Posted on 12/12/2021 12:09:38 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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.
Sutton Hoo? Heh... thanks, but I don’t have Netflix, or any interest in getting it. The real story of Sutton Hoo is better than anything a fiction writer could dream up.
Just so amazing. Finding coins dating from the Tutors lying right in the mud. Love to have one of those clay pipes from the 1600’s.
Made me think of the time I was a little kid and my father was helping me dig a hole at the beach. Another kid asked him what he was digging for and my father replied, “I’m going to bury my wife”. A few minutes later the kid returned with his father who said, “I want to meet the man who is burying his wife”.
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.
Better that than finding Bronze Age Hordes.
Those could be a bit problematic.
Landowners usually give permission to detect. Likly a verbal agreement she is sticking too.
Great find. I hope she finds more great finds but this she might have found the best she can find. It’s a once in a lifetime experience. If you are lucky enough.
As a long time metal dectorist I still get excited finding a quarter from the 50’s.
Big fan of nicola white mudlark.
Yeah. It seems very exciting, more so for such a youngster.
When I was a child and my father used to collect quarters, nickles and dimes monthky for insurance policies in the late 1940’s he would trade out the old coins like, V nickles, liberty quarters, and Indian head pennies and give them to me. Eventually he also gave me old coins he had found as a young man trapping and camping in Arizona. The oldest is a large penny from 1822. Now I have to decide which of my children or grandchildren I will give them to.
I could Freepmail you my PO Box and you could send my treasures and I could add them to my hoard if it would help you sleep better at night.
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