Royal Wootten Bassett Rally 10 March 2012

[robert83]

Just been past the farm looks like plenty of land ,the road near the site should be fun

[John W]

Having trouble with the post code, Could someone please PM it too me.

Many thanks

John

[robert83]

Pm sent

[biro]

Just a thought, but how many acres do you need for 330 plus people metal detecting. I can imagine someone scanning an area say of 35 yards x 35 yards, half an acre while they are on the rally. So you would need 150 acres plus, at the moment to be comfortable.

[Red Arrow]

I think we all have a lesson to learn on this one

We will know this time tomorrow if their was enough land and whether to apply again next year

Lets hope we all have a great day

See you all their tomorrow morning

[Dave8472]

Good luck to all who are going

Dave

[Broadsword]

I found tin foil, cow medicine. Well done to those who got anything.

[Indy]

I also found tin foil and cow medicine tubes, and ammo, buttons, coke/hot rocks (was using the Deus), bit of a horse shoe and other bits of junk.
Looked out for Martin and Firecat222 wearing their SDG T's, but didn't spot them.
There were a lot of people but there was masses of land for everyone.

[robert83]

My finds consisted of a musket ball , 2 small buckles and if the cow medicine tubes looked abit like big super glue tubes then I also found sum enjoyed it though

[Indy]

if the cow medicine tubes looked abit like big super glue tubes then I also found sum

Thats them - for the treatment of pregnant cows, or so it says on some of the tubes.

[Red Arrow]

Found one George II coin and some buttons but really enjoyed it

Plenty of land to detect, I know of 5 fields I did not go in

I saw a number of finds come up including Roman and Hammered

People were very friendly and parking was no problem with room for more!

[doglikesparky]

Nice day nice people well organised..lots of military looking people dressed for combat

Not many finds, coke, coke,coke, cow tubes, coke, tin foil...oh did i mention coke

i did have a bronz age axe head though.

[firecat222]

Hi, that has to be one of the best organized rallies I have been to.
Easy parking,good toilets,good hot food with free tea /coffee ,loads of land to search and a FLO in attendence.
Just a shame the finds were thin on the ground. .
The wife and myself only had 1 musket ball,2 bullets ,1 button and an old brass bodied syringe between us!
Just been reminded my find of the day was a mobile phone that someone had dropped that day and we handed to a steward,hope the owner got it back. Look forward to the next one....better luck with finds next year.Be interesting to know how much was raised for charity and which charity,I forgot to ask?
Regards Firecat and Jackie

[doglikesparky]

The only downfall with the Rally was a few cars got broken into during the morning off...I still cant beleve there are people with the gaul to do this with 300 people around.

[John W]

Weather was Perfect, Good company from all, FREE cups of tea, Raffle, Stalls, PAS.
There was loads going on.


I had a good day,




Recorded with PAS on the day, Colchester one piece, Late Iron Age to early Roman.



John

[general1]

My summary of the day:

Event Hospitality - spot on

Weather - spot on

Land volume - spot on

Company - spot on

Finds - not spot on (and old 50p and some king of grocery coin token.

hightlight of the day - Winning the raffle

Lowlight of the day - i won the Spink 2012 i had bought 2 weeks earlier

gererally had a good day and good to some familir faces from the SDG and had about 10 form our own club go.

Seb (doglikesparky) and I were the last to leave, had a quick chat with the farmer and a lovely sunset to round of a good day out!

[Seanthecelt]

Hi all, my main quibble with the organisers was their advert(s) consistently urged book early to avoid disappointment whilst there was clearly no limit to the numbers they would allow onto the site. The pic of the stubble -field posted by John W was at the fagend of the day, 20 minutes after K.O. that same view would have shown 50 to 60 detectorists! A similar number were on the adjacent stubble -field. I found nothing except a few lead bag-seals, a possible copper mount and a livery button. Admittedly there were a couple of remote fields but they were almost a short busride away, if anyone went there they were committed for the day. A 3 hour journey back to east Kent left me feeling it probably hadn't been worth the effort , or the cost (please spare me any special pleading as it" was for charity".)

[Wansdyke44]

Plenty of space, no significant finds. Couple of Georgian pennies. More mastitus tubes for the collection! Well organised and busy. Never seen so many swingers in the daylight before

[oliver]

Hi all went to the rally lots of fields but i stuck to the two stubble fields found two medieval buckles and one complete long cross silver penny and half a long cross silver penny did not find much else couple of buttons and little ointment tubes in number a friend of mine found part of a Bronze Age axe and a fellow i know found a nice James the first hammered silver coin had a good day out.

[Broadsword]

A really well organised rally with plenty of marshalls and free tea and coffee - I found nothing but junk, not even a modern coin! strange.

Nice to meet so many like minded people wandering around and glad to see so many turned up which made money for the rotary club charity.

Good to see the Bournemouth bunch in good form again, happy days. Well done to the NCMD treasurer who found the hammered - a nice liitle find considering it was so quiet.

all in all, a great day out in the sun and plenty of excercise. Will I go again, sadly not unless a new site is found. Thanks for a well organised day out.