Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Day Six
Saturday morning already? We drove a little farther today to a field notorious for it's monster size and the fact it is right next to the McDonald's parking lot. At least we had restrooms and hot food for lunch today. As we drove in, Don and Marilynn spotted the Car Boot Faire across the road. This is like a big garage sale but everyone opens up the car trunk (boot), sets up their table and sells right there in the field. They even had someone giving haircuts. We started detecting while they went over to check it out. There is no such thing as a retired antique dealer and they proved it. Mindy went to try out a smaller field, with the antique dealers eventually joining her. Clarence and I gave the big field a try. Just as we headed back in for lunch, Clarence got a signal and dug a hammered silver coin. It wasn't just any hammie. This one was a Saxon penny, Aethelred II from 978AD...."rarer than hen's teeth" as our leader says. It's kind of scrunched by the plow but will straighten out nicely. We are waiting on a confirmed ID from Dr. Martin Allen of the Fitzwilliam Museum but it looks like he has found another rare one. Our club has found six Saxon pennies in eight years and Clarence has two of them! What a Lucky Dog! The rest of us found hammered silver, a 15 Century field weight, military buttons, 15C thimble, huge Georgian harness mount, 33rd Regiment button, junk buttons and greenies. It was definitely Clarence's day. He's still smiling......
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