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Today saw us head off over the bridge once again for a chilly, early start somewhere near Bristol. I made the journey with my detecting buddies of many a year, Mark and Staplehead!

An uneventful, but Python inspired journey saw us arrive an hour early to find that at least another 40 diehard DW members had arrived before us! As the morning passed away this grew to around 90 members. So good to see some of the old stalwarts of DW there and equally great to meet lots of new rally goers including: AndyUK, Avalon, Bighoni, Ben Watergent, Da Monkey, Daz, Dave Ha, Faymous, Jassy, Morg123, Ragnar, Sugar and anyone else I may have missed!  

It was a new farm to us, so following the introduction speech, Rob, Geoff and I spent half an hour putting up flags and checking we had the right fields on the map. Whilst wandering we saw a few finds including a nice buckle to Johnus Maximus and a pendent with someones profile on it. Once that was done about 11am the thought of detecting entered our minds.

Most people had disappeared off into the distance on this huge, sprawling farm with numerous field of pasture and stubble to search on. I thought I would concentrate on the empty car park field and joined Rob and Ray & Enid Homer as the only occupants of this field.

It wasn't long until I found a Medieval belt stud, quickly followed by a small part of a Medi buckle. Being a stickler for believing that if you are finding it one area, then dont move, I slowed down amd grided the area and lo and behold I was rewarded in stunning style! The reward was a Shilling of Elizabeth 1st (cross crosslet 1660-1661} 2nd Issue - as confirmed by the 3 recently arrived Finds Liason Officers. To say I was suprised would be an understatement- thats two DW Rallies running I've found big hammered! Long may it last! As a point of interest it was no more than 3 inches under the grass (which had been recently ploughed}. Any machine being used today by any DW member would have found it - I was just lucky.

Finds were soon appearing all over the place with Ademineab having a nice silver Victorian brooch, Tafflaff with some silver off a walking cane, Minelab user with a silver joey, William III coinage, three love tokens and some milled silver.

The next find of note came from Enid and was a Medieval pendent (enamelled coat of arms} I love these items and it should be easy enough to find out who it belonged to . A more modern coat of arms was in Nomads hands and was in the form of a lovely livery button.

Richard of 16.5DD fame decided to join the days finds by turning up a Roman sililiqua - which was a tad battered, but Roman is Roman and he was rightfully happy with it.

I had to cancel my gridding section as news had reached me that Rambo had found something gold. It took me some time to find him and en-route I managed to find myself a half groat of Edward IV! I was pleased as punch. My smile though was not a patch on Rambo's as when I tracked him down he did indeed have gold in the shape of a quarter guinea of George III dated 1762. Well done mate - a beauty of a find and worthy of gracing the pages of any detecting magazine!

Hammered were raining in now all over the place and I lose track of who found what -  so perhaps you can help me in your replies to this post. the one member I know definately had one though was our very own French chef - Nordine (aka Napoleon] It was his first hammered and with typical gaelic style he followed it by immediately finding another one. Rally pleased for you Nap - thoroughly deserved.

Duggie Puggie pulled out a nice horse bit that needs a bit of TLC  and a small cannon ball which is probably linked to the well documented Civil War action in the area.

Missmaggs had found her first hammered coin - I believe of James 1st, but I never got to see it. Does anyone have a photo?

The farmer and his good lady joined us and were amazed at some of the finds. They are a really nice couple and are keen to have us back on the land, so please remember this is a DW farm. Anyone found harassing them for permission will be removed from DW. We don't ever have this problem at DW, but its worth reminding people as we have lots of newbies.

Back to the fields and Staterchaser has a William III sixpence with a mint mark of N - Is that Norwich? Shungav and his clan have a few silvers and a hammered and a William III shilling as well. Great result guys.

The end was drawing to a close and back at the car we counted up 14 hammered coins and about the same amount of milled silver coins that we knew of. It may well be a fair few more as I probably only spoke to about a third of the rally goers. So add to this post whatever you found.

I thoroughly enjoyed myself and a huge thanks as always to Rob, Admin, the Stewards and all the DW family for coming out to play today.

They'll be another one in the very near future.

Cheers
Neil

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Put your feet up - loads more to go!

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The Golden Boy himself!

As you can see I took one or two photos!

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Last ones for now!

Thanks for that Neil. A lovely set of pics you will all surely agree. So here goes with the ones i took.

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then there was the lovely sight of the monkjack deer tearing around the field .. just when i had the camera out

..and finally, taff working out the map, in front of an expectant crowd

each rally seems to be getting better :o

thanks dw cracking day

Thanks all for another great rally, and an excellent report and pictures as usual Neil. And thanks Alan  for your pics as well. :)

Unfortunately, in cricketing language, I failed to trouble the scorers today, but well done to all those that  had some excellent finds.

GR8 day, cheers lads!
Well done on some lovely hammereds, love the shilling Neil and concratuations Rambo.

your not alone peter ,i got 3 and a half greenies,a pot leg ,musket ball,various bits of lead, a pewter jug handle and more scrap for my retirement fund.planning to retire at 115 years old when my sex drive goes  ::)

i have to agree,,well done team dw...rambo..great coin...and napoleon well done my friend on your hammies...we will toast them at the next rally.....my turn  next time...lol

Another great day out for me,my second rally with DW.Many thanks to the organisers,I managed to find a token a farthing and a Viccy penny for me that is a good day lol. ;D

First  a big thank you to admin , Taff, Neil, Ray,Pipster and all of the dw team members for another top rallie, a very good turn up , nice location with  a sunny day , nice to chat with some of the new members . Ok I would like to congratulate Rambo for the cracking coin and well deserve it buddy and wish you all a happy hunt at the next rallie.Merciiiii.Napoleon . ;D

Neil, As always, an excellent report, and good picis. I know I never get there (I will one day) but I always look forward to reading about the rallies and who found what.
Great days detecting everyone, well done all. Glad you kept the FLOS busy.

Val

Another Great Day Lovely Finds Made GOLD & SILVER.

Well Done To All You Lucky Finders And Well Done To All That Took Part

I Will Add My Little finds Nothing compared to those hammereds and that cracking gold coin Well done Rambo.

Another great report Neil. Thanks for all the work you put into this and the pics. Yet another cracking rally site found for us by Tafflaff (Rob). I think this rally officially qualifies as another hammiefest.

Geoff

Thanks again to all at DW for an enjoyable rally.Some great finds and pictures.Well done Rambo for finding a gold coin, a feeling you will never forget.

Another great report with loads of fantastic pics, sadly nothing much for me but still had a good time & a lot of laughs ( who could forget Wendover and his Frank Spencer impersonation, he had me in stitches!  ;D ) A great rally with some great people looking forward to the next one, well done guys and girls congrats on all your finds.  ;)

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welldone everyone!!! some really nice finds there ;) will have to come along to a rally soon! been a while since ive been out!  :o

Thoroughly enjoyed the dig.  Well organised, friendly etc. as has come to be expected.  I love seeing the beaming smiles on the finders faces when they proudly show their goodies  :)  

DW is going from strength to strength and may it always be so.  Soon we'll attract visitors from abroad booking our outings and they'll be made to feel very welcome - of that I'm sure.

Thank you DW - I was thrilled to win second prize in the coins in the bottle competition.    :-*

Next time, bring the accordion and play us a song![

Well guys, what can I say ??  A brilliant day out, thoroughly enjoyed it. It was my 1st rally and my mate DaveHa's first as well. Didnt know what to expect, but everyone was friendly and helpful, didn't find much myself, only a Spindle Whorle and Dave had similar & a spout which were recorded by the FLO's who were very nice people.  Thanks to all involved in organising the day and the farmer for the permission to go there, an excellent day out and great people, rest assured -  I'll be back...

good to meet & chat with you yesterday, post up your pics please. [handyman]

ok - a few more of my finds

an interesting lead weight with a lion design on the top.

a decorative button with an anchor design

and a few other bits


enjoy

had a great day out even though the finds eluded me ,would like to say a big thankyou for the help and tips given to missmaggs(forest of dean boys) for the container ..the couple (whose names i dont know)in the white van parked beside us for the setting up of her garrett ...her first rally and she was rewarded with a james 1 hammy..and all the general support and good wishes offered....
it was a well organised rally ,and cant wait to go back again ...
well done rambo on the gold

Another great day out,thanks to all the DW crew involved
,look forward to the next one,cheers :)

thanks for the great rally  really enjoyed it and legio we have all ben on our first rallys and i remember mine i was lost completly so no probs at all

 ;D  just testing the camera .

Nap - great photo's  :)

Where can I get a an electric Bakestone for making Welshcakes ?

 Cheap as chips hopefully  ???

Electric Bakestone ??????? I've never heard the like  ;D
I would of thought your best bet would be a crepe maker.

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Thanks Geoff - been searching everywhere for something suitable !  the argos one seems ok  ???  will check if it's in stock locally  :)

 :)  Thanks Tyna, Regarding the bake stone i  dont think they exist on electric , i think a crepe maker like Chef just post may be ok but a simple bake stone is ideal for Welsh Cakes. Nordine.

Nordine - bake stone - too big for induction hob  ???

Hi Rob,Geoff & Neil,
Barrie and I enjoyed the rally with some great finds, we only had buttons and the usual bits but a great dayout again and thanks to all the organisers.

 We don't think we will be able to make next weeks re-run  at  Frampton Cotterell but wish you all the luck and good finds

                                          Pat. ;) ;)

Lovely to have the dry weather back even if my finds didn't match! Just the William halfpenny and the bag seal plus an assortment of standard buttons.Thanks again for the hard work in organising.

taff the link to wendover doing his frank spencer......quality!..lol

As always another cracking day out. First of all may I apoligise to Tafflaff Rob for my unruly behaviour and I am sure he must of felt like he was on suicide watch. The reason was these fella,s (see picture). 21 in the pre lunch session, 10 after lunch and 3 more in the final hour. Not classed as a hoard but they gave me so many different signals you got to dig em.  :'(

I concur WBM - I had several different numbers showing and the end result was the same - a tube  :'(  Couldn't take the chance not to dig.
Deb

Nomad you are right. Here is the offending fella. The Wendover Wander in full flow.

And what makes it worse Debbie is you turn round and watch Neil pulling lovely hammered out of the ground. Here is said fella looking well happy. Pleased for you mate they we.re two fine examples

 ;D thanks for another great day out,  and shungav  i reckon your finds are half mine, lol

The entertainment was top notch though. Here is the Detecting Wales formation dancing team lead by Celtic Coburn in full flow.

It got to much for some people and this is the result.  :o :o :o

good job we brought the van...to carry the ointment tubes away with us...lol

Personally I thought it was a lovely day. Sun was shining, brilliant farm well done Rob, right side of the Channel as well. One thing puzzled me though. What is the collective noun for a group of DW stewards. A murder was suggested along with a gaggle, a rabble and a few I can,t print. Suggestions gladly accepted. As the picture shows they are known to hunt in packs.   :o ;D ;D

I think we kept the FLO,s busy and thanks  for coming people. Neil is banned from taking a detector to the next rally but here is Nomad trying to sell them a bacon butty.

Here is my version of Hammered. Though if I had the bottle once attached to this I could have got hammered to forget all those bleeding tubes.

another good day on a DW rally great turn out weather turned out nice great assortment of finds surprised only i roman came up ,well done to Napoleon getting is first hammy plus 1. i did not find a lot but there you go thats what this hobby is all about. ;)

Think its Queen Victoria Jubilee Badge. Just give it a light clean its a shame its not complete.

nice finds. sorry i could not be there. ;D ;D ;D

Fatty - be at the next one then  ???

Looks like I missed a good rally. Well done all.