Saxon relic worth up to £15,000

[History Hunter]

A rare Saxon artefact found by a metal detector enthusiast from South Yorkshire is expected to fetch up to £15,000 at auction. Click Here

[petethedig]

I remember a guy on here finding one more or less exactly the same as that a few years back, goes to show they're still some nice things to be discovered in the UK.

[GAZ-T]

I remember a guy on here finding one more or less exactly the same as that a few years back, goes to show they're still some nice things to be discovered in the UK.

This is the same one Pete, it's been on going for a couple of years now, it's been disclaimed by the museum apparently.
Tim, the finder is a friend of are's and a member of this site

[BobNob]

How would an item like this help monks read manuscripts????

[kev woodward]

There would have been a rod attached to the item and used to point at the words being read. They were used on pages that had the manuscript embellished with paintings which they did not wish to rub off with Friars Tucks fat greasy fingers Today we use the cheaper version of white cotten gloves

[markthemole]

another piece of british history to be bought by an overseas buyer only to be bought back by the british museum at an over inflated price

[petethedig]

Here's an aestle I found on the University dig (on the spoil heap) that is the poor man's page turner and pointer. This one is a nationally important find and due to make its way to the BM any time soon. It's so rare that there is no parallel anywhere yet found.
It's 8th Century Anglo Saxon so an earlier version of the gold one though this one did have a gilt cover and probably an ivory pointer. It was the one find you'd want to discover when looking for an Anglo Saxon monastic site which we are at Berkeley in South Gloucs. There was once a double minster there (two churches), one we believe was for some nuns, who in the end were disbanded due to having a local lord having his lordy way with them all!!!!

If you do see another one of these on your travels please do contact me, cheers

[Ghost]

if thats worth 15k, my silver trefoil was worth 50k.
should of kept it, but ye live and learn eh

[petethedig]

Go and knock a couple up Grah, your sure to have some gold kicking around somewhere

[Ghost]

lots of ratners stuff left pete if ye interested?
apart from one other piece, thats about it..

[petethedig]

[Donnydave]

That just looks like an old broken key, I must have weighed a dozen of those in for scrap

[petethedig]

Funny enough my first thought before the clump of dirt came off it when I found it on the spoil heap was that it was a key. The bottom section is conical and obviously empty. Like I said, nothing like it anywhere, and I have spent goodness knows how many hours looking

As far as I can see it is thus far a uniqute find, but it does have some very rich cousin's.......

1. The Alfred Jewel
2. The Minster Lovell Jewel
3. The Warminster jewel
4. The Yorkshire Aestle

[petethedig]

Mine is the Pound Stretcher version as per usual