Early September 2018 I attended a small rally run by my club The Detectorists Investigation group near Salisbury Wiltshire. After an hour I had a small Roman coin plus a Roman ring for my efforts when I suddenly received a very strong signal reading at 21 on the EQUINOX screen. After digging down 12" with no sign of the target in the plough soil I carried on digging into the chalk and gravel layers with the help of my son Paul. At 15" the rim of the pot suddenly appeared and we halted digging to evaluate the next course of action. Lots of those present including the farmer wanted us to dig the pot out. It was finally decided to try and contact an Archeologist to carry on the excavation. After a lot of phone calls we managed to contact experts from the British museum who were so pleased we had stopped digging they offered to come and do it themselves the next day. Monday morning at 11.00am we had six experts arrive with digging tools who duly started the excavations whereupon after several hours we had the pot out of the ground complete in one piece and full of coins. As a reward for our efforts we received an invitation from the museum to visit them to view the last of the contents being removed from the pot. Final count of coins was 1820, The hoard included a mixture of Bronze and silver wash coins from 265ad to 350 ad and included coins minted by a large number of Emperors.
Tony - England, UK
