Your bucket lister

[Etruscan_Toad]

Great thread. I admire anyone who can narrow down their bucket list to a single find. If I had to choose 3 they would be:

-Gold stater
-Bronze Age axehead
-Anything Viking made of precious metal

[Makro 2]

(1)...Heraldic Horse Pendant Shield Shape.

(2)...Decorative Annular Broach.

(3)...Cromwell 1650 Silver Common Wealth Half Groat .

Regards.
M2

[olstonsurf]

Palstave axe head for me

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A Neolithic polished stone axe head,preferably a greenstone one from Langdale,Cumbria,although any would suffice.

Have you been to the Langdale scree slope?
If not you must.
The scale of industry is unbelievable!
There is a little recess/cave that looks to have been worked to accommodate the men who quarryed the stone.
My friend who lives in kendal has an axe blank from the slope. I now would like to visit the Langdale axe honing stone in Gloucestershire.
He took me to the scree slope when we were rock climbing, I took a few chips of stone, not an axe head but still bits that were worked. We ran down the scree slope it is huge!

[Stubble trouble]

Have you been to the Langdale scree slope?
If not you must.
The scale of industry is unbelievable!
There is a little recess/cave that looks to have been worked to accommodate the men who quarryed the stone.
My friend who lives in kendal has an axe blank from the slope. I now would like to visit the Langdale axe honing stone in Gloucestershire.
He took me to the scree slope when we were rock climbing, I took a few chips of stone, not an axe head but still bits that were worked. We ran down the scree slope it is huge!

No, I haven’t, I really must make a point of making a visit though,it’s a stunning part of the country,we love the Lakes.
My friend was lucky enough to find one of these axe types on one of my permissions.
Thanks for the suggestion,
Rich.

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No, I haven’t, I really must make a point of making a visit though,it’s a stunning part of the country,we love the Lakes.
My friend was lucky enough to find one of these axe types on one of my permissions.
Thanks for the suggestion,
Rich.

Well that is one lucky man, and an unfortunate man who lost it all those years ago.
I believe they were more of a ceremonial item or a symbol of wealth because the Langdale stone was of poor quality compared to other stone types.
Though when polished and wet it has a translucent effect. Maybe they believed it held some kind of power?

[Macsen Wledig]

When I first started I was given a permission which I sat researching it like an autist hoping to glean some info that would lead to a first good find. Rogjt down to finding the field and hill names.
One was named "Gawker hill" which apparently is Norse in origin and where we get the term "gawking at" (to stare at) which makes sense as from the summit of that hill you can see the country for miles in every direction. Amd so I thought it only a matter of time before my first Viking find csme up. Nigh on 4 years later and I've not had so much as a sniff of the old Norsemen. So anything Viking is high on my list.
Bronze age relics where always big bucket listers. Couple of axeheads and a spearhead too, one of those lord of the rings style le tene swords would really complete that particular set.
AS coin has to be up there now too having drooled over a few on here over the past couple of years.
Carausius Denarius. Love any denarius to be fair, only found three and they where when I first started but Carausius is top of that list still

[cvno]

I've been very blessed over the many years of detecting 43 and counting and when I started I never imagined finding so many wonderful coins and artifacts so top of my list would be a Roman gold coin or a piece of BA jewelry.A fellow detecting colleague asked me a couple of years ago what I would like to find next and I said a Saxon silver coin and a posy ring I found both and the ring within a couple of weeks so sometimes the detecting god's are listening good hunting everyone Rob

So dreams do come true

[Barbossa76]

Gold hammered for me

[Core]

Thrymsa and Viking penny for me.