New cavalry harness find to be displayed at Ipswich

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

you reckon? I suppose that might be a novel idea......what do you think Christian? Maybe he could start a trend?

[MARCvSVIBIvSMAvRINvS]

what do you think Christian?

OMG he is one of THEM!!

:twisted:

M.VIB.M.

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

:lol:

[Crispvs]

An alternative way to post photos (and the one which I generally use), is to upload your photo onto a photo-hosting site such as photobucket and then copy the IMG tag on the photo once it is hosted. Simply past this IMG line onto your posting and the image should come up in your post, like this:



(Someone else took the photo while I was asleep, just in case you didn't realise)

Crispvs

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

Are you sure you weren't having an out of body experience? hock: :lol:

[Memmia]

(Someone else took the photo while I was asleep, just in case you didn't realise)

Crispvs

Gaius:

Are you sure you weren't having an out of body experience?

....and his soul just happened to grab a camera on the way up :wink:

Jordan- Just one point to remember, if you add photos in 'attachments' they are only visible to members who are signed in. I personally prefer this method if I am posting pics of people on here, (especially if they show unknown members of the public in the background) so non members browsing the internet cannot view them. This is just my own preference- it's not a board policy or anything. If you link to photobucket, the pic will be visible to everyone who reads the board, whether they are logged in or not.

P.S. Crispus- Where was that photo taken ?

[Crispvs]

"P.S. Crispus- Where was that photo taken ?"

In the doorway of one of the roundhouses at Butser Ancient Farm about four years ago. Unlike everyone else, who decided to use airbeds, stretchers and the like, I thought it was an ideal oportunity to try sleeping the way a Roman soldier might have. However the interior of the roundhouse was very stony and being a sensitive sort I decided to make my bed where the floor was softest, which turned out to be the doorway.

Then I took off my boots and belts, laid my cloak and scarf on the ground and went to sleep, using my tunic (which is closer to Roman proportions than those worn by many re-enactors) as a sleeping bag, as I am sure most Romans probably did when in the field. When I woke up I saw nothing in front of me which might not have been seen in the ancient landscape: roundhouses, hurdle fences, trees and hillsides. The next view I had was when I looked behind me into the roundhouse and saw all of the modern equipment other people had felt the need of for a night's sleep. This view was not quite so mesmerising and satisfying.

Anyway, I have pulled this thread rather to far OT I think.


Crispvs

[ClaudiusCivilis]

Prepare another cross, here is another detectorist. Although I got used to negative comments on detectorists, this thread really infuriated me... The original article on Jordan's find did not hint at any irresponcible behaviour from his side...

I do understand the comments to some extent, since I too love history and hate to see our heritage be destroyed, stolen damaged etc.

Being a Dutch detectorist in Germany with a lot of detectorist friends there and in the Netherlands, I know how hard it is to be accepted by archeologists, mainly because we are divided into two groups by them:

The ones that plunder archeological sites at night, sell their finds to foreign private collectors making big amounts of money, causing archeological artefacts to be lost for the public forever.

and the ones that work together under the supervision of archeologists.

The fact is that most detectorists don't do anything illegal, but also not cooperate closely with archeologists, not because they don't want to, but because archeologists tend to put them in the criminal corner or make cooperation very very hard by putting up many bureaucratic obstacles.

As for the finds that the average detectorist makes... they are not spectaculair and will not make you rich. Where do we find them? mainly on farmland, which is plowed and fertilised every year, which causes the main load of our finds to be shredded to pieces or badly corroded because of the accidity levels of the soil.
In Hessen (DE) where I live now, I (finally!!!) have a permit which allows me to detect on farmland (not on undisturbed soils like forest) with known archeological value. This because the archeologists in this Bundesland have realized that not the detectorist, but the farmer plowing might be the biggest threat to OUR heritage. By recording single finds they can still recontruct the historical importance of certain areas and if need be just like in Jordan's case do an emergency dig.

In other parts of Germany there is a total ban on detecting... Some of you might think this is good, but in fact it does not prevent the crimal detectorist to do his detecting at archeological sites and needlessly criminalizes detectorists that otherwise would have reported their finds, but now can not.

Just like re-enactors we can provide new insights in our peoples pasts, just like re-enactors most of us take our hobby very seriously, not like re-enactors, their are groups of people with a detector that ruine our good name.

Now let's see some pictures of this great find!!!

[History for all]

Hear hear!

Thanks for your comments and support Claudius!
I have posted some pictures of the find on this forum somewhere........it was a few weeks ago now so might be lost in the depths somewhere!
What is the detecting like in your part of the world?
I currently study in Prague and dont manage to detect here and save it for when i get back to england
what sorts of things do u find?