Day Four

We started our day on a new field that has never been detected before. It is along the road to Colchester which is the same route as the old roads. Previous gold coins have been found in the area and on either side of the road. We had great hopes today...but it wasn't to be. We did find some interesting doo dads, a trade weight, bale seals, greenies, buttons, and some things we were hoping were really special and old. Turns out a lot of our treasure items were trash. I thought I had found a cut quarter hammered silver...nope...wrong color. The jury is still out on what it really is. I still think it's neat and it is really tiny. I found it in a dirt clod.

We enjoyed another sunny day today. The clouds came in about 2pm and the wind kicked up. I thought we might get some rain but it didn't happen. It definitely got colder though.

Today for lunch we had Cornish pasties and hot cream of chicken soup. They have the strangest assortment of crisps (chips) here...steak and onion, chicken, shrimp, very odd stuff. I have a new favorite food..lemon curd on our morning toast. Think the middle, lemony part of a lemon meringue pie and you have lemon curd. Yummy!

Another brand new field tomorrow. We got chased out of the abby field by the tractor. The farmer is planting potatoes so looks like we are done there this season.

That's all for now. More tomorrow. I hope we have more finds to report then.