The Kendal and District Metal Detecting club has always offered a free lost and found service in and around the Lake District, and today we were pleased to reunite a gentleman from Lowgill with his lost keys.
It was not the easiest of searches as the train line was setting the detector off with false signals, so we had to use pinpoint mode and finish the search with a probe.
Ten minutes in though, the keys were found, the gentleman was delighted, and a new friend of the club had been made.
To Put this post into context, and think about the Romans and the quality of their skills we are looking at the quality of their sculpting of coin dies.
Just over 2000 years ago, when Jesus was walking the earth, the quality of the coin portraits was stunning, and this continued into the 3rd Century when a crisis in the Roman empire saw the gradual down grading in the quality of portraits.
The coin of Augustus (above) dates from 2BC – 13AD.
The Coin Below dates from around 150 years later, and you can still see the quality of the workmanship
However by the times of Constantine III, 407-411 AD the quality of workmanship had degraded quite a lot
we have the Oliver Cromwell, Silver Halfcrown, dating from AD 1656 and we are starting to come back to a standard to reflect the skill of craftsmanship of the Romans, and probably not a coincidence that the description of this coin would reflect the coins from “one thousand 600 years earlier”.
laureate and draped bust left
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Many thanks to all those that attended the meeting last night, and many thanks to Dot Boughton for her talk on the Silverdale Hoard.
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