What a laugh,
best giggle in a long time

''The counter may or may not be a precise reflection of the rate of depletion''

Or might just be a total fabrication,
based on the single minded ambition
of a very anti detecting individual
who seeks to damage the hobby,
who is loosing the plot........

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Or might just be a total fabrication

Indeed, that's possible. But I'm more than content to let the general public decide for themselves.

What is crucially important is that those thousands who make their passion in life removing the country's archaeological record bit by bit for their own private benefit or profit shouldn't be the ones they listen to.
Soon, you and your 'istry loving mates will have hoiked out ten million hartefax, and all for the entire benefit of the rest of us, eh?

Conservation as recommended by self-interested eroders exists in no other field and no other country - for extremely good reasons.

And their only defence isn’t to point to the fact they report to PAS as they mostly don’t, but to post endless "good news" stories seeking to pretend they do and to say that those that point to what they really do seek to "damage the hobby”. Too damn right they do. Brilliantly worked out.

TV DIGGER TO FOCUS ON FORT

ATV archaeologist is to probe the history of Fort William, it was announced yesterday.

Dr Tony Pollard, who presented BBC Two's Two Men In A Trench, will head a team of experts aiming to reveal how the town helped shape the modern Highlands.

Daily Record

Gardens’ metal mystery is solved

STAFF at Aberglasney Gardens have identified the mystery object found by a visitor in the grounds.

The rusty piece of metal was handed in by the visitor who spotted it in the stream which flows through the gardens in the Tywi Valley of Carmarthenshire.

IC Wales

Interesting story from Wales.

Mediaeval Women had 'Girl Power'

Oooops! Posted that in the wrong place!

Treasure trove is found in Cumbria

AN ALADDIN’S cave of treasure has been found in Cumbria.

A medieval silver brooch, 16 coins and 253 bits of broken Viking silver went before a treasure trove inquest in Penrith this week when south and east Cumbria coroner Ian Smith declared them officially treasure.

Cumberland News

Roman grave dug up at Corfe Castle

EXCITEMENT is growing over the discovery of a suspected Roman grave at Corfe Castle.
Corfe Castle was in the spotlight after a metal detectors' club event at Norden Farm uncovered the find.

Dorset Echo

Detector unearths rare silver hook

A SILVER dress hook discovered by a member of the Kendal Metal Detecting Club has been classed as a treasure by coroners in Lancaster.

Westmorland Gazette

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Originally posted by Tetricus:
Roman grave dug up at Corfe Castle

EXCITEMENT is growing over the discovery of a suspected Roman grave at Corfe Castle.
Corfe Castle was in the spotlight after a metal detectors' club event at Norden Farm uncovered the find.

Dorset Echo

This has turned out not to be a grave, but a wall footing.
Lots of good finds recorded over the weekend though.

Giant meteorite found in Kansas to be sold at auction next month

A 1,410-pound meteorite, wrenched two years ago from a wheat field near Greensburg, Kan., is going up for auction next month, with an estimated price that’s out of this world.

Meteorite Story

Roman coin find



TWO Roman coins unearthed at South Park in Reigate by a metal detecting club are to be studied and dated by experts.

The Reigate-based East Surrey Search and Recovery Group made the discovery last Sunday in a field.

Now, David Williams, Surrey County Council's finds liaison officer, is to examine the finds and record details of their locations.

The first coin was detected by Steve Harvey, of Salfords, and is thought to be a 2nd century sestertius. Daniel Whiteman discovered the second, much smaller coin, minutes later and just yards away. It is believed to be a 4th century nummus.

Mysterious timepiece under the hammer

With its unusual markings, it looks like something that JK Rowling might have dreamt up to feature in a Harry Potter novel.

EDP24

300,000 artefacts recorded

Today is quite momentous for the Portable Antiquities Scheme. Charlotte Burrill, Finds Liaison Officer for Berkshire & Oxfordshire recorded the 300,000th object onto the Scheme’s database.

See here.....

A little more on the above.

24Hr Museum

"momentous"

How telling that it should be a detectorist that describes it thus. PAS didn't.

Three recorded objects per detectorist per year!

What would you have the public believe - that that represents a significant percentage of the objects they have pulled out of the ground and that the hobby is full of right-thinking heritage heroes who do right by society in response to a multi-million pound investment of public funds?

Probably.

I'm sure the previous comment was as complimentary as ever, and added something to the forum.

Rolling Stones legend visits Coldingham Priory

'YOU got the silver' maybe a Rolling Stones' song but it could also have been used as the theme tune of Bill Wyman's metal detecting visit to Coldingham Priory - when all the former bassist found was a 50 pence!

Berwickshire News

ROMAN WINE DRINKING RELICS ACQUIRED BY SALISBURY MUSEUM

Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum has acquired a hoard that recalls the bacchanalian antics of Britain’s occupiers from the early centuries AD. The five-piece hoard consists of Roman vessels used in the serving and drinking of wine, which are the first items of their kind to be added to the museum collection.

24Hr Museum

Norfolk: the treasure hunter's dream


Norfolk has been revealed as the treasure hunting hotspot of Britain after records showed it yielded nearly half the total archaeological finds in the country over the past year.

EDP 24

Royal jewellery unearthed

A ROYAL Anglo-Saxon burial ground and some of the finest gold jewellery ever unearthed in the country has been discovered by a freelance archaeologist in the North-East.

The Northern Echo

300,000 archaeological finds recorded in first 10 years of Portable Antiquities Scheme

Details Here

Detectorist discovers Roman Coffin

A Roman skeleton dating back 2,000 years has been unearthed after it was spotted by a member of the public in a farmer's field in North Yorkshire.

BBC News

KEN FINDS HIS MIDAS TOUCH IN THE FIELDS

Fields of gold could be lacing the countryside after a second ancient coin was discovered.

Ken Jacobs (60), chairman of the Scunthorpe Metal Detectors' club, found a whole noble - dating from the 14th century - in a field near Winteringham.

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