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Sunday 30th December 2018

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The last survey of 2018 saw us return to a long-standing Roman favourite that has produced some wonderful coins and artefacts during 20 visits since March 2014.

The first field we had a look at was drilled with wheat and revealed a couple of fragments of Roman pottery and a few coins.
The field next to did have potatoes in it but it was too rough to search there so we looked at another field nearby.

This produced a very small hammered and one piece of Medieval pottery.
This was the opportunity that Rob was looking for to try out his new toy; a hexacopter drone fitted with a 4K camera!
Footage from this inaugural flight appears to be quite awesome considering it was carried out in a 25mph breeze! The footage can be seen here.

The last field we looked at was drilled with OSR but the crop had failed so it was re-drilled with wheat. This field has a Roman road running through it with a Romano-British settlement nearby. The search area had several fragments of Roman building material and pottery. As expected, a number of Roman coins and artefacts were recovered.

One artefact that was recovered stood out as being a rare fragment of a Roman glass bangle. This was the highlight of the day and one of the rarest artefacts we have ever recovered amongst some memorable finds over the past 8 years.

HD images of the finds can be seen here.


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