Our club returned to a local farm having priviously found a small spread of Roman coins along one field boundary. We suspected a hoard might have been scattered when the adjacent ditch had been deepened a few years ago. This time we had permission to investigate in the ditch, along the other side of which runs and old medieval trackway. After a couple of hours struggling with the thorny under growth within the ditch, I climbed out to join the other lads who had teased up over a dozen more Roman bronze coins from the field. I was slightly disapointed, having only found two coins within the ditch and those at a distance from each other, so finding a hoard in the ditch was looking less likely that when we had started.
of 1