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Awards and Prizes for season 2008/2009

The same awards and prizes are up for grabs again this year + free forum competition can win you a free weeks detecting tour. I have added a new award.

One of our club members fell in action on the 26th March 2008 while digging his last hole. Greg was great guy and a dedicated detectorist to the end still clutching his spade. A memorial to Greg is being placed by the field in which he fell. He 'died with his boots on' which is fitting end to any detectorist. The new Nova Scotia Greg award will be for the most 'dedicated detectorist of the year'.

Nova Scotia Greg award

Free weeks holiday, Silver Urn for 'find of the year'winner.

'Prolific coin finder' award and Tankard

Wayne Otto Memorial cup for the detectorist with the best attributes during the season

Forum competition - milled silver guess

Winners of this years 2007/8 awards were

Idaho Jim - forum competition

Billericay Mark - Wayne Otto Memorial cup

Ls Sal - Find of the year

Fl Mitch - 'coin hunter' of the year

Awards and Prizes for season 2007/2008

The win a 'free weeks holiday' forum comp was won by 'Idaho Jim' with a guess of 334 hammered silver coins found, actually number in the end was 335 which is an amazing total. Keep an eye on the site as I will be launching next years competition shortly. It will be to guess the number of milled silver coin found in the season 2008/2009 and the prize will be a free weeks inclusive holiday again.

Billericay Mark has been awarded the 'Wayne Otto Memorial cup' for the detectorist with the best attributes during the season. A very popular vote for a guy that cannot do enough for the other members with help, advice and the patience of a saint, congrats mate.

The 'prolific coin hunter' award will be announced after all the export contents have been processed and counted.

The same awards and prizes are up for grabs again this year + free forum competition can win you a free weeks detecting tour

Free weeks holiday, Silver Urn for 'find of the year'winner.

'Prolific coin finder' award and Tankard

Wayne Otto Memorial cup for the detectorist with the best attributes during the season

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Awards for Sept 2006/April 2007

Orlando Rolo wins 'coin hunter of the year'

His count included some very choice pieces like that stunning 1689 William and Mary silver three pence. Rolo gets his name on the shield of honour next to another previous Florida winner Daytona Steve. Congrat's to Rolo's for a lot of hard work and dedication he put in during his hunt. The Florida team are back in force again in Sept to try and keep the title

Congrats to Ohio Tony who wins the Wayne Otto Memorial cup for the detectorist with the best attributes during the season. Tony has ears like bat for finding silver hammered coins and he hand reared Yngve the Swede with great results as on Yngve's second trip this season he found 5 hammered silver coins.

Free weeks holiday & engraved silver silver Urn - voted by the guys hunting here as 'find of the year' in April. Won by NH Dave for his medieval Iconic gold ring find

'Prolific coin finder' award and Tankard - guy with the highest coin count for a week

Orlando Rolo

Wayne Otto Memorial cup for the detectorist with the best attributes during the season

Won by Ohio Tony

Free forumcompetition to win an ancient hammered gold coin

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April 2006 Winners of this years awards

Cal Jeff - wins find of the year 2005/6 for his brilliant Roman bronze winged Phallus pendant. Voted for my all the members. Jeff wins the free weeks holiday and is back in Sept 2006 to collect his prize that also includes the engraved silver Roman looking urn

This years new Wayne Otto memorial trophy goes to Tenn Earl for showing all the attributes that goes up to make a great detectorist. Always positive even when his X girlfriend drags him off the fields screaming to visit cloths shops LOL. Always the gent even where he is getting skunked and the guys around him are sucking up the good stuff. Earl spends time researching the history of the sites we hunt and is also well respected by all the members that joined him at this years Virginia hunt. Congrats Earl on a well deserved win.

Texas Dave won the 'Prolific coin finder' award and Tankard - guy with the highest coin count for a week

Up for grabs again this year Sept 2005/ April 2006

Free weeks holiday, Silver Urn for 'find of the year',

'Prolific coin finder' award and Tankard

Wayne Otto Memorial cup for the detectorist with the best attributes during the season

Free forum/club competition to win an ancient gold coin

Click here for more details of how to enter

9th Sept 2005 Forum competition winner

'Berkeley Bottle Boy' of the California Forum run by Cal Jeff won the Roman gold coin up for grabs for the closest guess in the forum competition. His guess of 2pm on the 8th was his birthday LOL.

11th April 2005 Boston Bill's Roman gold 4thC ring wins find of the year - Doug in SJ from the California Forum run by Cal Jeff and Dan wins the gold coins from the Forum competition having made the closest guess.

Boston Bill's superb find wins him 'find of the year' by a landslide vote from the club members. The ring has been officially declared treasure after an inquest at Colchester Coroners court. It is currently awaiting the outcome of the valuation committees finding.

Bill is pictured on the right next to Manhattan Gary.

Daytona Steve won the coin hunter of the year award, the English Pewter tankard

1st Jan 2005 All the prizes still up for grabs.

At the end of the first half of the season all the prizes are still easily up for grabs. I reckon the current 'find of the year winner' is probably Mass Bill with that beautiful Roman gold ring but Texas Dave's Celtic Stater was a stonking one LOL. Boston Will's 1250 BC axe head could also grab the voters attention as well. There is no really clear leader in the prolific coin hunter award that is around 75 coins at the moment and an easy target to beat especially with Canadian Rod returning to keep his crown.

Finally only 2 of the 6 seeded gold coins have been found which means Loditom is still leading in this competition with the closet guess.

28th April 2004 - Land slide Victory for Mass Bruce's axe head hoard

With two days to go before the closing of the election Bruce's axe head hoard has already stormed to victory !! Well deserved win.

With over 80% of the possible votes having already been cast the axe head hoard has taken 64% of them. They cannot now be overtaken so therefore it wins the 'find of the year' first prize easily this year. Bruce's nearest rival the Saxon gold dagger piece was 2nd with 19% of the votes. Congrats to Bruce who wins a 9 day inclusive free detecting holiday here, the Roman looking silver urn and most importantly his name on the role of honour shield. Check out Bruce's own axe hoard report to see how it did it and most amazingly it was on the last full hunt of the season !! Talk about cutting it fine !

The BIG prize goes to the 'find of the year' winner. This is judged by all those detecting on the land of their 'favourite' find during the season Sept to April. Each guy gets one vote and cannot vote for any finds they made ( you would all end up with one vote !!) . The find with the most votes wins the top prize. Obviously anyone including myself associated in any way with Colchestertreasurehunting cannot win.

The winner gets his name etched on a second shield which is kept here . Their prize is one weeks inclusive detecting holiday totally free. They also get one of these very smart Roman looking jug/urn etched to commemorate their find and posted to them.( I would like one of these myself as it is really heavy!)

A bit of fun and healthy competition to this seasons hunts is the introduction of some awards and prizes to be won.

Last year we had an unofficial ongoing tally of the guy that found the most coins in any one weeks detecting period. It started as a bit of fun and become more competitive as a guy realised he might take the title with only a day to go. Texas Mike held it for quite a while with 53 and it was closely ran event during the season until Vancouver Brent nipped the title from Canadian Rod with 64 coins. Boston Bud got excited and said look 'I have won, I have found 101 coins ' sorry Budd it is 64 coins per week not two weeks !!!

So to honour this achievement I have commissioned a large shield for the years most prolific coin finder. The first years winner is Brent Axleson who's name is being etched on the role of honour which will be kept here. The winner picks one of the three very smart polished English pewter tankards which I will have engraved and sent to him to remember his achievement.

Canadian Rod picked up this years award with an amazing 92 coins on the last hunt of the season. The bulk of the coins found are normally 1600 to 1900's coppers, very really few modern coins are found on these fields.

The 2004/2005 season cup is now up for grabs !