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Post by RickW on Aug 11, 2020 11:33:57 GMT -5
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Post by Marshall on Aug 11, 2020 11:52:32 GMT -5
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Post by Marty on Aug 11, 2020 12:22:56 GMT -5
He'll make a tidy sum from that find. Treasure Trove law in the UK is very fair. The find will be evaluated for worth and the money split between the land owner and the finder. This way there are no court battles as to who gets what. The find will be bought by a museum at the evaluated price.
One of my Bucket list items is metal detecting in the UK but that is a pipe dream now as I don't have the stamina to do that anymore.
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Post by drlj on Aug 11, 2020 16:51:51 GMT -5
They didn't show the sword. I lost a sword a while ago. it might be mine.  I had a sword when I was a kid. A real, actual sword. Somebody stole it. I always suspected the kid across the street because he was a thief. He stole anything not nailed down. Plus, he started walking around with a sword. |
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Post by Marty on Aug 11, 2020 21:00:20 GMT -5
I know of a American Detectorist that found 9 Bronze age ax heads on a detecting trip to the UK. They were buried rather deep but that much metal will trigger even a cheap detector.He paid about $2500 for the guided trip and came home about a $100,000 richer.
I have a buddy that books those guided trips from the US side. You are usually going to find something on that type of trip because the guys in the UK reserve known producing fields just for the "punters". But I'm sure they're not against doing a bit of "salting" with a few of their own Roman or Anglo-Saxon finds to make sure the customers get their monies worth. A bronze Denarius is of little value to them but finding a 1800 year old Roman coin is the dream of a Detectorist from the US, Hell I'd be happy too.
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Post by dradtke on Aug 11, 2020 21:07:15 GMT -5
The spoon you found in my yard didn't do it for you, huh?
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Post by Russell Letson on Aug 11, 2020 21:58:09 GMT -5
He saw you put it on his saucer.
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Post by Marty on Aug 12, 2020 10:34:27 GMT -5
The spoon you found in my yard didn't do it for you, huh? If it had been a Roman or Bronze Age spoon Yes! |
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Post by Marty on Aug 12, 2020 13:32:04 GMT -5
I know of a American Detectorist that found 9 Bronze age ax heads on a detecting trip to the UK. They were buried rather deep but that much metal will trigger even a cheap detector.He paid about $2500 for the guided trip and came home about a $100,000 richer. I have a buddy that books those guided trips from the US side. You are usually going to find something on that type of trip because the guys in the UK reserve known producing fields just for the "punters". But I'm sure they're not against doing a bit of "salting" with a few of their own Roman or Anglo-Saxon finds to make sure the customers get their monies worth. A bronze Denarius is of little value to them but finding a 1800 year old Roman coin is the dream of a Detectorist from the US, Hell I'd be happy too. BTW: Detectorists find Bronze Age ax heads fairly often in the UK but what makes this find different is the number of heads found together. Probably belonging to a peddler who hid the majority of his stock and only carried what he needed to wherever he was going. This also means there was a Bronze Age village nearby for him to go to and for some reason he never returned to get his stock. Now if there was a village there would also be a grave yard and maybe a shrine. This is the type of find archaeologists love because it tells them so much about what might be found nearby, if they look. But there is a type of Detectorist that does not play by the rules, the Night Hawkers. These guys hunt at night without permission on known sites and sell their finds on the black market to avoid Treasure Trove Laws. Thus stealing from the land owners and museums. |
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Post by RickW on Aug 12, 2020 19:45:41 GMT -5
I was just thinking I’d have to do the posh sort of detecting, you know? Someone to carry the beer, shovel and camp stool, so that when I found something, they’d set up the stool, open my beer, and then dig it up while I watch. All that digging seems terribly tiresome.  |
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Post by TKennedy on Aug 12, 2020 21:12:49 GMT -5
It's interesting that most of the stuff folks find are things men used to use to kill each other. That would probably include the clay pots and cookware women like Sir Robin's wife used to bash them over the head when they were less than chivalrous.
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Post by Marty on Aug 12, 2020 22:30:55 GMT -5
We call it the Bronze Age but much of the artifacts from the period are copper, tin and lead. Combined they make bronze but that takes work and only used for the most important items. The Detectorist will find every day items made from these simple metals. Brooches that everyone wore to hold clothing together made from copper or tin, spindle whorls of lead, favored for its weight, they could not make yarn without without them. In fact lead was probably the most common metal used for everyday items that did not need strength even in the Roman period. Detectorists find lots of lead, so much so that if you collect it you can make "a few bob" on it.
Gold and silver are the metals that are hard to find but the Bronze Age Celts did use them, and the Romans. Coins of high value and the brooches and jewelry of the rich. But being valuable these items where usually kept safe by both owner and servant as something lost could mean punishment. But never the less they have been found. There is a field in SW UK that has so far produced over 900 bronze, silver and gold coins and brooches. The people working the property go to great lengths to keep the location secret and guard it at night so the Night Hawkers can't get in. It's been over five years and they are still getting finds there.
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Post by Marty on Aug 13, 2020 10:15:46 GMT -5
I was just thinking I’d have to do the posh sort of detecting, you know? Someone to carry the beer, shovel and camp stool, so that when I found something, they’d set up the stool, open my beer, and then dig it up while I watch. All that digging seems terribly tiresome. Swinging the detector over miles of plowed field is quite a bit of work in itself. Modern machines are much lighter than battery heavy older models and a few like the XP-Deus weight almost nothing. But you still have to walk the rough plowed field and that is hard work. |
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Post by Marty on Aug 13, 2020 10:40:28 GMT -5
Odd thing a Amateur detectorist is usually not a amateur but a guy that detects quite often. What is a professional Detectorist? That would infer that he does it for a living and the only guys I know of that detect for a living are the ones that detect for archaeological sites and they are fairly restricted in what they can do. Usually covering the waste piles from a dig to see if anything was missed. If it's a hoard site, meaning they expect a lot of finds, they might be allowed in the trench to locate metal objects but they can't dig them, just mark the place.
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Post by Marty on Aug 13, 2020 11:54:12 GMT -5
Another BTW:
Famous people that love to metal detect.
Garth Brooks
Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones
Hank Williams Jr.
Toby Jones, British actor
Mekenzie Crook, British actor in Pirate's of the Caribbean, the ugly little guy with the glass eye. Also writer and Director of the TV series The Detectorists.
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Post by John B on Aug 13, 2020 19:24:32 GMT -5
Mackenzie Crook was also Dwight on the original British series "The Office".
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