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A bronze age hoard from Devon

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I was lucky enough to see this hoard first hand at our club meeting and actually held those BA gold bracelets :g58: :shock:

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I am jealous :g40:

Simply beautiful :g38: :g38: :g38:
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kev woodward wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 3:43 pm I am jealous :g40:

Simply beautiful :g38: :g38: :g38:
The FLO reckoned it was part of a BA burial and they were grave goods! They did a survey and an archeological dig on the site but only found a stone age artefact! Nothing else was found, no burial or old bones. I reckon it was most probably a travelling founders hoard??
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dig-it-pete wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 2:51 pm I was lucky enough to see this hoard first hand at our club meeting and actually held those BA gold bracelets :g58: :shock:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-d ... f74cNXHf0E
You have a habit of ancient gold slipping through your fingers pete, this, gold pennies…..what next :kissblow: :hahaha:
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popsandme wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 5:21 pm
dig-it-pete wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 2:51 pm I was lucky enough to see this hoard first hand at our club meeting and actually held those BA gold bracelets :g58: :shock:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-d ... f74cNXHf0E
You have a habit of ancient gold slipping through your fingers pete, this, gold pennies…..what next :kissblow: :hahaha:
Yes mate......It's not funny :g40:
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Re: A bronze age hoard from Devon

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:g45:
dig-it-pete wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 5:22 pm
popsandme wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 5:21 pm
dig-it-pete wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 2:51 pm I was lucky enough to see this hoard first hand at our club meeting and actually held those BA gold bracelets :g58: :shock:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-d ... f74cNXHf0E
You have a habit of ancient gold slipping through your fingers pete, this, gold pennies…..what next :kissblow: :hahaha:
Yes mate......It's not funny :g40:
Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

Self recording on the PAS database..... Click Here
2022 Hammered = 5

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