Having taken a long trip to where I think there's got to be a beach hoard (see the two hammered silver pennies with sharp edges so never circulated + one has signs of being fused to other coins) the sand was in so high you were walking uphill going down to the low water mark.
Total finds 2 pence and an old halfpenny.
Gave it up as a bad job and headed for Swansea Jack territory near Swansea, S.Wales.
Still to much sand so hit the pebble ridge at the top of the beach. Apart from the usual modern (clad) coins, a nice twenty two carat wedding band came up, a rolled gold on silver St.Christoper and a bigger silver one. Interesting finds were a Victorian shilling of 1874 and a 1816 Bullhead sixpence both of which should clean up well.
The old shape bit of pewter is a Queen Anne 1702-14 spoon handle (you can just make out the bust between the letters A and R.... Anne Regina). I would have been over the moon with this if there had been more of it. The stones on the beach smash everything in time, on land it would have been chopped up by the plough.
Total finds 2 pence and an old halfpenny.
Gave it up as a bad job and headed for Swansea Jack territory near Swansea, S.Wales.
Still to much sand so hit the pebble ridge at the top of the beach. Apart from the usual modern (clad) coins, a nice twenty two carat wedding band came up, a rolled gold on silver St.Christoper and a bigger silver one. Interesting finds were a Victorian shilling of 1874 and a 1816 Bullhead sixpence both of which should clean up well.
The old shape bit of pewter is a Queen Anne 1702-14 spoon handle (you can just make out the bust between the letters A and R.... Anne Regina). I would have been over the moon with this if there had been more of it. The stones on the beach smash everything in time, on land it would have been chopped up by the plough.
Were you using a PI?
