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Community => Introduce yourself => Topic started by: conna on September 30, 2012, 07:50:40 pm

Title: Hello from the West Midlands
Post by: conna on September 30, 2012, 07:50:40 pm

Hi Everyone

I am John, 50 years old, married with 2 kids and from the West Midlands

I work at a private law firm and in my spare time I love to go out on farmland with my metal detector in search of anything other than rubbish that people have lost over the last 5000 years or so.  My best find to date is a Bronze Age Axe Head Circa 3500 bc, not too valuable but historically so.  I have found my fair share of Hammered coins, 3 of which are King Edward 1st Pennies from 1299 and a multitude of other bits and pieces from Roman times to date.

I was reccommended this forum by someone in the hope that some of you may be able to help me out by offering to let me onto your land to search for a bit of lost history.

I have posted a message to this effect under the "Land Magagement thread" and I hope this is ok with the admin.

Kind regards

Conna.

Title: Re: Hello from the West Midlands
Post by: Carl f k on September 30, 2012, 09:09:33 pm

Hello from another west midlander.. Got no land but welcome

Title: Re: Hello from the West Midlands
Post by: Lesley Silvester on September 30, 2012, 09:28:05 pm

And yet another one.  I'm in Telford but only have a garden.

Title: Re: Hello from the West Midlands
Post by: plumseverywhere on October 04, 2012, 09:22:24 am

Hello Conna

We live opposite a saxon burial ground! I know that a skeleton was unearthed there a few years back complete with gold and jewels  :)
we've done a bit of metal detecting in our orchard and found a very old scythe head which is now pride of place on my mantel piece. was hoping for more as this is apparantly an old roman settlement! hey ho!

Lisa

Title: Re: Hello from the West Midlands
Post by: Rosemary on October 04, 2012, 12:00:00 pm

Hello and welcome!  :wave:

I love all that archeology - love programmes like Time Team and Meet the Ancestors, when I have time to watch TV. We'd love to have someone scour our 12 acres. This has been church land since the 12th century, I think, and there has been an army base here since the 1700s.

When I get time  ::) , I'm going to do some historical research on Dalmore. It kind of puts things in perspective when you think about history. There were two Iron Age skeletons found in Alloa a few years ago, and I used to sometimes muse on folk sitting in the same place I was, thousands of years ago, doing much the same as me. I find it kind of humbling.

Title: Re: Hello from the West Midlands
Post by: Mammyshaz on October 11, 2012, 06:42:01 am

Hello and welcome from Durham  :wave: