May 9th. 2011.
Next
club meeting Monday 6th June 2011.
Meetings are held
at the
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Skittles Evening
The annual
skittles social, which took place on the 7th May, was a very enjoyable evening
for the 18 members and guests who attended.
The warm up game
of boys versus girls, where the aim is to achieve the highest score, turned out
to be a draw. A three way play off for those who achieved the individual
highest scores eventually resulted in a win for Stacy.
The next game
sounded very easy -just knock down at least one skittle. Not a problem until
one realises that the skittles are only reset when
all have been knocked down. Thus, as the game progresses for some there is
very little to aim at resulting in rapid elimination. The eventual winner was? You've
guessed it Stacy!
Following our hot
buffet and coffee we started the final game which really sorts em out - knock down just one skittle. Easy
? not at all. Having failed to achieve a good
score in the highest score game it is amazing how the skittles start flying
when you aim to miss most of them. Once again elimination can be quite rapid,
in some cases very rapid. Here Stacey's luck ran out and the eventual winner
was guest Giles.
As usual, each of
the winners received a bottle of wine. Many thanks to all who
attended and contributed to such an enjoyable evening.
May Meeting
For our May
meeting, we had the pleasure of receiving the Chairman of Worthing
and District Numismatic Society, Derek Aldred. Derek
spoke about the Beachy Head Hoards of 3rd
Century Roman Coins.
Derek began by
explaining that in the region of 570 hoards of 3rd Century coins
have been found in the
Before Derek went
into detail on the Beachy Head hoards, he commented
that whilst over 17,000 sounds a lot, the largest hoard was found in
Marlborough in the 1970’s – this was 54,951 coins! Yes, fifty-four thousand
nine hundred and fifty-one!
Moving back to
Into the 20th
Century, and 1914 finds 550 coins recovered by Walter Marand
– the first few of these having been dug up by rabbits! A bit of a gap to 1961
which saw a hoard of 5296 bronze coins found in a jar by plough! This was found
by the land-owner, who also found another hoard in 1964 of 3173 silver coins,
and co-found a third in 1973 of 5546 bronze – the other co-finder was none
other than our speaker! These last three were all found within about 50ft of
each other, and the 1973 hoard was one of the earliest in the
We were then
pleased to be shown some further pictures of the area, as well as some of the
1973 hoard in situ. Derek also passed around a clump of about 10 coins that had
become stuck together during their 1700 year wait to be dug up – again, as
found.
The 20 members in
attendance all voiced their appreciation of the talk, and several questions and
answers followed. Derek had also brought along a tray of some of the coins of
the later three hoards, as well as other examples of coins from the period.
We thank Derek for
coming to speak for us, and hope that he will return in a few years time –
maybe with another hoard under his belt!
Future Events
Past Events
·
10 years ago – “English Banknotes” – John Keyworth
·
40 years ago – “Roman
Coins and their Relation to History” – Mr B.H. Grove
Club
Secretary