Last week I finished work early and as the weather was good I decided to head out for an hour or so to get some detecting in before heading home for the day. The field I had in mind had just been cut for silage a few days before and as land is scarce at the moment I decided to give it a go. I’d detected this field a few times before and had moderate success (mostly lead) so wasn’t expecting anything spectacular to come up, how wrong I was. The second signal was a John the Blind of Luxembourg Continental Penny which I was chuffed to bits with, then ten minutes later I had a good signal, I dug the target and five to six inches down I caught my first glimpse of something silver with a red stone in the middle. My heart skipped a beat as I picked the object up and gave it a quick clean. Although I’m still very much a novice detectorist I had a good idea that what I had found was a seal of some kind which was in very good condition.