A hoard of GOLD coins more than 2,000 years old wa

[PhilD]

A hoard of GOLD coins more than 2,000 years old was found in Ightham.........

http://www.kentlive.news/a-hoard-of-gol ... story.html

[Euan]

[jcmaloney]

One day local journalists will be able to write a report properly!

[dig-it-pete]

One day local journalists will be able to write a report properly!

[Baldric]

Peter is a mate of mine, he kept this very quiet. Well done.

[Hawkstone]

One day local journalists will be able to write a report properly!

Do you really think so ?

[noble1]

The system stinks, I also know Peter and he would not have wanted this find broadcast on here. The coroners system leaves a lot to be desired and the press are not much better in their sensationalism

[popsandme]

The system stinks, I also know Peter and he would not have wanted this find broadcast on here. The coroners system leaves a lot to be desired and the press are not much better in their sensationalism

thats maybe so noble, however the fact remains that there is a freely available article that can be read be anyone so to suggest that the original poster should not have been so quick to post the link is a little contradictory. A few questions for you mate, is peter a member on here? did peter wish to remain anonymous when he declared his find? if he did choose to remain anonymous then why are you telling us his name?
all the best.

[noble1]

I am not disputing its a freely available article popsand me mate but how many UKDN members in the Norfolk or say the Scottish areas as examples would have bothered to trawl all the regional on line local news web sites to find this article if so then good for them but announcing it here it could be seen as a green light to those more unscrupulous within the hobby and who may know the area?
We are lucky as members as we can and do use pseudonyms and in a lot of cases we can either give a town we live in,a general area e.g North Yorkshire or no location information at all so if someone posted they had found a hoard of Iron Age coins no one would be any the wiser as to who they were, where they lived or detected, unfortunately Peter didn't have this choice.
Yes I believe Peter is a member but doesn't often use the website so hearing secondhand from a third party was very disappointing mostly by the coroner process and the article on KentLive but further compounded by being announced on this site. Did he get asked by the coroner whether he wanted to remain anonymous.. that I don't know, is this a statutory requirement for them to do so and if the press is present are they under any restrictions, seems not?
Finally my mentioning his name, if you look further up the thread Baldric mentions it also, .... how would he know, obviously only by going into the link so in mentioning his name its already in the article for everyone who opens it to see !!!!!

[noble1]

Sorry guys wasn't able to encapsulate all my thoughts, just to say I get excited as anyone when I read these articles and congratulate PhilD for putting the time and energy into researching these articles but being close to home I now realise there are deeper implications in publishing these articles to those who have made newsworthy finds

[popsandme]

noble with due respect, its is everyone's right to have their own say and opinion on the matter. i simply think that you have failed to grasped the situation.......

man finds hoard.
hoard gets declared.
hoard is part of coroners inquest.
press attends inquest.
press publish article.

......we as metal detectorists are instantly drawn to articles of such nature and from time to time members on here, especially members of the team, like to share news stories that other members might be interested in reading, thats what we as a forum like to do, we like to share interesting news, after all if it were not for stories like this what can we all dream about, phil shared a news story as its part of what he does as a very active and respected member of the team, we as admin see no wrong in what he did.

At the end of the day, have you fired off a bitterly worded letter to the Kentlive news website or for that matter the coroners office for having the audacity to let the press into a public inquiry where every citizen of the county of Kent could have attended, which incidentally would be in the region of 1.7 million+ people.

and yes i did notice that baldric had also mentioned peters name but unlike your initial comment he chose to keep his comment to a more congratulatory one.

Peter would have at some point been asked if he wished to remain anonymous and the press would have been bound by the courts ruling should he have chosen to do so, erg the press have only done their job and reported the facts that are available from the inquiry and that includes names.

[popsandme]

just to add i didnt read your final post before posting me above comment.

[meandmydreams]

Just a thought, but I have recorded a handful of treasure finds over the years and have agreed with the FLO to keep exact find spots from the public domain. This was relayed to the coroner to protect sensitive sites. The find needs to be accurately reported for the record, but Jo Public doesn't need to know which field a find comes from. A description like" Near Maidstone" rather than "Leeds Castle" would suffice. This won't help in this case, but may be useful for others avoid such a pitfall.