My son is 13 and plays football for a team in the Bristol league, but also for the school, it would be devestating to have this happen, I can't imagine how the family feel after this sad episode. Thank goodness it is a rare thing as you say Liz.

Terrible tradegy as you say Steve.

Yep a good selection there Tom

Well slap my a**e! ..............That'll be one token please

I wonder what position the guy was in when he found he couldn't pay

Definitely another great edition, well done to all those involved!

Too right, would have made more sense though if it had come up on a swede

The trouble with this case was that most people know about the Treasure Act and the 300 year limit, but very few people know that the old Treasure Trove Act is still in place and will continue to do so. It basicially acts on the premis that any hoard of gold or silver is the possesion of whoever lef...

Definately connected to the god Mercury, worshiped in temple sites in and around Cirencester, he had an amazing cult under way in the Gloucestershire region, with statues, alters, curse tablets and intaglios with his form or name inscribed on all of them. Uley, Nettleton, Aquae Sulis (Bath), Lydney,...

Nice one Gaz, excellent!

To obtain a National Grid Reference of your find spot without a GPS follow the guidance on the PAS website; http://finds.org.uk/guide/torecording/gridreferences My personal choice would be to use 'Wheresthepath', the 10 figure National Grid Reference can be obtained just by hovering the mouse over t...

You're welcome Alan, it won't happen again :emb1:

I've invented time travel, so I went and had a look and its not bad, all I need to do is go and kidnap some people from the past to get them going in making and losing stuff

Firstly this is down to me, I had a pm asking to cancel a dig on the 11th by Mark of 3Counties digs, looks like in my haste that I genuinely cancelled the wrong event for which I can only apologize. so will put things right again in the first one and then go and cancel Marks dig. As a member of the ...

Me neither, water detecting is for frogs

Wonder if you can detect there...plenty of land to go around, just hope the Roman's got there first