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Detectorists strike gold 20 after years

Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2017 10:44 am

by PhilD

Detectorists strike gold 20 years after leaving field empty-handed.............

https://www.theguardian.com/science/201 ... hire-field

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017 ... iscovered/

Re: Detectorists strike gold 20 after years

Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2017 12:03 pm

by dig-it-pete

WOW - Dreams are made of this Phil - thanks for posting

Re: Detectorists strike gold 20 after years

Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2017 12:09 pm

by PhilD

Cheers Pete, a really significant find of a lifetime

Re: Detectorists strike gold 20 after years

Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2017 6:05 pm

by kev woodward

Well they can't call this one the Staffordshire Hoard now can they?

What a find though, they must of been stunned finding those

Re: Detectorists strike gold 20 after years

Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2017 6:48 pm

by popsandme

love the quote by the coroner........."even as scrap this is worth a few bob!"

Re: Detectorists strike gold 20 after years

Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2017 8:02 pm

by zoomorphic

beautiful!!!nice to see the Celtic design work

Re: Detectorists strike gold 20 after years

Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2017 11:25 pm

by lee greagsbey

Absolutely wonderful....

Re: Detectorists strike gold 20 after years

Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2017 7:35 am

by dig-it-pete

The story even made it onto the main BBC news last night, with the two chaps talking about their find - great stuff

Re: Detectorists strike gold 20 after years

Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2017 11:51 am

by PhilD

The PAS report it a find of National Importance;

https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts ... /id/820219

https://finds.org.uk/news/guardian

Re: Detectorists strike gold 20 after years

Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2017 10:13 pm

by lee greagsbey

Thanks for PAS link Phil....

Re: Detectorists strike gold 20 after years

Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2017 10:20 pm

by PhilD

Cheers Lee