This is great.......... :g58: Google has added Pompeii to its Street View application, allowing internet users to take a 360-degree virtual tour of the ancient Roman city. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8394384.stm and http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&am...

ROME — Italian officials unveiled new discoveries Thursday in an ancient Roman luxury complex filled with priceless mosaics, elegant porticos and thermal baths.

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Source: Associated Press - 3/12/2009

Great stuff Phil.............. .........I wondered if you had been involved.....

Is that Elly Fiorentini doing the interviewing?

Trouble is we would miss a site like this generally by discriminating out the iron. There may only be very few "other" metallic objects on such a site that would not indicate it's real importance. It shows how metal detectors can be used successfully on an archaeological dig though...........

HISTORIANS and metal detector enthusiasts believe they have found York’s first metal recycling centre – dating back to 1066. http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/4769193.Viking____recycling____centre_discovered_at_battle_of_Fulford_site_near_York/ Source: The York Press (Newsquest Media Group) - 1/12/2009

There is a new, updated edition of this book due out in March next year Pete..................available for pre-order on Amazon at £30.00............

Superb issue...........the amount of useful and fascinating information this month is outstanding.............well done all and thanks for a great read............

That's a good link Barry.................great information.............

Thank you Paul and nice to hear from you...........

And in the newspapers we get slagged off by the archies. Also it gives the headline "How the Battle of Bosworth was lost", and not a word about how it was lost !! I think that is a journalist trying to be clever Ray and referring to how the real battlefield was "lost" until this...

Great article Barry. I just checked some of my bronze vessel pieces and a couple have the brush marks on from painting the slip onto the moulds as described................

Four silver coins dating from Norman England have been found in Gloucestershire.

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Source: BBC News

The guy in the picture is the local FLO not the finder.....

StuE wrote:

petethedig wrote:and of course your profile will show you as a contributor.

So is that automatic then Pete?

No Stu............you gotta jog our memories a few times first..............

Three more for you Stu.

All found near Louth, Lincolnshire.

1. 20mm x 24mm including tang. Crown just visible above a shield.
2. 26mm x 28mm. 2532 on one side. S & Co. on other side.
3. 28mm x 24mm. Odd shape and markings?

Tom..........