That point has already been raised by a number of grinning faces. I’m hoping the particular model of detector I’m looking at can discriminate between the cartridges and Boudica’s hoard.Remember all those cartridge cases you and your shoot ejected but didn’t retrieve over the years? Welcome home, boys!
maximus otter
Most self respecting shotgun users on our plot retrieve their cartridges and place them in the purpose built bin on the gun bus; most but not all. The shoot in its current form has been in operation for over 25 years, no doubt shooting took place on the land before our organised shoot was in place.
Think I my 'dig-out' my old metal detector, haven't looked at it for more than thirty years. It was did a great job back then and I was always careful to replace soil etc after finding stuff. Difficult bit is getting somewhere to detect but certainly it's worth a thought seeing as I now have the time to go detecting.
Okay, I know it is nearly 700 years later but I still hope they washed their hands afterwards!
Okay, I know it is nearly 700 years later but I still hope they washed their hands afterwards!
So come on- surely everyone has seen it by now.
"Well" (to coin a phrase), it seems like a programme, and a subject that could be delved into and easily expanded upon in many different ways. Though I think they could drop the 'silly hobby' tag that seems in part, to be portrayed within the series, as detecting can be a very serious business. . . 'Oak Island,' a case in point. The connections between Detectorist's; Museum's, Archaeologist's and their research findings and dig's all play there own important part with todays metal detectorist's - even when, for some, it becomes a fascinating pastime.
I don't think they will as it is hard to know where they could go after that. I heard an interview with Toby Jones where he said the same thing.
Maybe it will re-emerge at some time in the future?
I'm thinking back now to when I used to go detecting as a young man, and got my first fascination with the hobby. After some time trying various places I found that I seemed to get a sense that there was something in a certain area I was covering that told me there was something there to be found, and I usually did . . . pull rings; scrap bits of iron, big old curtain rings, an old dinky type car without wheels and on one occasion dug up an old hand scythe.
Looking back, I wish I'd had today's knowledge then as I used to occasionally go and pay a visit around those areas coming across various bit's and pieces of 'stuff,' but it was quite a sticky kind of environment to lurk in back then, as the oil and tar used to collect on the banks in some/most areas along the Thames at that time from all the barges and various vessels that used the Thames like a dumping ground - and in fact, probably over many centuries.
I'm going to predict that fewer finds will be openly declared and there will be a quiet trade of goods for cash under the table.
The word “exceptional” is conveniently vague.
l sense the authorities’ hands creeping into detectorists’ pockets.
maximus otter
That’s a nice find. What d’you reckon it’s made of?
