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Before this only eight gold pennies of Henry III were known.

The most shocking thing for me was the very dry state of the soil. No detectorist should ever dig into pasture as dry as it was during this programme.

An amazing find. Certainly the most important group ever of coins of Harold II and William I.

Ed Vaizey, who was very friendly towards metal detecting, has lost his job at the DCMS. Let's hope that his replacement is just as friendly to the hobby.

I've just heard that Jim Halliday has passed away. He was a real character and will be sadly missed by his family, friends and those in the detecting world.

I never met Dr Blackburn but through my lifelong interest in numismatics it was impossible not to know of him. He was a brilliant scholar, who gained a massive amount of respect through his work, and he will be greatly missed.

Yes, the price is far too high. However, if you order it through your local library them it will cost you nothing.

There is a review in the latest issue of The Searcher; other than that, this book seems to have been met with a deafening wall of silence.

Metal Detecting and Archaeology, edited by Suzie Thomas and Peter Stone. Amongst other things, this book explores the relationships between metal detecting and archaeology.

If you want to read about the discovery of the hoard in more detai, plus the coins and other items in the silver-gilt vessel, then get hold of the March, April, May and June issues of The Searcher. I saw the hoard within a few hours of its discovery and wrote it up for a number of articles in The Se...