Week One - Wednesday

Well, we didn't beat the Chicago guys to the newly rolled field this morning.  They beat us there by 30 minutes and had found several hammered silver coins before we showed up.  This afternoon, most of the guys moved to the two fields behind our initial choice.  I was detecting away, concentrating on the sounds in my headphones and watching the ground when I turned to find a tractor behind me and not slowing down.  I quickly moved across the field and another fellow and I watched him rolling the field for a while.  Then we decided to go back and detect again the area where the hammered silvers had been found that morning.  Keeping one eye on tractor sharing the field, we were finding new targets that the tractor had stirred up.  I found half of a crotal bell.  When I showed the fellow who was detecting nearby, he pulled another half out of his finds pouch.  We think they may be a match but won't know until the are both cleaned up.

I'm so glad I went back onto that field as I found my first ever Treasure Item.  It is a complete (both sides) Queen Ann Marriage Buttons (cuff link). They are silver and  from 1704. They have a profile of Queen Ann on each piece. They will probably be disclaimed and I should get to keep them, but they need to progress through the treasure process.  To clarify, it is one cuff link but it has a round silver button with Queen Ann on both the inside and outside part of the clunk and the two pieces are joined together. 

Clarence had a slower day today with only buttons, greenies and assorted bits and pieces of lead and bronzey bits.  The only other thing worthy of mention (?) is that there were no sufficient trees or bushes that weren't in a deep ditch or next to a steep slope leading into a deep pond.  Why is this important you may ask?  Try being the only girl on fields all day with 15 guys and you can probably figure it out.