My first hoard - treasure.

Back in February I was on a dig with the Hyndburn and Ribble Valley Metal Detecting Club just outside Clitheroe. We had been to this farm a few times before but always different fields. After a couple of hours of nothing but a couple of buttons in a new field we could go back into previous detected fields in we wanted to. I soon found a bag seal which gave me hope and then I came across an iffy signal but I thought why not. A few minuted later I had the nice sight of a hammered coin sticking out of a clod of soil.

A couple of detectorist nearby came to have a look and where there when I opened the clod to see four more hammered coins all stuck together. Once I had calmed down a bit and slowly separated the coins there was in fact five more so a total of six Edward 1st silver pennies.

72 hours later I handed them over to the local FLO who was quite sure I'd get them back. After a few weeks I received a letter from the British Museum to say they had been disclaimed but I also recieved a letter from the coroner stating that he wanted to hold an inquest. At the inquest I gave my evidence and he too decided that they could be returned to myself and two weeks later they were.