[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by disco

Hi All

i just thought you might be interested to know.

I was out metal detecting about a six weeks ago near to the Kings Highway. After about an hour of finding nothing but bullets buried three to four inches deep, I was most interested to receive a signal on my detector reading seven inches deep, so out came the trowel and down i went. I was very pleased indeed to find at about nine inches deep a James 1st silver sixpence. It is not in the best of condition but you can see what it is and it is dated 1603.

As I stood up and looked across Accrington and beyond I tried to imagine what the person who last held this coin could see. I am sure it would not have been the Tesco, Railway Viaduct or Express gifts in the distance.
I would guess the coin had been under the ground at the very least three hundred yours.

This is the second of my three hammered coins that i have found in the two years that i have been metal detecting

Those old bullets would have come from the old rifle range at Hapton, they would be .303, I've found MkII, MkVI and MkVII on that range, it was closed down in early 1960 because of rock falls behind the butt stops were causing dangerous ricochetes. The Kings Highway was the old route to Rossendale & was the only route for 100's of years until Blind Jack o Knaresborough built Whalley Rd, and Manchester Rd, through Accy in the late 1700's.