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Bronze Age hoard from Berwick

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A metal-detecting novice who unearthed an "extremely important" hoard of Bronze Age artefacts has said his discovery was due to "sheer luck".

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He may as well give up now as it'll be Georgian pennies from now on! :lol:

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it said the the daily mail today that the finder will not get a reward!. anyone know why?

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bertmarshall wrote:it said the the daily mail today that the finder will not get a reward!. anyone know why?
Perhaps he didn't have permission. :)
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bertmarshall wrote:it said the the daily mail today that the finder will not get a reward!. anyone know why?
I think that must have been a misprint, or just the reporter not knowing what they were on about ? He did have permission, according to the article anyway.
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james1969 wrote:He may as well give up now as it'll be Georgian pennies from now on! :lol:
:shock: and the rest :lol: :lol: :lol:

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It didn't say he wouldn't get a reward it said under British law no reward was payable - That's good news when non detectorists read that. They can't say we're only in it for the money
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bertmarshall wrote:it said the the daily mail today that the finder will not get a reward!. anyone know why?
He might have dug the hoard up him self and not got our friends to dig it up for him, if you find a bronze age hoard you have to inform the archaeologists and let them dig it out of its context or you could lose the finders reward or some of the value of the finders reward.

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As far as I know the Daily Mail got it totally wrong which shows you should never believe everything you read in the paper.

I was FLO for the North East at the time and dealt with the Treasure Case. The finder did dig up the hoard before letting me know, which wasn't ideal, but it was getting dark and he was very worried that someone had spotted him detecting and it would all be gone by the morning if he didn't remove the objects.

The next day I went out to meet him, he showed me all the finds and we went back to the site and picked up lots of pottery from the area where the hoard was found. The objects then all went of to the BM for analysis as usual.

There were some interesting results from the analyses. The cores of the gold lock rings were made from beeswax, there were several new types of axe amongst the assemblage and a piece of wood found in one of them carbon dated the material too!

I left the North East before the case went to inquest but I can see no reason why the finder won't get his reward in the normal way. I know that the landowner refused his portion of the reward so that the museum could afford to buy the objects which was nice of him!

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i see he rechecked the hole afder finding a foil lid, the same thing happened with the newark torc but he dug a coke can

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Post by Deetektor »

Thanks for putting the story right Philippa, it's a shame that reporters always seem to get these stories wrong.

It's a pity we didn't get to chat at the BM last week, perhaps next year. :wink:
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Yes indeed..sorry to have missed you too. Hope you enjoyed the conference though. It was all good stuff..

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Forget about the media getting the story wrong, in some cases.
Well done the finder, novice or not. At least he was honest enough to say it was down to luck.

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