Today was a Lucky Dog Day!!! First of all, the sun came out and the wind was light. It was really cold this morning, the skylight in our bathroom was totally frozen over. By 1pm, we were out in the field with five layers of clothes on. By 3pm, my jacket and fleece vest were unzipped to cool down and I was considering leaving a couple of layers in the middle of the field to pick up later. Clarence, Bruce and I stayed out until 7:30 tonight. To top it off, there was a gorgeous sunset tonight.
We were in a field that had just been rolled and planted and no mud. We spent the entire time on one field and had lots of targets to dig. Besides the usual greenies, buttons, bits of lead and about a hundred shotgun shell primers, we three made some outstanding find. Clarence started it off with a broken Celtic gold coin. We are guessing about 1/3 to 1/2 of the coin remained. The rest is probably still out there in the field. Then he found two hammered silver coins. Bruce found his first ever milled silver coin. This one is a William III that has been folded into a love token. I finished up the afternoon with my first ever fibular brooch. Normally, we think of these as Roman but this one is huge and knobby and might turn out to be Saxon.
Update to previous finds: I found out today that the red enamaled brooch I found was not Roman from Celtic from the 1st Century. It is the first ever Celtic brooch found by anyone in our club here in Colchester. I also found out today that the mystery coin weight I found was actually a trade weight from Henry VIII era
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