Nah you'll get them the now, just need a wee bit of rain. Whats the wee triangle thing anyway? I'm intrigued.
The triangular thing is a decorative mount that would have been attached to a strap, medieval I think:
I remain sceptical until I see the results of your spectrographic analysis. NB: only by argon spectroscopy.
Back in the same field yesterday. Did a couple of hours away from the crop marked area and found diddly squat so decided to try to cover every inch of that corner of the field, managed to do about a third of it. Found an Edward I Irish penny (broken), unidentifiable hammered silver coin, two unidentifiable Roman coins, Charles I "Rose" farthing, medieval "Spectacle" buckle and some other ****. The big thing left center looks like it might be a bronze age miscast of an arrow head perhaps. please log in to view this image Remember the big green thing from my first search of this field: please log in to view this image My research leads me to believe that it is an Anglo-Saxon sleeve clasp circa 600-800AD. Not bad.
Went again this week and found Roman silver: a Denarius of Elagabalus 218-222AD. Also bizarrely another Edward I Irish penny, this time intact, minted in Dublin. The other thing of note is that the two pieces of bronze mount were found several yards apart. please log in to view this image
Was watching Digging For Britain this morning and spotted an almost identical item on a late Roman military belt which was found in an Anglo-Saxon grave. Very rare in Britain apparently. http://britisharchaeology.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/roman-oxon/dorchester-belt.html please log in to view this image
Some bedtime reading for you all, a book about base metal spoons with illustrated maker's marks: http://www.pewterbank.com/Old_Base_Metal_Spoons_--_marks-...94.pdf
