April 7, 2012

GOLD!!!  Clarence found gold today! We're waiting for the ID to be confirmed but we believe it to be a Celtic Cunnobelin Quarter Stater*.  He and I were the only ones in this particular field this afternoon.  Suddenly, I heard his voice over our two way radios say "I've got gold!".  I didn't even answer him, just picked up my detector and shovel and hightailed it over to where he was.  The amazing part is, this was the third field we had been into this afternoon and all were really quiet.  You get to a point where you just pray for a signal, good or bad, just to be sure your detector is working.  We all stayed out until 8pm to search for another one.  No such luck. We all remarked that as tired as we were, when news of a gold find came everyone suddenly had lots of energy and hustled to get up to that field and search for another one. I forgot the pedometer this morning so let's just say I walked 43,217 steps or  17 miles.  At least it felt like that much.

*Celtic Cunnobelin(tribe) quarter stater (denomination) coin