(source: www.culture24.org.uk/)
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The story behind the huge Anglo-Saxon coin hoard found in Buckinghamshire.
Four days before Christmas, a metal detecting rally in Buckinghamshire revealed one of the largest Anglo-Saxon coin hoards ever found in Britain, touted in the national press as being worth £1 million. Finds Liaison Officer Ros Tyrrell tells Culture24 the full story.
Two good articles.
Portable Antiquities Scheme finds at the British Museum.
You might think that the archaeological objects we see in museums are all found by archaeologists, using their skills and knowledge to locate potential sites and then digging carefully into the earth to find them.Many objects are indeed found this way, but some are found by ordinary members of public, such as metal detectorists sweeping their apparatus across farmland, or a walker strolling along a familiar field. They are not experts – so how can they find out more about these objects?
(source: http://www.culture24.org.uk/
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Being a detectorist has its moments to treasure.
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Being a detectorist has its moments to treasure.
Like all the best hobbies, metal detecting is far more about human interest than getting rich quick. For most of us the true value of the things we find is human. These are the relics not of famous kings and saints but of ordinary people.
(source: Mark Wallace theguardian.com)
Saturday 3 January 2015.
Saturday 3 January 2015.
(NEWS) - Reports of two more hoards found.
Reports on other forums of a Saxon hoard coming up on today's Weekend
Wanderers Christmas dig.Over a thousand coins of Cnut and Ethelred found
with a Deus.
Together with a team of archaeologists, Mr McPherson discovered a hoard of Roman and Pictish silver in a farmer's field. It has been hailed as the most northern of its kind in Europe.
Together with a team of archaeologists, Mr McPherson discovered a hoard of Roman and Pictish silver in a farmer's field. It has been hailed as the most northern of its kind in Europe.
(NEWS) - A Louis the Pious Imitation Solidus found by a detectorist.
A Louis the Pious Imitation Solidus. c.816
Details of the coin can be found here at the Spink Auction Page.
For one lucky detectorist back in September of this year, he set off out on a hunt just like I expect we all do, dreaming of a nice find, and boy did his dream come true. He found the gold coin above, it was only about 4" deep so any machine would have found it. That coin yesterday sold at auction for £36,000. What a result.
Good news for the finder and good news for the landowner. What a happy Christmas they'll have.
(NEWS) - Viking Treasure Restored to its Former Glory.
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A
spectacular hoard of valuables, thought to be the life savings of a rich
Viking, have been painstakingly restored to their gleaming former
glory.
The
incredibly rare lot - which is thought to date back to the late ninth
or early 10th century - was discovered in May 2012 by metal detector
enthusiasts near Bedale, in North Yorkshire.
(source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk
Metal Detecting Treasure News.
(source:theconversation.com)
Metal detecting enthusiast Derek McLennan's recent discovery of
Viking-age artefacts at a site in Dumfries and Galloway is both
spectacular and ...
(source:bbc.co.uk)
The amateur metal detector, who unearthed a massive hoard of Viking treasure in Scotland, has been telling Newsround how he did it....
(source:theconversation.com)
What were Vikings doing in Dumfriesshire at this time? While the area is
not a major highway for commerce in the present day, if we go back
1,000 years, things looked rather different. The Irish Sea was a key
route for Viking ships sailing between Scandinavia, continental Europe
and Ireland.
(source:birminghammail.co.uk)
The Hoard was found by metal detectorist Terry Herbert in a farmer's field near Hammerwich, Staffordshire in 2009 and is Britain's largest ever ...
Viking treasure haul unearthed in Scotland.
A haul of Viking treasure has been unearthed from a field in south west Scotland by an amateur using a metal detector.
In total, more than 100 items were recovered, including armbands, a cross and brooches.
Experts have said the discovery is one of the most important Viking hoards ever found in Scotland.
Experts have said the discovery is one of the most important Viking hoards ever found in Scotland.
(Source: .bbc.co.uk)
,,,,,And Another Roman Hoard Comes To Light.
Seaton Down Hoard: Amateur metal detector uncovers 22,000 Roman coins
Again another metal detectorist hits the headlines this weekend after discovering a hoard of Roman coins. Comprising of about 22,000 coins dating back more than 1,700 years, it is the fifth largest find of Roman coins in Britain. ....The metal detectorist called in the experts and watched amazed as archaeologists discovered thousands more coins buried about a foot deep. To ensure the site was not tampered with Mr Egerton slept in his car nearby “for three cold nights” until the dig was finished....
.... The British Museum called the scale of the find “remarkable", adding that it was "one of the largest hoards ever found within the whole Roman Empire”. The largest find in Britain was the Cunetio Hoard of almost 55,000 coins discovered near Mildenhall, Wiltshire in 1978....
.... One of the coins is particularly special. It marks the one millionth find of the Portable Antiquities Scheme, set up in 1997 to provide a record of all the finds brought in by members of the public.....
*UPDATE*
A Roman Hoard from the end of an Empire.
As Roman Hoards are on a few people's minds at the moment I'd thought I'd share this story with you that I have just come across. A great story from the Netherlands showing how metal detectorists and archaeologists can work together.
....Dutch archaeologists have recently completed the rescue excavation of a unique treasure hoard dating to the beginning of the 5th century AD, from a field in Limburg. The hoard partially consists of a combination of gold coins and pieces of silver tableware which had been deliberately cut up (hacksilver).
.... In 1990, a farmer from Echt working in his field picked up two gold coins. However, one of the coins fell out of his hands and despite frantically searching, he couldn’t locate it. At the start of 2014, he took his nephew to the original find spot and using a metal detector they were able to find five more gold coins. The new finds were reported and archaeologists carried out a rescue excavation where they located the pit in which the treasure had originally been placed...
Fantastic Roman Hoard Find.
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| A budding archaeologist in the making. |
On arriving home from work late on Sunday night I did what I usually do and log onto my favourite metal detecting forum to read all about the days finds. I always think Sundays are the most popular detecting days where most detectorists are able to get out swinging and there is always an array of great finds to drool over. Well, this past Sunday was no exception, plenty of great finds made by many, but there was one find that really stood out, a Roman Hoard. A detectorists dream find of a large Roman Urn filled with Roman coins. What a find.
After reading about this hoard find I knew it wouldn't stay up on the forum for very long because once the archaeo-bloggers got wind of it they would play the usual 'The despoiling of Britain's archaeological record' and 'The destruction of context' cards. I was right, first thing in the morning the post on the forum was gone and a anti-metal detecting blog near you was ripping the story to shreds. How they can call it the destruction of our heritage is beyond me, this find has added to our heritage. If these detectorists never found this hoard it would still be buried in the ground oblivious to all.
Here's a point, what if the farmer decided to do a deep plough and hit the Urn scattering its contents all over the field. Would the archaeo-bloggers scream and stamp their feet then. After all the urn would be destroyed and any 'context' surrounding the Urn would be obliterated. At least the detectorists here who found this hoard kept everything intact, now if the archaeologists want they can go in and examine the pit with their tiny cake slicers.
That aside and getting back to the hoard find which was found on a club dig, the way the story was told and the great photos that were shown made me think that the finders ought to be congratulated. In my eyes they did everything the right way that most most of us would have done. They carefully excavated the Urn taking great care not to damage it and took some amazing photos of the procedure. The FLO was informed so the find was recorded and another piece of our heritage recorded for future generations.
Well done lads, a great find and something most of us only dream about.... even archaeologists.
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