Here comes a horde of reavers! Quick, let's bury everything of value in order to relate to the world around us!
In the area where Visser did her research, metals did not occur naturally and were very valuable. ‘They had to be imported from far away. These trade networks were important. People wanted to express that their communities belonged to intraregional networks. Depositions were a way for people to relate to the world around them and their place within it.’
Mysterious metal depositions were ‘the most ordinary thing in the world’ | December 6, 2021
Two of my favorite types of you tubes to watch are metal detecting in the UK and mud larking on the Thames.
Nice find!
That axe head in the middle looks perfect
It’s a trap. Soon as you upgrade to a bronze ax, a new model comes out.
That place used to be a pawn shop. Some dudes pawned their axes & never came back to claim them.
“metal detectorists”
Ist. Ist can create anything.
“Milly said if she was offered any money for her part of the find, it would be split equally with the landowner.”
Milly? Just one name?
Did she have an agreement with the landowner?
Seems to me it belongs to him 100%
Recompense for the landowner/tenant and discoverer(s) is the current market value as determined by the 'Treasure Valuation Committee' which will also determine share amounts to the various parties. If the 'treasure' does not interest any museum, it is returned to the interested parties for their own disposition.
FYI: For a discovery to be subject to the UK Treasure Act, one of the following must be true;
1) "All coins from the same find, if it consists of two or more coins, and as long as they are at least 300 years old when found. If they contain less than 10% gold or silver there must be at least 10 in the find for it to qualify."
2. "Two or more prehistoric base metal objects in association with one another"
3. "Any individual (non-coin) find that is at least 300 years old and contains at least 10% gold or silver."
4. "Associated finds: any object of any material found in the same place as (or which had previously been together with) another object which is deemed treasure."
5. "Objects substantially made from gold or silver but are less than 300 years old, that have been deliberately hidden with the intention of recovery and whose owners or heirs are unknown."
Royston is in Hertfordshire, due north of London and southeast of Cambridge.
Poor Milly...finding such an amazing treasure at age 13, probably never to be repeated again in her lifetime. She’s peaked already.
What a great father-daughter hobby and way to spend precious time together. She has the memory of a lifetime with that find with Dad.
This fine British drama excavates a whole lot of buried treasure with a distinguished cast in Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes, Lily James and Johnny Flynn. It's based on the true events around the 1939 excavation of Sutton Hoo, yielding a priceless trove of Anglo-Saxon artefacts hidden in a burial ship. Romantic, intellectual and moving, The Dig is a full sweep of elegance.
Sounds to me like there may have been a battle and weapons collected into piles afterwards. It is cool when this kind of stuff is found.