Another fun day, today, cataloguing finds from fieldwalking fields (part of the Flodden 500 project) around Flodden, the previous cataloguing finds day being St Patrick's Day.
We have, I think, finished field 18, and made a start on field 19.
There was less of interest to me today, musket balls, some buckled lead sheet, a clay marble, bits of 19th century window glass, fragments of clay tobacco pipes, bits of glass bottles, two pins, medieval pottery and some coins – a couple of just recognisable Charles II copper Scottish turners (also known as bodles) worth two pence each.
The young lady sitting next to me asked me about a corroded coin and I suggested she brush it, not really expecting that would do much good. How wrong I was, very quickly Britannia was recognisable with a blank exergue. As it was penny sized, I knew it must be 1806 or 1807. After some more brushing, George III's head was visible, and the date, 1806, was just discernible. Perhaps she's an archaeologist or a numismatist in the making.
Saturday, April 7, 2012
More Cataloguing of Flodden Finds
Labels:
Bodles,
Clay Tobacco Pipes,
Fieldwalking,
Flodden,
Flodden 500,
Flodden 500Bodles,
Musket Balls,
Scottish,
Turners,
Window Glass
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