What ho.
I may have mentioned on here before about a permission I've only visited twice before today. First time out, a button was the only target in the entire field, in contrast to which the field on the second outing was full of sliced and diced aluminium, iron, and what I thought was horse muck but learned today was actually out of donkeys. Not that that makes any difference - it still gave off a signal, whichever flavour of nag produced it and it only added to the undetectability of the field.
On the basis that surely not all of the fields could be so depressingly poor, I fired up the Jenks and had a pop at a third field this morning. I'd put a 9-iron in the bag so that if the detecting was just as bad as before I could always chip rock-hard nuggets of donkey doings at Jenks by way of amusement. But in the event I needed no recourse to that particular avenue of pleasure as this field actually came up trumps for me
Nothing special surfaced in the opening few overs, just lead, a few buttons and, for some reason, some boken scissor tongs, possibly used for sugar. That was a first and a foot away I came across one of the finger hole ends.
Wandering back to base for a livener, I cut a corner in my haste to get refreshed and had a lively little signal which had to be dug and to my total delight a Florin d'or coinweight turned out to be the culprit
There! I knew this field has something to offer and my snifter was enjoyed with a happy smile (well ok, it always is, but in this case my "gin grin" was broader than usual). The weight dates 1350-1550 so we finally have some decent history to play with When play was resumed I concentrated on the coin weight area and was soon rewarded by a lovely little medieval buckle which, dating 1250-1400, could be contemporary with the weight but it could also push the history back a little more. Nothing else came up by close of play but I was well happy with the strike rate
Pip pip
