2 Saxon Sceat kinda day

[laplander]

Doing a 10 day hunt in the U.K. and having a blast with great finds, and a super crew. We went hoard hunting today where a dozen Sceats had been found. I found the first one in just under a few minutes, the second took a couple hours. The T.I.D. varied a bit with the first one coming in around 10 with the second one reading 4 to 5. These are 600 A.D. Saxon silver coins that are pretty hard to find. They will be reported as treasure as an addendum to the hoard, if disclaimed by the museum I will get them back and give them a proper cleaning as they have lots of detail under the horn crust.
Field 1 recovery 4
HH Jeff

 

[unearth]

Great finds!! Sceats are on my bucket list!!! Congrats again!

 

[CT Todd]

I know where you were today and how many other detectorists had been on this hoard spot. You are a fine Detectorist. Good for you

 

[Mega]

Some lovely Sceats,found 2 recently in a radius of about 12ft suspect that other could well be in that location as well,i suspect that the variation in TID is that the silver content can vary due to the availability of silver at the time,same can be said for hammered gold coinage as well some can have a higher gold content and others actually have other metals added as well hence this can give different TID......this is the main reason i never rely on what a screen tells you,audio is king all the time in my mind.

Well done on finding those coins,i found mine and hope for some more near a DMV 'deserted medieval village',hope you find some more it could be a casual purse loss but with that amount been found thus far it does give some indication that a container of some sort in near by,could well be deep though.

 

[sgoss66]

OUTSTANDING, Jeff! I am jealous that you are across the pond hunting REALLY old dirt!!

Have a great time, my friend, and I wish you the best of luck (and good weather)!

Happy hunting!

Steve

 

[DutchGuido]

It was great to be there to witness your sceat finds. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to put my coil over the first sceat before you dug it (luckily that didn’t jinx it).

Guido

 

[Great Republic]

Nice. Sounds like fun!

 

[BigTony]

Congratulations!

That’s a good job you did finding those old coins.

For someone who doesn’t go to England, for comparisons - are they smaller than US dimes?

Tony

 

[laplander]

Congratulations!

That’s a good job you did finding those old coins.

For someone who doesn’t go to England, for comparisons - are they smaller than US dimes?

Tony

11. 7 mm's in diameter about 7/16. You could probably put 3 on a dime!

 

[BigTony]

Holly Smokes, those are small.

Thanks - now I understand.

Best of luck

 

[laplander]

Some lovely Sceats,found 2 recently in a radius of about 12ft suspect that other could well be in that location as well,i suspect that the variation in TID is that the silver content can vary due to the availability of silver at the time,same can be said for hammered gold coinage as well some can have a higher gold content and others actually have other metals added as well hence this can give different TID......this is the main reason i never rely on what a screen tells you,audio is king all the time in my mind.

Well done on finding those coins,i found mine and hope for some more near a DMV 'deserted medieval village',hope you find some more it could be a casual purse loss but with that amount been found thus far it does give some indication that a container of some sort in near by,could well be deep though.

I agree with your assessment on the ancient gold and silver coinage. this amount variation is the most I have noticed for a TID number. I also agree that audio rules ! I had 1 and 2 notched for coke so it was a near miss on the last coin you might go lower Congrats on your Sceats !
HH Jeff

 

[Spud GA]

Congrats again Jeff on the sceats!

Some of the earlier ones came up as 2 on the Nox.

 

[laplander]

Thanks Very low conductive numbers Buddy, Different than the others I have dug. Keeps you on your toes doesn't it LOL By the way I pulled 39 non ferrous target out of that patch
HH Jeff

 

[Lost In Time]

Nice coins them buddy , out of interest what settings was you suing

 

[laplander]

Nice coins them buddy , out of interest what settings was you suing

Thanks, there should be a lot of detail under the silver horn based from previous experience's, just have to wait on the PAS to see the outcome.

Field one I chose this because it handles Coke best, and after finding a faint low tone {5} I tried the target in park one, fielded 1, and field 2 and they all hit it just fine.
recovery 4
Sens 25
iron bias 0-2
ground balance 0
5 tones with factory bins
threshold 3
iron off
Large coil
didn't noise cancel no EMI and rarely do
Cheers Jeff

 

[Lost In Time]

Cheers Buddy