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Gary's Detecting forum => General detecting talk => Topic started by: mason on January 09, 2019, 06:29 pm

Title: Why so much lead?
Post by: mason on January 09, 2019, 06:29 pm

Me and a mate have been detecting a field and have been finding loads of roman coins,
but for every coin we find we have to dig about ten to twenty bits of lead before we find a coin.
Can anyone shed any light  as to why so much lead would be around these roman coins?

Title: Re: Why so much lead?
Post by: JBM on January 09, 2019, 06:40 pm

What colour is the lead?
Jerry.

Title: Re: Why so much lead?
Post by: mason on January 09, 2019, 07:27 pm

Hi Jerry its mainly white.

Title: Re: Why so much lead?
Post by: JBM on January 09, 2019, 10:09 pm

Very likely old Roman lead.

We get the same at a old Roman site where lead was produced and some was turned into large ingots known as (Pigs).

These were then shipped to Italy via the Bristol Channel.

Happy Hunting,

Jerry.

Title: Re: Why so much lead?
Post by: unclened on January 10, 2019, 03:10 pm

Same in this area thus my user name UNCLE NED

Title: Re: Why so much lead?
Post by: Keith67 on January 10, 2019, 08:08 pm

Quote from: unclened on January 10, 2019, 03:10 pm

Same in this area thus my user name UNCLE NED

For some weird reason I always thought it stood for un - clened, don't asked me why  ???

Title: Re: Why so much lead?
Post by: Ghost on February 01, 2019, 12:28 pm

Collect it and melt it into a bar, paint it gold .

Then put it in the bin 2 weeks later the novelty of making a heavy gold bar has gone .

😀