A little persistence pays off ...

[Pete e]

We are experiencing a bit of an early heat wave here in the UK at present, (80F) and I really don't like it, to the point it's making me even more grumpy than usual! lol

To make matters worse, I had been invited to a BBQ I really could not sidestep, however I thought it would be rude not to take my detector and check the grass and crop situation on one of my permissions on the way back..

Three hours of being social in this baking heat was as much as I could muster, so I slipped away quietly, and headed to a permission I had in mind.

On arriving I could see the grass was borderline too long, but the good news was that one small section of the field was in the shadow of a piece of woodland that butted up to one fence line.

After about an hour of cursing the long grass and the heat, I got a nice 30 on the Manticore. It was so nice, I fully expected it to be a ring pull.

I was therefore pleasantly surprised when 8" down, I found the little silver hammered below.

Sadly the bust is almost blank, but it's been identified by someone far more knowledgeable than me as an Elizabeth 1st Halfgroat, (ie two pence) dating to the mid to late 1500's..

 

[Dr. Dirt]

Congrats on that super oldie Pete.
Great pictures and write up too.
It’s funny how much our hunting gets stifled by pop up “have-to-do” events.

 

[markinmichigan]

WTG on that keeper, so great

 

[The Rebel]

Congratulations on that beauty!

 

[Pete e]

Congrats on that super oldie Pete.
Great pictures and write up too.
It’s funny how much our hunting gets stifled by pop up “have-to-do” events.

Have recently taken early retirement so have a lot more time these days, except I now seem the default "gofor" in the family, not that I mind too much..

 

[Pete e]

Thanks everybody, out again at the minute and the good luck is continuing! Will post the pics later...

 

[Iggyks]

Dang, it was 80+ degrees in my house all weekend! Everything's relative... beautiful coin!

 

[Pete e]

Had another good outing today but this time with a local FB group.

There were about 25 of us on a 20 acre field, on a farm where other near-by fields have been very productive for the group...

Today was a little slower, partly due to the grass being a little long, but mostly because the ground has rock hard/bone dry...

I can't complain to much though as I managed silver Edward hammered penny and another Elizabeth 1st silver hammered, this time a sixpence.
The Edward Penny is sadly broken, and both coins were covered in an oily black "gunk", possibly from being in a stubble fire in the past...

I've cleaned up the sixpence and posted it below. Its a cracker, so I am very pleased with it...The Edward is being given a soak as a start to its cleaning process.

 

[stetam]

Great finds Pete!

 

[LawrencetheMDer]

Wonderful find. Yap, pull tabs arer 30 most times for me and my Manti so great save.

 

[Kansashunter]

Incredible find, congrats.

 

[Pete e]

Wonderful find. Yap, pull tabs arer 30 most times for me and my Manti so great save.

We dig our share of pull tabs, along with canslaw, and molten aluminium blobs...The most depressing rubbish we get are "moo tubes", which tend to come up around 48...On some farms you can dig twenty to thirty in a session...

Trouble is, over here, on these sort of digs, you can't notch anything out or you risk loosing good targets..

 

[stetam]

What are moo tubes?

 

[MasonDixonMding]

Great finds! Congrats

 

[Pete e]

What are moo tubes?

They are small squeeze tube containers made of a soft alloy of some sort....along the lines of old fashioned toothpaste tubes, but much smaller.

They contained various types of veterinary ointments, but most were for use on cows udder with the ointment being applied in the milking sheds after which the tubes were discarded on the floor...Eventually the sheds were cleaned and the muck was scrapped out and spread on the fields, the tubes would end up on the fields also.

Given these practices went on for years, some fields are littered with hundreds of these "moo tubes" and they are a PIA for detectorists...

 

[History Hound 1]

Congrats on some incredible pieces of history - best of luck on future hunts