Viking treasure found in Dumfries and Galloway
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Re: Viking treasure found in Dumfries and Galloway
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Re: Viking treasure found in Dumfries and Galloway
Exciting stuff!
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Re: Viking treasure found in Dumfries and Galloway
That's amazing. Well done to the detectorist for re-writing the history books for Scotland.
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Re: Viking treasure found in Dumfries and Galloway
That is an awesome find
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Re: Viking treasure found in Dumfries and Galloway
Wonderful stuff.
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Re: Viking treasure found in Dumfries and Galloway
me and sots used to detect a fair bit up there with a few locals when sots was a resident of that locale....we must have missed that one....DOH. love how the cloth is still attached to the pot
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Re: Viking treasure found in Dumfries and Galloway
This same guy found the largest hoard of Medieval coins ever found in Scotland too apparently! What a find!!! - I wonder if the pot will be restored?
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Re: Viking treasure found in Dumfries and Galloway
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Re: Viking treasure found in Dumfries and Galloway
I thought it was illegal or at least frowned on to detect graveyards
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Re: Viking treasure found in Dumfries and Galloway
Who said graveyard? Seems the Church in Scotland have a more welcoming approach than the C of E !!Donnydave wrote:I thought it was illegal or at least frowned on to detect graveyards
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Just my suspicious mind JC Church land andjcmaloney wrote:Who said graveyard? Seems the Church in Scotland have a more welcoming approach than the C of E !!Donnydave wrote:I thought it was illegal or at least frowned on to detect graveyards
When the discovery was made in early September, he was in the company of two ministers who are also detectorists; Rev Dr David Bartholomew, a Church of Scotland minister of a rural Galloway charge, and Mike Smith, the pastor of an Elim Pentecostal Church in Galloway.
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Re: Viking treasure found in Dumfries and Galloway
Now that is stunning.
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