I am officially on my way home from Northumberland where I’ve been holidaying for the last 10 days.
Although I had permission in the grounds of the country estate we were staying, the permission was very vague, so I didn’t want to risk going somewhere I wasn’t allowed. It was very frustrating as I’m sure there would’ve been some great finds to be had in the right places.
Because of this, the only good find that came up was the Lead Seal which is yet to be identified. The beach detecting was a little tough in places as I hadn’t searched on sand with my Deus ORX so had to do my research before hand. The wet sand was still chatting away even after I’d adjusted the settings, so I tried to stick to the dry stuff whenever possible. As you might have seen, a lovely silver link chain necklace came up, but I was disappointed as it was sticking out of the sand when my detector found it, so it was a 1/2 eyes only, 1/2 detector located. I like to be surprised you see, so being able to see what it is feels a little like cheating in my book.
Nevermind, it’s still a lovely thing. Other than the chain and various coinage, nothing too exciting emerged from the beach, I just realised how many people bury their tinfoil.
That was at least until this emerged. Yes it’s iron, yes it’s probably modern that’s fallen off a boat, or been discarded by a murderer, but I still like to think that it’s washed up after being lost from a Viking long boat after a successful raid in which many pieces of gold were collected and dispersed between themselves.
unlikely, but that’s the story I’m going to stick to. 
What do you guys think??
