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 26th October 2014

27/10/2014

0 Comments

 
Another fine day and another brand new permission!

Steve, Rob and I arrived at a permission that we thought was unobtainable.
No, not the stuff they were mining for in Avatar!

Background
Ironically, whilst detecting last week on a permission gained in January, a Land Rover pulled up and out jumped the farmer who appeared suprised about us being on the land he was renting. The landowner hadn't told him we were coming!
Anyway, after talking him through who we were and our strategy he was fine. He did say that if it wasn't for our professional approach the landowner would have knocked us back as they weren't too keen on detectorists. I quickly siezed the chance to ask him about his farm as there was evidence of Roman activity there. He said there was no problem.
I asked if we needed to ring him beforehand and he said "no... just turn up"!

New Survey Site
So, we turned up and parked at another permission as it was easier to cut through this farm to reach our intended field.

As usual the Déus' were set at standard GMP with GB set to "Tracking" for Rob and manual for my machine.
Small coils were used as we expected some ferrous contamination and the ground to be heavily mineralised.

The field is forty acres in size and has OSR that was about 3 inches in height. We carefully chose a section (section B) to survey first that we thought may have a settlement in situ. 
Signals were few and far between with bits of lead and just one dupondis being the only Roman item in this section. Some pre-decimal silver emerged and several "hot rocks" were detected showing signs of ancient activity there.

After lunch we then moved to the next section (section A) and straight away we started to find Roman coins. It wasn't long before a lovely Roman disc brooch with yellow and blue enamel was recovered then a Roman decorative belt slider with bright red enamel.
A large ingot of lead was recovered and some unfortunate soul had to lug it around for a while!

We covered less than half the field which is quite fast for us.
There's probably another 25 acres to survey if we don't get distracted by the permission next door. We'll have to have a Skype conflab to discuss the next move.

The permission next door where we parked has three large fields that are now rolled and seeded so we may be tempted to have a look there on our next sorty!

The link to the recoveries on the day 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