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Metal Detectoring

eziofan said:
I run a local archaeology group and spent yesterday sorting through 3 years of finds from a dig on the site of a medieval bishops palace selecting objects to display at our imminent open day. Amazing the fun you can have wading through 600 years of assorted detritus!
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Assorted detritus is exactly the kind of thing I want for Xmas. I don't want to steal the thunder from your Open Day but could you give a hint of the sort of items that will be on display ?
 
Bad Bungle said:
Assorted detritus is exactly the kind of thing I want for Xmas. I don't want to steal the thunder from your Open Day but could you give a hint of the sort of items that will be on display ?
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A lot of medieval pottery, including a fairly rare glazed ceramic roof finial, medieval bricks and stonework (including a possible Norman piece of stonework from an earlier building). Medieval glass (including some glass slag), lead same from the windows. We also have a copious amount of clay pipe, but this will all be from post occupation levels as the palace was derelict from c1600. Coins were scarce but we have a roman coin found in the topsoil and a 1694 William and Mary penny. Neither of which relate to the occupation of the building!
 
Guess the Gifte Shoppe and reliquary would have been pilfered after the palace became derelict.
 
Fabulous medieval wedding ring found by detectorist

Thought to date from 1388.

Found by David Board in Thorncombe, Dorset, the item is expected to fetch between £30,000 and £40,000 ($35,500 and $47,300) when it goes on auction later this month.

During an interview with CNN, he said: "There will probably never be another one like it. Back then, each ring was individual and unique, not mass produced like today. It's stunning.”
The ring is in "almost perfect condition," Nigel Mills, a consultant in coins and antiquities at Noonans, said in the release. The jewelery has a golden hoop of two entwined bands to symbolize marital union and an inverted diamond set into it.

Inside the band is a medieval French inscription that reads, "Ieo vos tien foi tenes le moy," translating as, "I hold your faith, hold mine," according to the auction house.

Due to the location of the find and the quality of the ring, Noonans' experts surmised that it's the wedding ring of Joan Brook, given to her by her husband, Thomas Brook.

Their marriage in 1388 brought great wealth to the Brook family, the release said, as Joan was the widow of Robert Cheddar, a wealthy cloth merchant and twice mayor of Bristol -- a city in western England.

It was at a time when medieval notions of chivalry and courtly love were at their zenith, concepts which the ring reflects, Noonans said.

Now known as The Lady Brook Medieval diamond ring, the item will be auctioned on November 29.
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I found what looked like a sweet wrapper & picked it up - now I'll make £40k selling it at auction

A METAL detectorist who mistook a medieval diamond ring for a sweet wrapper is set to sell it for £40,000.

David Board was walking back to his car after a fruitless day of searching in a muddy field when he got a signal on his device.

The 69-year-old thought he might get £20 for it, but, after cleaning it at a friend's farmhouse near Thorncombe, Dorset, he clocked it might be worth a bit more.

It was handed in to the Local Finds Officer which informed him that it dated back to the 14th century.

The writing on the inside of the gold band was translated to reveal it was a wedding ring given by Sir Thomas Brook to his wife Lady Joan Brook.

The ring, which is made up of two entwined bands, bears an inscription in Medieval French.

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It says "ieo vos tien foi tenes le moy" which translates to "as I hold your faith, hold mine".

Auctioneers describe the band as being in "very fine condition" and weighing about 3g (0.1oz).

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/20534502/metal-detectorist-auction-ring/

maximus otter
 
Max once again provides an invaluable contribution in posting the identical story to the one immediately above. Good work.
 
Two men found guilty of stealing a £3m Viking hoard have been ordered to pay more than £600,000 each or spend five more years in jail.

Instead of fame, kudos and much reward for declaring a Viking hoard of coins and jewelry they found in a field in Herefordshire, two detectorists twats tried to hide it and have just had time added to their jail sentences.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-64056018
 
Floyd1 said:
It was, but considering the absolute drivel that made up 99% of Christmas tv, it's a bit like saying ''who did you prefer sleeping with, Swifty or Trev''?
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Swifty said:
I love stuff like this although metal detecting is only a small part of this World War 2 bunker excavation ..

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"Greetings fellow Bleepers - how the DEVIL are you !"
Of the 20 or so metal detecting Youtube channels I subscribe to, Kris from Addictedtobleeps (ATB) is in the top two. His circumstances have changed since Battlefield Recovery videos and he reviews more than digs these days but still Top Man.
 
A rare find indeed.

A Victorian silver coin uncovered by a detectorist turned out to be something of "a rarity" when the eagle-eyed finder spotted a spelling error on it.

The sixpence, dated 1878 and found in a Cambridgeshire field, bore the word "Dritanniar" instead of "Britanniar".The erroneous "D" would have been an "embarrassment" for the engraver who stamped the coins, experts said. The batch was sent to Cyprus and apparently returned later to be melted down, but some of the coins survived.

David Stuckey found the Victorian sixpence earlier this month and posted photographs of it on his Facebook page.
"It turns out the Victorian silver sixpence... is an extremely rare one," he said.

It came to the attention of numismatist and coin dealer Martin Platt, from Truro, Cornwall, who knew of the history of the coins from a book called A New History of the Royal Mint - a 1992 work collated by specialist Christopher Challis.

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IMAGE SOURCE, DAVID STUCKEY Image caption, Most of the coins are thought to have been melted down

The coins, minted in 1878, were sent to Cyprus to settle arrears in salaries left behind by the departing Ottomans and to pay Indian troops who had been transferred from Africa to serve in Cyprus during the early stages of administration, Mr Platt said.

Britain had occupied Cyprus in 1878, although it remained nominally under Ottoman sovereignty. The island was annexed by Britain in 1914, after more than 300 years of Ottoman rule.

In the book, Challis wrote: "The discovery caused embarrassment and complaint, and blame fell on the resident engraver Thomas Minton, who had conveniently died before the error came to light." ...

Nigel Mills, a consultant in coins and antiquities at specialist auction house Noonans, in London, said: "The Dritanniar sixpence of 1878 is a well-known rarity which were shipped to Cyprus."

Shown photographs of Mr Stuckey's coin, he said: "In this condition, it is worth around £150. If it was mint state it would be worth thousands of pounds." ...

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-64186767
 
ramonmercado said:
Shown photographs of Mr Stuckey's coin, he said: "In this condition, it is worth around £150. If it was mint state it would be worth thousands of pounds." ...

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-64186767
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The 'romance' for me as a detectorist is in a limited-batch silver coin being sent to Cyprus and later returned for melting down, but ends up under a field in Cambs for best part of a 100 years until recovered. Coin collectors on the otherhand are notoriously unsentimental about buried coins subjected to ploughing, fertilisers and sheep urine - they prefer specimens to be untouched, uncirculated and kept in a drawer or display cabinet throughout its 'history'.
 
I have a Dig this Sunday at Launton near Bicester (Oxon) with a chance to find some of the Launton meteorite. No thank you, I dig enough hot rock, don't need chondrite - but was intrigued enough to investigate: 15th Feb 1830: triple-boom fireball landed in a Launton garden causing the occupier/observer to instinctively duck his head. A 1.06 Kg lump was dug up about a foot down and pinched by the London Natural History Museum who recently lent it to Tate Britain (Oxford not having its own museums apparently).
Just think: a slightly bigger lump landing slightly more north-east and Bicester Village may have gone the way of the Dinosaurs.

https://astronomy.activeboard.com/t47829190/launton-meteorite/
 
Metal detectoring has always been of interest to me but having no permissions i have never really bothered in pursuing it. Now a buddy at work has piqued my interest, and he has recommended a Garret 400i as a good detector for me ( it’s what he uses).
I have been told there should be no problems using a detector on any of the several woodlands we shoot, and I’m trying to get access to my great nephew’s farmland and woodlands.
You never know, I might unearth the Iceni hoard.
 
Best of luck tempest hope you get some brilliant finds.
I’ve got a garret and there not a bad bit of kit to start on
 
Who me said:
Best of luck tempest hope you get some brilliant finds.
I’ve got a garret and there not a bad bit of kit to start on
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The kids are looking at chipping in and getting it for my birthday in March, by which time I should have permissions for some land access.
 
Who me said:
Best of luck tempest hope you get some brilliant finds.
I’ve got a garret and there not a bad bit of kit to start on
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I said I wanted something mid-level, I didn’t want an entry level that would need updating quite quickly, but neither do I hanker for something with go faster stripes. Just something I can stick with for a few years.
 
Tempest63 said:
I have been told there should be no problems using a detector on any of the several woodlands we shoot, and I’m trying to get access to my great nephew’s farmland and woodlands.
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Remember all those cartridge cases you and your shoot ejected but didn’t retrieve over the years? Welcome home, boys!

:hahazebs:

maximus otter
 
very true max it might drive you mad tempest but good practice cos you will learn to recognise the tone it makes.
Or get bungle to sweep it for you first
 
maximus otter said:
Remember all those cartridge cases you and your shoot ejected but didn’t retrieve over the years? Welcome home, boys!

:hahazebs:

maximus otter
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I don't think you can't beat about the bush on that little detail! Although - it might be worth while detecting them and digging them up in large numbers, as there's where there's mud there's brass!
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