Why is this on eBay? Does the landowner know? Where are the proceeds going?
Archaeological find Time Team "Here’s a chance to own a piece of history as identified by the Time Team big Royal dig whilst digging in the garden of Buckingham Palace (the queens back garden.) This is a 1 inch copper stud from around 1640 claimed by the Time Team to be part of a royalist (Charles 1st) or parliamentary (Cromwell) Civil war soldier’s uniform, the stud was one of only a hand full of items found on this time team dig".
Is the seller karltonw123 a member of the Time Team, or does he have their blessing flogging off finds apparently purportedly from excavations in "the Queen's back garden"? He also sells digging tools for metal detectorists and bottle dump stuff.... What is going on?
Originally posted by BAJR: it was not a time team find.
This is not what the seller's description asserts. Although ambiguously phrased, he says "the stud was one of only a hand full of items found on THIS time team dig" rather than "found on THAT Time Team dig".
Since the seller is based in Yorkshire, it may be legitimate to ask him, if his identification ofthe object (achieved no doubt after exhaustive research), is correct, from what Civil War period site DID this stud come from then? Could it be from Marston Moor for example? I guess we will never know...
I suspect that the seller (if challenged) would have admitted that the stud he was offering was similar to the one found at Buckingham Palace, and that he was simply referring to the TT Big Royal Dig as providing an identification of the type. But the wording was misleading in the extreme, particularly the heading.
PS It is however crystal clear which TT dig he was referring to - the one at Buck House, where there were only a handful of finds, including the Civil War stud.
The item for sale did not come from any Time Team dig, rest assured.
