stargazer wrote: Wed Feb 12, 2025 8:36 pm
Well I've been digging for over 15 yrs in Lancashire, mainly east Lancashire. But I've been digging around Lancaster, Preston, Blackburn, Ribchester and Sawley. And I've still only found ONE hammered coin - a Commonwealth penny and that was in my home town. That's why I used to travel over into Yorkshire on numerous Sundays, to get half decent finds.
I hunt the Ribble valley and also Bowland half of my permissions are in the historic west riding of Yorkshire albeit now classed as Lancashire since the 1974 boundary inanity.
Admittedly I have found more hammereds in the old west riding than Lancashire proper. This includes the aforementioned Sawley which again is historically Yorkshire not Lancashire. You.must have been unlucky pal as I've had a fair few hammereds in the Sawley area from large denomination Charles I's to medieval Scottish pennies. The HARV group have been focused there recently and I heard there where finds ranging from the iron age onwards including Roman coins too.
I've hunted the also aforementioned Ribchester too and though I haven't had much joy with the Roman stuff saying it's an old fort and vicus, i have though had plenty of hammereds off there and I know other detectorists who hunt there have also founf plenty too.
I do believe we also have a couple of Lancastrian detectorists on this forum who do seem to pull out some nice coins from time to time.
As I say, it doesn't compete with areas in the south and to the east but the county is rich in history and the potential for the spectacular appearing out of the ground should never be underestimated. You just need more patience than nother detectorists and also an acceptance that you'll get wetter too.
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