Now that many fields are cropped finding sites always starts to be a problem. Fortunately we secured permission for a new search area, an ancient village stuffed with medieval moated sites in the surrounding woodland. We searched several fields and found Georgian coins, thimbles and buckles, but not a hint of anything older. After hours it was quit or do one more field time, so we decided of course to do another field closer to the village. Once again Georgian coinage and buckles, but several bullets and fragments of aeroplane also turned up. At the top end of the field a pair of Peewits clearly had a nest in the area, as the kept dive bombing us ... so we moved away back down to a thick hedge bounding another moated site. The area around the hedge was, as expected, full of shot gun tips, but one signal seemed different. Digging it from the fine soil I saw the glint of gold. Gently cleaning it in the field I thought it could be Saxon. However when I returned home I carefully cleaned it ... and what was it?