That was an interesting read thank you

That will have me searching every church I visit I wonder if it is just the UK churches or if it is a world wide thing

Interesting read I would like to know who the detectorists where though

If I remember correctly the old licence was something like 50p from the post office and was some sort of radio transmitting licence or something daft like that

Permit is all well and good but it could be unfair to a lot of detectorists giving an advantage to younger people in full time employment and just extra expense for the older detectorist that as been detecting years and now managing on the lowest basic pension in Europe. And going back to the treasu...

Nice couple Adam & Lisa I have met them on a dig once in Lincolnshire, they are a very knowledgeable couple om most finds, they seem to be very apt at finding gold staters also

A bad day for our hobby idiots

Saw this on twitter and thought it was interesting. :g50: https://www.measuringworth.com/calculators/ppoweruk/ So an Edward I penny had an equivalent worth of about £63 in labour in AD 1270. Bet they were miffed at losing them then, especially purse losses! That makes finding hammered coins even mo...

It looks very much like our own night soil fields and normal farmers lost scrap with a few decent silver coins coming up

There was 1017 Denarii altogether, but there are problems, the FLO did not turn up, so they dug them out themselves, with the farmers permission, the area is plagued with night hawks, so the general opinion is they took the right choice. The archeologists have been and checked out the dig site and a...

Over a thousand Denarius but I was not there just got the details from the Facebook page, I know the finder was someone called Tony Appleyard.

One of our lucky members found this little lot today on the club dig By the way he was using a Deus

An interesting read

I have got permission on this same farm, I spent a week up there a few summers back and I found only Victorian coins on the pasture, but the farmer told me about the stone altar in Carlisle museum :g58: He also told me about a detectorist searching the same spot for days on end on the ploughed land ...