The Weekend Wanderers Metal Detecting Club Picture Gallery

I would like to take this opportunity of thanking all of the Weekend Wanderers members who have given me permission to display their finds on this web page.

Lee Smeaton was the finder of the lovely Gold 1/4 Stater shown below on a recent Hampshire dig.

Lee tells me the that the Celtic database has a similar coin shown there as of the Trinovante / Catevellauni tribe dated around 40 / 55 BC.

Lee tells me that this coin was found with his Goldmax power - complete with bend in the shaft where he ran it over a couple of weeks ago, the coin was found when checking the mud scraped off his shovel!!!!

Julian Morris was lucky enough to find the beautiful coin pictured below on a recent club dig in Hertfordshire.

Steve Slack was the lucky finder of this beautiful stater found on the same Hertfordshire dig as the 2 below.

Craig Boult was the lucky finder of this beautiful stater found on the same Hertfordshire dig as the stater below found by Lee.

Craig received the following report from the British Museum via FLO Ros Tyrrell...

I am caught in two minds as to whether it is an ancient contemporary plated copy; or a modern copy.
It is most likely to be the former in this case.
It is clearly plated, and the weight of a genuine Gallo-Belgic E stater should be about 6.0-6.5g.
Gallo-Belgic E staters date to around the Gallic War period, perhaps 60 - 50 BC
Your coin weight was 4.25g, a bit light but earlier that I had thought.

WWDC member Lee Miller sent the pictures below of a recent find on a club Hertfordshire dig.

Lee says .... "At last my first Celtic coin find a silver unit of the dias tribe about 20 ad, found on Sunday detecting within full view of the huge explosion of the Hemel Hempstead oil refinery !!! this picture doesn't do it justice its in nr mint condition."

Many Thanks to WWDC member Stuart Bergman for sending me the excellent picture below of his Celtic find on a club dig in Buckinghamshire.

I can narrow down its identification to two types. It's either an uninscribed quarter stater of the Dobunni (Spink's 'Coins of England' no. 375, Van Arsdell 'Celtic Coinage of Britain, VA 1010-3), or a quarter stater of the same tribe, but inscribed COR (for Corio) on the obverse (Coins of England no. 387, VA 1039). The reverses of these two types are virtually identical. The chances are that it's the uninscribed type, because that's quite a lot more common - about 40 recorded at the Celtic coin index, compared to 13 for the Corio type. It is actually very difficult to tell which type it is, because on how worn the obverse is. The uninscribed quarter stater begins with a wreath design, but is often found with barely any traces of it remaining; the Corio quarter stater has just a simple COR on the obverse, with no other decoration, but again it can be very worn and difficult to make out.

Whichever type it is, the date of the coin is probably quite early, perhaps struck between about 45 and 30 BC. It's also an unusual find for Buckinghamshire: these are essentially coins of the Cotswolds, and they very rarely get any further east than the river Cherwell in Oxfordshire. So an interesting find all round.

Jason Gill found the coin below at a recent Buckinghamshire dig, Jason thought this coin was his first Roman find he cleaned the coin with an ultrasonic cleaner, before sending me the picture below which was identified on line by Paul Devenyi.

The coin is a silver unit of
Cunobelin, listed in Van Arsdell's 'Celtic Coinage of Britain' as VA 2059,
and in Spink's 'Coins of England' as no. 314. The obverse has a bust facing
right with the letters TASC behind the head, and IIOVANII in front,
representing the name of Cunobelin's father, Tasciovanus. On the reverse
there is a seated figure playing a lyre, with CVNOBE in front for Cunobelin.
Probably dates from 25 - 30 A.D.

Wanderers member Peter Brown has found yet another Celtic coin as pictured below.

Peter found the Minim shown above on a recent wanderers dig in Hampshire. Peter identified the coin on the Celtic coin index as being from the from the Atrebate's Tribe VA 564-1 it is about a 1/4 of the size of a 1/4 stater and weighs only 0.3 gms, it is so small he had trouble getting a good picture.

Congratulations to a new Wanderers member David Ulke who made the wonderful find below on his first outing with us.

The 1/4 Silver Stator was found by David on his very first outing with the club on a recent Hampshire club dig. David sent details of the coin to Chris Rudd who stated that it is a coin of the Atrebates and Regni, Commios Ladder Head Wheel silver
unit. References to the coin are contained in Van Arsdell 355-5, Britsih Museum Catalogue 758, Spink Coins of England 2003 edition no.69. Retail value (according to Spink) Fine Ł40, Very Fine Ł125. Thanks for sending me the pictures David

Wanderers member Peter Brown was understandably very pleased indeed to find the Celtic gold quarter Stater shown below.

The coin was positively identified by the Celtic Coin Index in Oxford as a previously unrecorded Celtic 1/4 Gold Stater. The coin bears similarities to some coins of the Atrebates tribe, the 'curtain' motif with the little hidden face is similar to that on the Danebury Type silver units and the horse is Atrebatic in style.

The pictures below show a silver Iron Age coin (Celtic) late 1st century BC to early 1st century AD Tasciovanus Horsman carrying Shield Found by Jim White at one of our recent Buckinghamshire digs. Photograhed by Graham Stringer.

The pictures above show Daniel's first Celtic coin find which is of the Catuvellauni tribe from the St Albans area, the ruler being Tasciovanus. The coin is dated from late first century BC to early first century AD. Daniel found this coin on a recent Weekend Wanderers outing in Buckinghamshire .

Many thanks go to Simon Kemp for sending me the pictures below of his recent Celtic gold Stater find at one of our recent Hertfordshire digs.

Simon tells me that he believes the coin to be from the Dubunnic tribe dates between the first century BC to the first century AD. It may be with the emblem R CORIO over a triple tailed horse. If any one can further ID this coin I will pass any e-mails on to Simon.

The Celtic unit found by young Jamie originates from a West Hampshire mint and was used by the Durotriges tribe in the mid 1st century BC to the mid 1st century AD. The blackening on the coin is a tar substance and as soon as the coin has been cleaned I will replace the pictures above.( Seabys 365)

We have done very well for Gold recently at our digs, Richard found this 1/4 gold Stater at one of our Hampshire digs recently dated from late first century

Vince found this full Stater in beautiful condition at one of our Hampshire digs recently. It would appear to be a British "Remic" type from around 50 BC.

Many thanks to Martin Weselby who sent me the fine pictures below as his first Celtic coin find in over 4 years of detecting, and what a find it was. Martin found this coin on one of the Weekend Wanderers digs in Buckinghamshire on the 4th of April.

Martin has identified this coin as No. 238 in the Seaby 1999 Yearbook, which describes it as a Silver Unit of Tasciovanus (Catuvellauni Tribe). The obverse shows "TASC" in a panel and the reverse shows a horseman carrying a long shield. The coin is dated from around late 1st century B.C.

More beautiful coins found by Dave namely a silver Stator and 3 units from Celtic times.

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