ended up being an unusual one. It’s from somewhere I’d never thought in a million years I’d find in a field on this farm. It’s from
- that’s Senegal to those of you who don’t know your flags (I don’t
). Here you go...
Anyway whilst I’m here I’ll show you the highlights of my last few trips too. There was this candle holder piece from last week. They are dating on PAS as from 1300-1600 like
this more complete one, it’s a first for me.
And I had some other interesting stuff on the previous 3 visits to another field including two girl guide badges, a modern leaf shaped brooch with a few of the stones still in place, two post medieval jettons, part of a pot leg and two strap mounts, one with a bit of gilding and some leather still in the back. But no silver
. Need to keep looking
- that’s Senegal to those of you who don’t know your flags (I don’t 
thats me after a days digging 
