Priscan Archaeology
  • PA Home Page
  • PA Blogs
  • Meet The PA Team
  • PA Methodology & Techniques
  • The Badge of St Ursula
  • PA Milestones
  • Priscan Archaeological Treasures

Sunday 17th April 2016

18/4/2016

0 Comments

 
After yesterday's outing in Cumbria it was a complete change of scenery with a trip down south to a permission that we've only been to twice before.
We arrived at AELWB slightly later than planned due to a few anomalies with the satnav in our brand new support vehicle.

We met with the farmer and handed over a report of what we'd discovered over the last two visits. He'd previously asked for a report and although he was expecting the document he was absolutely taken aback by it and commented on how professional it looked.
He then started to tick off fields on a map that I had printed out and he said you need a bigger map than that! With that he said that he'd get some Estate maps for me and post them on.

We had a quick look at the "new" fields he'd indicated..... some look to have interesting features.
However, we started off in the first field we'd planned to check out.
This was newly rolled field and had lots of C13th - C14th pottery but very little in the way of metallic finds which we found quite odd.
A chap came over to us and asked what we were doing and why we were interested in that particular field. He was local and wondered what history was there.
Low and behold a second chap came over to us and asked if we had permission there.
We had a good chat and found out that he too had permission to detect there. The farmer did say to us when we arrived the first time that a "local" guy had permission there. 
We came off the field and had a good chat as well as exchanging contact details.
He'd been detecting there since 2009 and now has full written permission and has found over 300 hammered coins there. He didn't mention any artefacts, although I'm sure there will be many.

He was going to detect a field nearby and we asked him to join us in another field that looked interesting and was worked down.
It was a little sticky with the 48 hours rain they'd had previously, but we persevered.
​A hammered and a spindle whorl were some of the finds of note.

Rob and I moved to the next field which was in winter wheat and we could see that it had been directly seeded over wheat stubble without ploughing.
Four hammered coins, a lovely seal matrix, a fragment of a pilgrims ampulla and several strapends came to light. Some really nice pieces of Medieval pottery also came up.

We finished up and headed out for tea/supper and ended up at a really nice Indian with a menu with a twist. Very nice indeed!
We landed back in Lancashire at 11:35pm!!!!

Images of the days finds can be seen here.






0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Picture

    Archives

    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    July 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    April 2021
    December 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

    Picture
Home   Team   St Ursula   Artefacts  Blog