Pete e
Elite Member
I have not been out much of late, in part due to the terribly wet weather we have been having and also due to fore filling a promise to the Boss to get some decorating done around the house.
However with a large chuck of the decorating done, and a favourable weather forecast in hand, I decided to attend a dig Sunday gone with my local club.
We were in the hills above our town detecting on sheep pasture.
I have a permission in the area, and generally it makes for a quiet days detecting, but can throw up something special now and again.
And so it was Sunday.
The targets were few and far between, and what was coming up were things like the odd toasted copper (not many!) and a few tombac buttons...
Mid morning a rumour swirled around the field a nice Roman Denarius had come up, which spurred everyone on a bit.
An hour or so later, with lunch firmly on my mind, I had another very unremarkable, fairly shallow signal showing up a little elongated but on the centre line of the 2D trace on the Manticore...
It was so unremarkable, I did not even note the TDI as I thought it was going to be another bit of scrap.
You could therefore have knocked me down with a feather when no more than 3" or 4" down, out pops the object below, a late Iron Age/ early Roman artifact about 2000 years old give or take a hundred years. Its cosmetic pestle aka a "woad grinder" used to grind "makeup" notably the blue woad face paint apparently beloved by the ancient Britons...
It's a long time bucket lister find for me, so I was to say the least over the moon, especially given its condition.
The rest of the day returned to "unremarkable" but I was last off the field hoping to chance on something else, but it wasn't to be...
I think this is a huge part of our hobby in that we are potentially only ever one spade of earth away from something really special, no matter how bleak a session seems to be..
However with a large chuck of the decorating done, and a favourable weather forecast in hand, I decided to attend a dig Sunday gone with my local club.
We were in the hills above our town detecting on sheep pasture.
I have a permission in the area, and generally it makes for a quiet days detecting, but can throw up something special now and again.
And so it was Sunday.
The targets were few and far between, and what was coming up were things like the odd toasted copper (not many!) and a few tombac buttons...
Mid morning a rumour swirled around the field a nice Roman Denarius had come up, which spurred everyone on a bit.
An hour or so later, with lunch firmly on my mind, I had another very unremarkable, fairly shallow signal showing up a little elongated but on the centre line of the 2D trace on the Manticore...
It was so unremarkable, I did not even note the TDI as I thought it was going to be another bit of scrap.
You could therefore have knocked me down with a feather when no more than 3" or 4" down, out pops the object below, a late Iron Age/ early Roman artifact about 2000 years old give or take a hundred years. Its cosmetic pestle aka a "woad grinder" used to grind "makeup" notably the blue woad face paint apparently beloved by the ancient Britons...
It's a long time bucket lister find for me, so I was to say the least over the moon, especially given its condition.
The rest of the day returned to "unremarkable" but I was last off the field hoping to chance on something else, but it wasn't to be...
I think this is a huge part of our hobby in that we are potentially only ever one spade of earth away from something really special, no matter how bleak a session seems to be..
