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- Fri Apr 22, 2016 3:46 pm
- Forum: LATEST NEWS
- Topic: Rare Coin Find Sparks Journey for Metal Detecting
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4367
Rare Coin Find Sparks Journey for Metal Detecting
https://vineyardgazette.com/news/2016/04/21/rare-coin-find-sparks-journey-metal-detecting-hobbyist It is the oldest coin known to have been found on Martha’s Vineyard — so old that Thomas Mayhew, the proprietor who settled the Island in 1642, might have held it in his hand. The coin is a 1652 pine t...
- Tue Apr 19, 2016 3:13 pm
- Forum: LATEST NEWS
- Topic: The Science behind the Staffordshire Hoard
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6150
Re: The Science behind the Staffordshire Hoard
The exhibit in Birmingham is well worth a visit, done it now 4 times in the last few years.
Re: Bing Map
You can get the blue 30's OS 25K map as well board on that site, the Scott's are well on board.
- Sat Mar 12, 2016 10:54 am
- Forum: LATEST NEWS
- Topic: Viking Crucifix
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5793
Viking Crucifix
http://scienceblogs.com/aardvarchaeology/2016/03/12/viking-crucifix/ Metal detectorist Dennis Fabricius Holm made a pretty sweet find yesterday: the third known Birka crucifix. These little wonders of 10th century goldsmith work are named for the first find, made in 1879 when Hjalmar Stolpe excavate...
- Fri Mar 11, 2016 11:10 am
- Forum: LATEST NEWS
- Topic: Discuss The Benefits Of Metal Detectorists
- Replies: 15
- Views: 16716
Re: Discuss The Benefits Of Metal Detectorists
Did not this young lady post on here a few years ago asking questions of detectorists. No Barry that was Felicity Winckley, working with Sam Moorhead. She came over to interview me and have a walk around some of my detecting sites. She was looking at detectorists' attitudes to the land they detecte...
- Thu Mar 10, 2016 4:34 pm
- Forum: LATEST NEWS
- Topic: Discuss The Benefits Of Metal Detectorists
- Replies: 15
- Views: 16716
Re: Discuss The Benefits Of Metal Detectorists
Did not this young lady post on here a few years ago asking questions of detectorists.
- Wed Mar 09, 2016 10:44 pm
- Forum: LATEST NEWS
- Topic: Bill Wyman is fighting cancer
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4139
Re: Bill Wyman is fighting cancer
Its of slowest canceer releaese
- Tue Mar 08, 2016 2:16 pm
- Forum: LATEST NEWS
- Topic: Discuss The Benefits Of Metal Detectorists
- Replies: 15
- Views: 16716
Discuss The Benefits Of Metal Detectorists
http://archmdmag.com/2016/03/08/discuss-the-benefits-of-metal-detectorists-to-the-archaeological-community-by-alison-smith-ba-hons/ Discuss The Benefits Of Metal Detectorists To The Archaeological Community. By Alison Smith BA (Hons) Introduction. This essay will discuss the benefits of metal Detect...
- Mon Mar 07, 2016 10:17 pm
- Forum: LATEST NEWS
- Topic: Rare Saxon coin comes home to Wiltshire
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3781
Rare Saxon coin comes home to Wiltshire
http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/news/headlines/14325672.Rare_Saxon_coin_comes_home_to_Wiltshire/ A RARE Saxon coin found in a field near Pewsey has just gone on show at Wiltshire Museum in Devizes after a public appeal raised the cash to buy it. The tiny gold coin which was bought for £18,000 at an...
- Wed Mar 02, 2016 10:17 am
- Forum: LATEST NEWS
- Topic: Paul Blinkhorn
- Replies: 18
- Views: 19332
Re: Paul Blinkhorn
Hospital stays and internet enabled phones are a God send. I'm sure he is getting better.
- Tue Mar 01, 2016 6:40 pm
- Forum: LATEST NEWS
- Topic: Detectorist finds Saxon Island
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9448
Re: Detectorist finds Saxon Island
Another article on the same story. https://www.theguardian.com/science/201 ... university
- Tue Mar 01, 2016 5:39 pm
- Forum: LATEST NEWS
- Topic: Detectorist finds Saxon Island
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9448
Detectorist finds Saxon Island
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/our-yorkshire/heritage/sheffield-experts-unearth-saxon-island-in-lincolnshire-field-1-7763410 The discovery was made after local metal detectorist Graham Vickers unearthed a silver stylus - an ornate writing tool dating from the eighth century, from a disturbed plough ...
- Sun Feb 28, 2016 9:05 pm
- Forum: LATEST NEWS
- Topic: Paul Blinkhorn
- Replies: 18
- Views: 19332
Paul Blinkhorn
Any who knows of Paul Blinkhorn, the medi pottery specialist and Pub Dig, and Time Team guy. He is seriously ill in hospital at the moment and has been for a week or two, He has been a FB friend of mine for a few year now and his other half has been updating us. I'm wishing him all the best.
- Fri Feb 26, 2016 10:15 am
- Forum: LATEST NEWS
- Topic: Mesolithic shaman's necklace
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4654
Mesolithic shaman's necklace
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art547754-star-carr-pendant-archaeology-shaman-mesolithic Carvings on a fragile necklace found near Scarborough are telling archaeologists about the first permanent settlers of Britain after the last Ice Age - and are about to go on displa...
- Mon Feb 22, 2016 8:49 pm
- Forum: LATEST NEWS
- Topic: Trevor Austin has past away.
- Replies: 25
- Views: 26719
Re: Trevor Austin has past away.
Shocked me as well Brian.