What ho,
Following on from Oxgirl's Big and Green thread, I thought I'd share my eyes-only finds from yesterday (when said minces were luckily functioning as they should).
My favourite field has been ploughed and flattened and I was really looking forward to the new goodies which would hopefully have been turfed up. But almost as good as that was the fact that there was no crop to mask any non-metal surface finds and it wasn't long before pottery started turning up.
See, one thing which has puzzled me about this field is the fact that there was clearly ancient activity going on there but only two or three pieces of pottery had made themselves known in the three years I've been on it. It didn't add up. The holy grail for me was a piece of samian ware and it was while Jenks was digging a target that I noticed a red edge sticking out of a nearby clod and, at last, I had my piece of samian ware
I'm rubbish at identifying pottery at the best of times but I do think the other sherds have a lot of age to them, too. See what the FLO thinks.
The soil was unbelievably fluffy and still dry so conductivity wasn't at its best, but I still managed a couple of battered coppers, four barely recognisable grots, a squarish thing that had me thinking it was a Roman die until I cleaned it and, find of the day, a Roman steelyard weight
Bit more rain to help consolidate the soil and I rather think this field's going to come up trumps again.
Pip pip
Anyone got something for a head that feels like it's trying to separate into two equal but jagged halves, by the way?
) (Serve him right for further jelly bean witholding anyway, by the way)