A good read indeed. I used to frequent an "adventure playground" in my youth, built & run by local older kids on a derelict gasworks site. 20 years later they had to strip off the top 8ft of soil before building on it as it was "toxic"......never done me any harm!! Worrying ...

Must try and get one..

Donnydave wrote:Lovely find but I thought metal detecting had been banned in Ireland

Southern Ireland ,Dave

It's certainly not off a 1938 Morris 8 is it ?

Apologies if this has already been posted. Cross and bed found in Anglo-Saxon grave shed new light on 'dark ages' Archaeologists in Cambridge thrilled to discover grave with body of young woman on a bed with an ornate gold cross http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/mar/16/cross-bed-anglo-saxon-gra...

This really annoys me. On the news today all and sundry were salivating on the prospects of this massive sale of important British history being broken up and sold off for record prices, and in the process being distributed around the world. I believe that the poster was only one of hundreds of item...

The Furness district has become a bit of a hotspot for treasure finds in recent months.

Signed and posted the link on Facebook

"This is history. We bear witness to that fateful day 200 years ago," Ambassador Jorge Dezcallar de Mazar said. "This is not money. This is historical heritage."



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Reading the comments at the bottom of the link page ...it seems it may well not be detectorists that have done all the damage but Doreen's doggie colleagues who have allowed their charges to dig up the field.

That's nice ..I like it a lot.

Wow what a find to have under your belt.

Having experienced the first few dull episodes of this new series I think the program is doomed whether or not he stays or goes.

I seem to think I have heard of things being undervalued somewhere else.....