The Earth Moves

The digger arrived on site today and made a start on the 'wild' part of the dig site while I continued with my nail mountain. Once Anna had used her mediating skills the plan she had so painstakingly made could finally be put into operation and the digger turned it's attention to making the first cuts of the dig proper on a section I had already covered, moving the soil to a convenient adjacent section.



It was becoming apparent that I would never cover the area in time if we continued to track every iron signal down and Anna readily agreed to my suggestion to ignore all the definite iron from now on as she rightly said we had covered a sufficient area to give a reliable figure of the ratio of iron to non-ferrous finds on that particular site. It is a real pleasure to work with Anna and her team as they manage to combine fun and flexibility with their adherence to professional standards. Even the labourers on the site take every opportunity to help out by digging out the finds when they can persuade the girls to give up the shovel. Below you can see them and various other officials on the site playing that favourite game of guess what the detectorist has dug up. In this case it was two lead sling-shots.



Well the new non-ferrous plan soon paid dividends with much more ground being covered and six coins coming to light including a particularly nice one which was thought to be of a third century Emperor called Gordon!