Hiya All, Thanks For The Add.

To CCF , what type of treasure hunting are you into ?

Hi T-Bop.
Sorry for being so vague, I metal detect. I love detecting arable land, but most of the land I get to detect is pasture. So quite a lot of the finds I get come out of the ground in nice condition. Only had one piece of Treasure in 30 odd years of searching. A lovely double inscription 15th century gold finger ring, that's now in a museum. I do find lots of nice coins and quite often are difficult to i.d so hopefully you guys can help me out every now and then.

Haha..BStauss3, which abbey were you grave robbing in

Thanks coinfrog.
I will try to post a few for i.d s

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It wasn't grave robbing, we were a sanctioned archaeological dig. With everything from undergraduate non-Archaeological students to PhD candidates.

It was Bordesley Abbey... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bordesley_Abbey and http://www.forgemill.org.uk/bordesley.htm



That year, we were digging in the graveyard. The monks really didn't care much about the mortal bodies. We found them right side up, wrong side up, backwards, every which way. We found bodies comingled and separate. They had removed two bodies with a small area between them, maybe 9" (20 cm or so) apart. And the head of the graveyard dig (#2 on the site) says "There's nothing there I'll take it out with a pickaxe". Two swipes and C R you N C H...

Of course, the following day was the open house for the townspeople and the path faced right at the top of the skull.

All morning long, the townspeople filed by and - in that broad Midlands accent would nudge each other ... "Look there 'Arry, that bloke's been pick-axed". The head of the dig made it from opening (8) to about 8:45 before she fled. The rest of us gave up about 9:30... just too hard to pretend to dig and not laugh.


I never found anything numismatic, although somebody did find a 1700s coin at the bottom of a trench - made one of the archaeologists very proud because we had dug this out all summer based on his eye calling it a color difference nobody else could see. The coin proved him right.

We were the year that found one of the 14" square sandstone foundations for the mill (see http://www.reading.ac.uk/bordesley/...s/16big.gif).

Not me - the dig leadership rapidly figured out my level of skill (none) and had me carrying buckets of tile from the spoil pile to the wash station.

http://www.reading.ac.uk/bordesley/Watermills.htm

The beer was good - although it took me several weeks to figure out that our local helper was doing his community service and not the greatest role model.

Ah, my misspent youth...

I've always been fascinated with metal detecting but never enough to try it for real, cool find on the ring!

Welcome to CCF. Please post pics when you got them.