Metal Detecting Finds
Incredible Treasures Found in US, France, and Denmark
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/tripideas/incredible-treasures-found-across-america/ss-BB1ejEeb?li=BBnbklE#image=1 https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/brittany-builders-discover-gold-coins-intl-scli/index.html https://www.euronews.com/2021/09/06/enormous-treasure-trove-of-sixth-century-gold-found-in-denmark
More Interesting Articles
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/08/ornate-silver-horde-discovered-in-forests-near-old-ryazan/139889 https://www.livescience.com/mysterious-sword-pyramid.html https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/08/archaeologists-discover-mercian-monastery-from-anglo-saxon-period/139938#aoh=16295198731128&csi=0&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.heritagedaily.com%2F2021%2F08%2Farchaeologists-discover-mercian-monastery-from-anglo-saxon-period%2F139938
Stunning treasures found by people using metal detectors
Many thanks to Gregg for the links: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/stunning-treasures-found-by-people-using-metal-detectors/ss-AAL4eVQ?li=BBnbklE&fullscreen=true#interstitial=1 https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/08/ancient-coin-mint-discovered-in-china-from-over-2500-years-ago/139852 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mysterious-mound-english-manor-reveal-medieval-castle-remains-180978390/
Repairing Coins and Artefacts
George handed me a 2 x 2 inch cardboard coin holder and, with tears in his eyes, said: “Can you mend this for me?” I looked, in horror, at what appeared to be the shattered remains of a coin as George explained that it was once an Iron Age silver unit that he had been […]
Pinpoint Probes
Garrett Pro-Pointer An extremely useful metal detecting accessory is an electronic pinpoint probe; a hand-held miniature metal detector, identifying all metal by audio and vibrating. This gadget helps identify the exact position of the find in and out of the ground so you can not only avoid damaging your find but speed up find extraction […]
Round Pounds
The new 12-sided £1 coin became legal tender on 28 March 2017. The round £1 coin lost its legal tender status at midnight on 15 October 2017. There are still 169 million out there, which have not been returned to the mint. I am sure we will be finding them with our metal detectors for […]
Treasure Hunting for Profit: With and Without a Metal Detector
BOOK DESCRIPTION If your dreams of finding treasure result in next to nothing, then this book is for you. David Villanueva draws on his 40 plus years experience to show you how and where to find, and profit from, many types of lost or hidden valuables in Britain, all year round. Treasure hunting is one […]
Airplane Hunting
Bristol Beaufighter firing rockets As Chairman of The Swale Search and Recovery (metal detecting) Club I was approached recently by an up-and-coming air museum to help look for wreckage of a WWII Bristol Beaufighter that had crashed on a local muddy foreshore during a training exercise. It was believed, or hoped, that there was a […]
HOW TO FIND BRITAIN’S BURIED TREASURE HOARDS
Every detectorist dreams of finding a hoard and this new book will increase your chances of doing so. The rich history of the British Isles has led to the burial of thousands of hoards for many different reasons – some as offerings, some as savings or in an emergency, intended to be recovered later. Although […]
NEW BOOK – Tokens and Traders of Kent in the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
THE PROVINCIAL TOKEN-COINAGECoins traditionally contained the value of the metal they were made from, less a nominal amount for the monarch and mint master and could only be produced by Royal decree. By the sixteenth century the penny and its fractions had been reduced in size by inflation becoming inconveniently small to manufacture and use. […]
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