Week Two - Friday

As I predicted, there was no time to write before we left England on Saturday.  However, we did have a full day of metal detecting on Friday, our final day for this trip. It was another 8am - 7pm day. Once again, there was no rain but plenty of strong winds.  Clarence and I were on "the button field", just across the road from where the Gold Roman was found last week. One of the guys with us found a silver Roman coin, his first, and it was a great way to end his first England hunt.  Clarence and I found about a hundred buttons, mostly common four holers, but a few good ones, too.  I found another livery button and a military button.  Clarence found a vessica seal (for sealing wax) and three interesting tokens from businesses in Colchester and London. He didn't know what they were until we were cleaning up our finds that night. We had no time to research them so that will give us something to do when we pick them up next Spring.  Oh come on, you all knew we were going back next year! Next Spring will be another "Barn Hunt" for two weeks in April, 2012.

After cleaning the finds, having a wonderful roast chicken dinner with our hostess, and getting a hot shower, we got to work breaking down four detectors and gear and getting two and a half weeks of dirty laundry packed again.  We packed and re-packed to make the 50# limit before giving up at 12:30am. We just decided to pay the extra fee and get some sleep before the alarm went off at 6am. When we got to Heathrow, the airline scale said we were two kg under on one bag and one kg over on the other.  I asked the person at the desk if there was any room for grace and she replied " I didn't see anything".  Thank you, United Airlines!

This has been a great trip.  We're glad we decided to stay for two weeks instead of one.  Clarence found his Saxon sceat and I found my silver Roman on the second week, so it was definitely worth the extra effort.  Saturday will be a very  l-o-n-g plane trip but it will be good to be home again.