We visited our favourite 7-acre field that has been recently drilled with wheat, which provided perfect conditions for fieldwalking and detecting.
The weather promised to be quite nice with a gentle breeze and sunshine.
The first artefact was a Medieval iron casket key, followed by a mixture of Roman and Medieval items.
One belt mount was recovered with some organic material attached to it.
A lovely Saxon pin emerged, with a sceat, two styca's, three Roman fibula fragments, two hammered coins, a Medieval lock, and other artefacts.
The sceatta is in extremely good condition and is described as being a wonderful masterpiece of early Saxon art. The reverse of this coin is said to represent the battle between good (the bird) and evil (the snake), with several stages of this shown on series Q coins. The example here shows the last stage with the bird trampling the snake, cross before, interpreted as good triumphing over evil. It dates to 710 - 760 AD
One of the styca's looks to be Aerhelred II, 841 to 850 AD, with the moneyer being Forthred.
High definition images of the finds can be seen here.
The weather promised to be quite nice with a gentle breeze and sunshine.
The first artefact was a Medieval iron casket key, followed by a mixture of Roman and Medieval items.
One belt mount was recovered with some organic material attached to it.
A lovely Saxon pin emerged, with a sceat, two styca's, three Roman fibula fragments, two hammered coins, a Medieval lock, and other artefacts.
The sceatta is in extremely good condition and is described as being a wonderful masterpiece of early Saxon art. The reverse of this coin is said to represent the battle between good (the bird) and evil (the snake), with several stages of this shown on series Q coins. The example here shows the last stage with the bird trampling the snake, cross before, interpreted as good triumphing over evil. It dates to 710 - 760 AD
One of the styca's looks to be Aerhelred II, 841 to 850 AD, with the moneyer being Forthred.
High definition images of the finds can be seen here.
RSS Feed
