Messing About on the River

Helen and I had another great day out in Canterbury last Saturday. We went to the Marlowe to see the G B Shaw play 'You Never Can Tell' starring Edward Fox and it was really good, especially Edward Fox. But before that, it was nice sunny afternoon so we had another lovely trip in a punt from Westgate Towers to the Millers Arms. The picture shows the Westgate Towers, taken from the boat.

Finds

My week's detecting has been quite interesting - lots of bits and pieces, buttons, buckles etc.. One Edward hammmered penny, five 4th century Roman bronze coins and I thought I had a Roman silver but it turned out to be a plated forgery. That's the second forged Roman silver from this farm, you can't trust these Romano-Brits, can you? Of the more interesting artefacts there is a pewter dagger pommel and one of those sheet metal rivets.