Time Team Strikes Gold

Post by **IronRon** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 1:07 pm

Shades of double standards here,
Thought they were onley interested in bits of old pottery.

I think helen will do the right thing,.Lets hope so.

Post by **JBM** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 1:34 pm

Pity he did not find 2 or more of them.

Jerry.

c scope skid · Post by **c scope skid** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 1:41 pm

Suprised the head line was,nt TT have stuck oil the way they hack at the ground with their J C Bs

Post by **marcsdigs** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 2:08 pm

Look out Saudis!

Post by **mark@3counties** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 2:19 pm

All those "Expert" Arkies on site telling us how old and who's hand made a certain type of pot and what it would have looked like back in it's day....they find a nice sized gold coin and they have to send it to a specialist???? strange.

m300572 · Post by **m300572** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 2:34 pm

And from the point of view of a 'proper' archaeologist its not the greatest thing they have ever found - its a gold coin, it tells us that someone with a fair bit of cash was there sometime after the date of the coin, it may tell us a bit about the status of the site but it doesn't actually add anything much more than a grotty bronze or tattered cut hammy would have done - Tony the Treasure Hunter! TR, you have just shot yourself in the foot with your effusive comments!!!

Linnet44 · Post by **Linnet44** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 3:02 pm

i'm afrad its true the sight of that yellow stuff does funny things to people
i've even had a millionaire drool at the sight of a gold coin freshly dug

Post by **Deetektor** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 4:57 pm

m300572 wrote:....... its a gold coin, it tells us that someone with a fair bit of cash was there sometime after the date of the coin.......

And really that's all it tells us, someone was there and dropped a coin.
Assuming it was an isolated find made in the topsoil.

Different though if it was found in a secure context, along with some datable pottery of other artefacts ?

Post by **allan ashford** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 8:27 am

I dont know if you carried on reading after the article to the comments folk had made- Interesting one from the man in Germany a similat outfit to TT had dug out tons of spoil and by chance a detectorist scanned it a few weeks late and apparantly discovered TWO gold coin hoards- makes you wonder if these people realise that JCB are perhaps not the best way to go about excavation- thats the trouble with rushing in three days - probably two days if you take in all the hot air and procrastinating on where to dig!

Fred · Post by **Fred** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 12:17 pm

mark@3counties wrote:All those "Expert" Arkies on site telling us how old and who's hand made a certain type of pot and what it would have looked like back in it's day....they find a nice sized gold coin and they have to send it to a specialist???? strange.

I can well understand that if they spend their entire working life looking at pottery sherds and mud the TT experts may not feel up to coin identification. We can (almost) all identify a Noble but exactly which ruler and which issue is a specialist task. Fortunately we have some damn good specialists on this forum. I just hope that it doesn't turn out to be a double leopard cos it will be our turn to have egg on our faces!

Post by **Big D** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 4:23 pm

I am the other detectorist that was on the dig and had to work another area

It was identified as a gold noble of Henry VI in EF and will post pics of the coin but I think it may be Henry V coin
All I could manage was a hammered of Alexander III, a Nuremburg Jetton, Musket Ball plus loads of lead

Post by **marcsdigs** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 4:29 pm

.fantastic finds big D, well done mate

Post by **hedgehunter** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 3:17 pm

Here ya go people, courtesy of Big D, piccies of the said Noble and very nice it is too

petem · Post by **petem** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 3:27 pm

Very nice, thanks for the pic

Post by **petethedig** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 3:35 pm

Wow cracking coin and well done for rescuing it!