Just thought I would share this with you good people as it comes from my just outside my home town of Winchester in Hampshire UK, This was the last signal of the day as my trusty Minelab Explorer II was playing that last post tune, saying I'm about to die on you any second as my Battery is flat. It had been a good day out in the fields with some nice finds to go home with. But the last signal just blew me away.. I film most of my finds with my Apple iPhone so I can show my friends what a find looks like as it come out of the ground & this one was no exception, I had taken the clod of earth out & started to check the ground with the pinpointer I was feeling with my fingers in the hole in hope I could feel what it was that made my Explorer II sound off at..
As you will see in the film I had just unearthed a real bit of history, I had in my hand a Anglo-Scandinavian / Viking its known as a Howling Beast Stirrup Mount this little chap had not seen the light of day for 900 years & I was the first human to have touched it in that time, I don’t know about you but this just blew me away just think if this little chap could talk what stories he could tell.. As I said at the start my home town is Winchester in Hampshire the owner of this Howling Beast Stirrup Mount could have ridden threw the city I wonder what it was like. Well the Stirrup Mount is in the city now with the with the museum being recorded with the PAS (Portable Antiquities Scheme)
Taggy – England, UK