Annual Awards for 2004

The awards for 2004 were presented during the monthly meeting held on January 24th 2005. Paul Rainford was once again re-elected as Club Chairman, and members voted for Mike Apps to continue in his role of Club Secretary, a position he took up as Mark Benwell stepped down late in 2004. Many thanks for all your hard work, Mark!

Mark Gatter was re-elected to the committee as Public Relations Officer, and he would like to take this opportunity to apologise for the lack of recent website updates. Alas, circumstances will also prevent him from attending the next few Club meetings, but fortunately his photography tasks have been assumed by Jim Walmsley. Mark will continue to update the website as frequently as CDs from Jim allow!

Awards were presented in the following categories:

Coin of the Year

Paul Rainford (left) presents the award to Carl Walmsley who won with his Spanish gold escudo piece of eight (see right).


2nd in this category was Carl, again, for a German hammered gold coin of 1460
3rd was Margaret Hamilton with a Saxon sceatta, 81b type 27b, circa 680-710


Artifact of the Year

Chairman Paul Rainford presents the award to Alan Maidment who won with a Roman fibula wing fanbow brooch (see right).


2nd in this category was Carl Walmsley with a Celtic terret ring.
3rd was Paul Miller with a bronze Roman military buckle of the 1st-2nd Century.



Beach Find of the Year

Paul Rainford presents the award to Margaret Hamilton who won with a gold and diamond ring (see right)


2nd and 3rd in this category was Dave Cobb with a gold ring and a gold and diamond ring, respectively..

Detectorist of the Year

This award was won by Dave Cobb, who also won the award for

Display of the Year

Congratulations, Dave!


2nd in this category was Margaret Hamilton.
3rd was Hugh Vincent.


Club Person of the Year

This is awarded to the person deemed to have most benefitted the club during the preceeding year. And...Mark Gatter won it for keeping the website happening (more or less). As he couldn't attend, there's no pic... serves him right!

Congratulations to everyone!

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