Roman Finds in Lincolnshire
How to find Roman artifacts or Roman finds in Lincolnshire
Now, settle back, close those other windows down and don’t you dare backclick to Facebook or Youtube because I’m going to tell you a tale.
I fully expect it to rock the world of archaeology to its very core - the last time something like this happened it was in Egypt and it involved some fella name Tut something or other.
Gather round folks I’ve got a story to tell
I mentioned on the site the other day that I longed to find something interesting - I’d love to find just one Roman coin.
Enter Neville stage left (he be villainous with a big moustache and black top hat 
) he said get thee off to Kirmington would-be treasure seeker
Sounds good - I’ll look into it
Enter Chris Keyworth stage right I know the area said CK, what about a tour taking in medieval settlements and Roman Forts ?
Wunderbar ! how about Tuesday.
And off we went today, cold windy and rainy but what a day and guess what - I can scarcely believe it . . .
I found a Roman Coin 
My Roman Coin - I Can’t Tell You How Happy I Am
That’s my coin above, found with the eye and without trespassing or doing anything wrong !
Chris had brought along some coins so I could look at them first and ‘get my eye in’ this turned out to be an inspired idea as I’m sure I wouldn’t have spotted it otherwise.
It’s about the size of your thumbnail and heavily oxidised as you can see.
I’d love to have some idea of roughly how old it is - any educated guesses would be greatly appreciated
Some Shards of Roman Pottery I Found
To further add to my cornucopia of rich artefacts I also found a selection of Roman Pottery as well, as seen above.
I know I keep going on about the feeling you get when you are stood somewhere steeped in history but it is tremendous - who was the last person to touch that coin ?
(Incidentally, such was the fairy-tale aspect of it all CK suggested Neville had been down and planted a load in the hope I might find one )
There’s more to come from this trip as I visited some really great places thanks to Chris’ expert guidance, none of which I knew about.
I’ve got to thank Neville and Chris for what has to be one of my finest days out !
I’m grinning like an idiot still - I kept taking the coin out of my pocket to look at like a little kid.
I know the coin is what it is but it means a great deal to me, Chris of course has found the odd coin or two himself but for me it felt like a hoard !
What a fantastic day !
Can you believe it actually worked out like that ?
Grinningly Yours
Rod
chris keyworth said,
February 2, 2010 @ 5:29 pm
concidering we was only on the path 2 mins and i had only found one peice of pot and i put rods chances of finding a coin eyes only at 80% in his favour which is good odds, i dont think he did to bad, seeing it first hand on the path where he found it i would say that the coin is C4 and classed as an AE2 Barberius Radiate ( a contempary copied roman coin) as mentioned on here before there is alot of these about, non the less important in its own right as this would have been circulated around the time of the Roman withdrawle of Britania it would have been worth what a 10p is worth today due to devaluation, in time these coins got alot smaller.
regards
chris
the dinosaur said,
February 2, 2010 @ 6:21 pm
Rod, as the most famous Roman of them all once said “I came, I saw, I conquered” and today you did! Well done, keep digging
Femme fatale said,
February 2, 2010 @ 6:41 pm
Rod,
Well done you.
What a fabulous find.
FF
xx
Little Brother said,
February 2, 2010 @ 7:33 pm
Rod,
Well done mate, nice work (and photos)
LB (ps..back in blighty)
Rod said,
February 2, 2010 @ 7:46 pm
Dino, FF, LB
many thanks for the kind words - really appreciated.
Dino, never was your ‘keep digging’ signature more apt
FF, many thanks - it is a fabulous find, well to me at least and put the icing on the cake of a great day out.
LB, welcome home !
Best
Rod
Annie Flinn said,
February 2, 2010 @ 7:49 pm
Today was a great for you, old son. So happy for you.
Annie
Rod said,
February 2, 2010 @ 7:56 pm
All,
for dating idea see Chris’ comment - over 1,500 years old !!
Chris sent me the route plotted out via his GPS and then mapped onto Google Earth. It was a good hike and you can see by the route shaded in blue just how many places we went to and the distance covered - note too it goes off to the right out of shot as well.
I also now know the exact, and I mean exact, spot where the coin was found - naturally I’ve removed that from this version of the map - lest the British Museum start pestering me
The Round-Trip Route
Rod said,
February 2, 2010 @ 8:00 pm
Annie,
it’s certainly a day I’ll never forget - many thanks
I think I’ll chance a celebratory bottle of claret tonight
prost
Rod
Peter Mullins said,
February 2, 2010 @ 8:04 pm
I’ve lost may way remembering which threads your Little Coates material was on, so this is posted in the wrong place I’ afraid.
[edit]
I struggled to place it as well Peter as it’s come up on a few threads so moved toLittle Coates Church
chris keyworth said,
February 2, 2010 @ 8:18 pm
a total of 9.15 miles walked today…
regards
chris
Amiguru said,
February 2, 2010 @ 8:58 pm
Rod,
Congratulations on losing your Roman virginity!
It has always been fairly reliable there, hence the name.
Nice that you have got your eye in now and know to look for ‘greenish’ instead of ‘reddish’. The next stage to your boost in prowess will be ‘purplish’ followed by the orgasmic ‘yellowish’. I’m so glad too that my suggested search area didn’t lead to a wild goose chase
Regards,
le
N
Rod said,
February 3, 2010 @ 8:37 am
Neville has sent me an image which pins down the exact type of coin it is and what it would have looked like.
It is in fact from the reign of Emperor Rodicus
How clever is that
Amiguru said,
February 3, 2010 @ 9:55 am
Very Dodgy Dog Latin
Rodicus Collinius needed for his happinus
For to find a coinicus of his little onicus
In the early stagium consul Nevillsagium
On the internetium told him where to getium
Brother Chrisiorum also on the forum
Saw the need beforum and took him on a tourum
Almost straight awayii our hero with his now trained eye
An aes 2 radiate did spi and so his lust did satisfi!
The moral of this talio is all you need is ‘haveago’
Then your lamna contraho will very quickly start to gro
No need for Lingua Latina to find coins that have patina
This saga ends and that, in a few lines I hope, is thatina!
Nevillius Plebeius
Rod said,
February 3, 2010 @ 10:33 am
Neville,
you’re wasted - you should be the Poet Laureate !
Oops sorry - just realised you can’t be - all yours rhyme
There’s a real talent doing that, I had a go a while back and was absolutely hopeless
Best
Rod
Cid said,
February 5, 2010 @ 9:52 am
Neville,
Far be it for me to state the obvious and tie up all the loose ends created….
Surely what we have here are the remains of Britannia’s only vestal virgin temple…. essential work in chilly old Lincolnshire keeping the home fires burning. What an easy job by the way, doing a bit of housekeeping and one eye on the hearth …. nothing much changes in the lives of we humble females
Either way, seeing there was little hope of any public floggings on their account due to lack of interest…. they must have wandered off depressed by the vision that one day Ray Mears would invent the portable log burner and Rod would discover their spiritual home was now a golf course* …… both of which were bound to happen where groups of men are left alone long enough to dwell 
Cid
* Rod always gets hit by flying golf balls apparently….. do you suppose the vestals had a sense of humour?
Amiguru said,
February 5, 2010 @ 8:02 pm
Cid,
You tempt me into deep water here, however, I’m up for the challenge.
If what you suggest is true then the big questions are, does Rod wear a vest and is he a virgin? Regarding the former, I would think not, or at least it is unlikely to be a string one as there is a danger that he might, when whipping it off, entangle his iron cross and end up with a nose piercing. Regarding the latter question, I would very much doubt it, or at least if it was the case he would be in for an awful surprise should the outstanding P.A. accept his persistent invitations!
As to Vestal Virgins, I hardly think they would live up to their title as, with Tarpeia, Rhea and Tuccia as priestly role models there is no wonder the church is afraid to appoint female bishops. From what we are learning as a result of investigations on this site the nuns of old would seem to have been cast in the same mould.
An underground temple lends a new meaning to the word ‘bunker’, come to think of it they do tend to be appropriately ovoid.
N
le
Cid said,
February 7, 2010 @ 11:28 am
Neville,
I don’t fancy ancient Rome. There you are one minute playing happily with the other girls, the next you’re being dragged off to spend thirty years looking after Nero’s fire pit. It’s another fine example of the naked Emperor…. one whisper of romantic liaisons and the poor vestal was buried alive with a mug of tea and a stale bun. Mark my words, there’s always a man behind these set-ups dangling the carrot of a life of luxury after the age of 40 as long as she keeps home and hearth ship shape while dancing about wearing little more than a Grecian tea towel (by way of a pinch of mirth, yesterday saw yours truly taking coffee with friends…. I say to husband ‘hope I’m not interrupting anything, your wife says when I’ve gone she’s going to do the dance of the seven tea towels’… ‘please don’t go’ came the response
)
Must confess Neville, that I’ve failed to factor into my match-making plan, the possibility that Rod wears a string vest under his macho rock t-shirt. He’ll spray it silver and call it chain-mail but women won’t fall for that old ploy. My bet is that he’s going for the old ‘would you like to see my
etchingsRoman finds’?Your stash of vintage maps and books is sounding more and more impressive, I picture it as a sort of Dumbledore’s study complete with ancient globe and rotating planets… piles of papyrus maps with a bronze roman foot as a paper weight…. am I right?
Cid
Amiguru said,
February 7, 2010 @ 3:05 pm
Cid,
I quite agree that you don’t fit in with the image of the Roman woman who seemingly was a mere accessory and who didn’t live long enough to establish an intellectual maturity such as yours. Even if she had allowed herself an opinion it would have been foolish to have voiced it let alone recorded it. Unless ………..you were a Livia, who knew how to handle men:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsUThgpC_rg&feature=related
No Cid, I see you more as an Anglo Saxon woman of strength and influence. Sensible men now, as they did then, recognise that in fact their lives are created run and sculpted by women. Recommended reading for all macho males: The Importance of Women in Anglo-Saxon Times by George Forrest Browne which can be found here:
http://www.archive.org/details/importancewomen00browgoog
I feel honoured that you see me as a Dumbledore, particularly as Rowling sees him as “the epitome of goodness……..knows pretty much everything”, however, I should have to cope with her seeing him as“being gay and that he had fallen in love with Gellert Grindelwald”
I don’t have any globes but do have a large telescope; I don’t have a Caxton, yet, my oldest book being Appiani’s De Civilibus Romanorum Bellis… 1560. Otherwise, I think its fair to say ‘you get the picture’.
Neville
Amiguru said,
February 7, 2010 @ 3:18 pm
Cid,
Please edit the ‘h**p’ in the following to access the links as Rod’s filters, I suspect, are blocking the post.
Cid,
I quite agree that you don’t fit in with the image of the Roman woman who seemingly was a mere accessory and who didn’t live long enough to establish an intellectual maturity such as yours. Even if she had allowed herself an opinion it would have been foolish to have voiced it let alone recorded it. Unless ………..you were a Livia, who knew how to handle men:
h**p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsUThgpC_rg&feature=related
No Cid, I see you more as an Anglo Saxon woman of strength and influence. Sensible men now, as they did then, recognise that in fact their lives are created run and sculpted by women. Recommended reading for all macho males: The Importance of Women in Anglo-Saxon Times by George Forrest Browne which can be found here:
h**p://www.archive.org/details/importancewomen00browgoog
I feel honoured that you see me as a Dumbledore, particularly as Rowling sees him as “the epitome of goodness……..knows pretty much everything”, however, I should have to cope with her seeing him as“being gay and that he had fallen in love with Gellert Grindelwald”
I don’t have any globes but do have a large telescope; I don’t have a Caxton, yet, my oldest book being Appiani’s De Civilibus Romanorum Bellis… 1560. Otherwise, I think its fair to say ‘you get the picture’.
Neville
Amiguru said,
February 7, 2010 @ 4:49 pm
Rod,
Apologies about the seeming mess. I posted the above and it didn’t appear on the thread. I switched from Firefox to IE and it still wasn’t there so tried again from there. Still no post, closed and reopened browser, no post so posted again with the edited hyperlinks. Now I see all three are visible.
Regards,
le
N
Cid said,
February 7, 2010 @ 5:51 pm
Neville,
Many thanks for the links to female supremacy….. I’ve long since suspected it!
I shouldn’t take too much notice of Rowling and the Gellert thing….. surely you’re more like the Steve McQueen of latin antiquities?
Cid
p.s. I’ve scanned the marble images of Livia….. we could be sisters
Rod said,
February 7, 2010 @ 6:18 pm
Neville,
you didn’t mess up what happened was you put two external links in the post which means it doesn’t go live I have to ‘approve’ the comment.
Normally once aproved you can then post what you want and it will go live - the 2 link thing is just a safety measure.
Best
Rod
Rod said,
August 9, 2010 @ 6:39 pm
What’s this then ?
I’ve been mostly looking for pottery today, found some Staffordshire slipware at one place and this at another
Pottery and Metal Object
Roman pottery I’m going for, but looking for information, but it’s the metal object I’m really pleased with.
It looks to have been in the ground a long time - could it be Roman ? If so what is it ?
Anything from a harness, tackle or the like perhaps ?
Best
Rod
Chris Keyworth said,
August 9, 2010 @ 6:48 pm
iron objects tend to be harder to identifie, but it looks like a gate hinge to me or some sort of loop fitting for a woodern beam the other metal object is a penny of Elizebeth II post 2002 with a steel core and coated in a cupronickle skin if this had been in the ground more than 2 years it would be unrecognisable…
regards
chris
Rod said,
August 9, 2010 @ 7:15 pm
Chris,
it’s relatively small, the 1p for scale just fits inside the ‘ring’
The metal is round and not particularly heavy duty I’d say, feels like it’s been in the ground a long time.
Best
Rod
Jon S said,
October 6, 2010 @ 10:32 pm
Last night 4 metal detectorists were found working over, and illegally digging in, a scheduled site on the GE image included earlier in this thread. All 4 were arrested, initially on charges of ‘going equipped’ etc, and a car was seized as ‘used in crime’. This site has to be one of the most frequently-monitored archaeological locations in the county - if you know the area in question, you will probably be able to work out why!
Jon
chris keyworth said,
October 6, 2010 @ 10:51 pm
jon
sad but i have to say what a result, this sort of thing has been happening on here ever since i can remember, if they are desprate enough to detect on there then they arnt that bright just look over the fence and you will prob see the police helicopter on the apron at the airport its up and around at all hours..
regards
chris
chris keyworth said,
October 6, 2010 @ 11:01 pm
john im interested to hear where you got the info as ive just spoken to two of my friends who are with lincolnshire police in our area and they where about on sunday monday and tuesday night and they never heared anything about it…
regards
chris
Jon S said,
October 7, 2010 @ 5:45 pm
Chris,
If they’re with Lincs Police then unfortunately they won’t have; Kirmington is in Humberside’s area (just).
Jon