Looks like 'triple' silver. By the way I wouldn't have found my Roman pot without a little bit of settings for best depth. The top coin was a few inches above the pot at maybe 10 inches depth. And nothing definitively Roman anywhere else in the soil. Intersections whether they're former footpaths or old roads may be a good area to hunt. I believe the Romans buried their dead near to crossroads.
Footpaths are always a good shout! Some of our favourite days out detecting come from following old footpaths. Very fascinating your field hasn’t thrown up more Roman finds!
There was a layer of fired clay nodules down at a foot in one area of the field and what looks like an iron ingot (wrought iron slab about 5 inches by 3 by 3). Here in the Weald the Romans got the native iron smelters to ramp up their bloomery output for their military. I'm sure an archaeological investigation would bring up more than I can with my detector. The farmer would need to decide if he would be interested
Looks like 'triple' silver. By the way I wouldn't have found my Roman pot without a little bit of settings for best depth. The top coin was a few inches above the pot at maybe 10 inches depth. And nothing definitively Roman anywhere else in the soil. Intersections whether they're former footpaths or old roads may be a good area to hunt. I believe the Romans buried their dead near to crossroads.
Footpaths are always a good shout! Some of our favourite days out detecting come from following old footpaths. Very fascinating your field hasn’t thrown up more Roman finds!
There was a layer of fired clay nodules down at a foot in one area of the field and what looks like an iron ingot (wrought iron slab about 5 inches by 3 by 3). Here in the Weald the Romans got the native iron smelters to ramp up their bloomery output for their military. I'm sure an archaeological investigation would bring up more than I can with my detector. The farmer would need to decide if he would be interested