Well it started with a nice sunny morning a break from a week's rain, I headed out to a local farm due to covid (travel restrictions) upon arrival the farmer told me I had the two fields to work with. I knew I had gridded out one field twice over so left me with the other in which I had done a section at the other side of the field and particularly walked back through this area on a couple occasions only ever producing George the iii and victorian coins, so I thanked the farmer and headed into a particularly flooded and sodden stubble field. On my 2nd hole a good signal 13 on my equinox I plucked out a Edward penny,after this I decided to grid what I can between the puddles. Getting a few coppers coins along the way, next I had a fainter bit steady signal again this time a small part of a Edward half groat, soon after further up on my gridding area I get another great signal 14 and steady I pull up a Scottish broken but welcomed David ii hammered groat. What a morning I was having, but as I moved further up the grid things started to turn, things are quieting down, not alot of mineralisation and very few targets looks like I've past it, I grid away for a hour just 2 or 3 targets when out of the blue I get a strong 22 signal on the nox spade in and I dig out the plug check it with the 15" coil its not there so I check the hole, signal, I get down and pull out my pin pointer before I even put it in the hole I see my target, looks like a aluminium cap from a veterinary medicine bottle, so I brush a small piece of mud clear and reveal a pin crossing the circle, OH MY GOD ITS A BROOCH, I know it is but still I'm in doubt, can it be, I've wanted one of those for 4 years, is it really, I pick it up and it's definitely a annular brooch with lettering and etched both sides, I'm buzzing if carlsberg done return to detecting mornings this would be it it but it wasn't it was Minelab, thanks guys!! With some further research it turns out the silver annular brooch is 12/13c the lombardic writing translates " jesus of nazareth" the brooch will soon be on route to the Scottish treasure trove unit were I expect it to be claimed and eventually go on display in a museum in Scotland in which I would be proud to see one day.....
