April 13, 2012

Our final day of detecting.  The rain held off till late this afternoon.  We went back to a farm we had been to a couple of days already these past couple of weeks. The soil is the sticky clay that sticks to your shovels, detector coils and boots.  However, each time someone has found something really good there.  By the first hour this morning, Clarence had found one teeny tiny milled silver and I had found two milled silvers.  I also found two interesting lead tokens, buttons and some modern trash.  I did better today than I had the last three or four days.  The odd thing is, all seven of us had hit this same field before and there were still good finds to be made.  It all depends on turning left or right at any given time. We came in at 2pm to clean out the van, wash mud off detectors and boots and get stuff packed up. With all the borrowing back and forth, it's time to figure out who belongs to what. Our tour operator will come by at 8pm tonight to pick up all our finds, photgraph them, submit to the museum for identification and export approval . Export licenses will take about five months so we pick up our finds on our next trip.  It was a great trip, really fun group, lots of laughter, joking, teasing, Bailey's and Advil. We will be back March 2013.
Pedometer stats (half day): 12,296 steps = 5.43 miles