History Hunts

I’m fresh back from my Spring England detecting tour and happy to report that we had an amazing time. My team made some incredible finds. The guys were troopers. They endured rain (I’m pretty sure it was hailing on us at one point) and some brutal sun (abnormally high temps the last days of the hunt) to seek out history in the fields surrounding Colchester. As always, we've reported all "treasure" and find coordinates to the British Museum for review. Allow me to first introduce you to this excellent condition 1st Century BC to 1st Century AD lead Woad Grinder (alternate spelling: wode) found by Texas Scott W. Woad, an herb plant in the cabbage family, was used by the Celts to create a blue