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Metal detecting ‘helping to preserve Britain’s history’
A nice video about metal detecting from the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13637861 The Guardian’s coverage of the PAS annual report launch: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/may/25/metal-detector-ancient-england-maps This will be my last blog post for the foreseeable future.
Posted in Metal Detecting, Metal Detecting Finds, Metal Detectors, Portable Antiquities Scheme
Tagged Britains, helping, history, metal detecting, preserve
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Some Roman coins of the usurper Allectus
Flatbed scanning and image manipulation technology have come a long way since 1997 when I first made Coins of the Romans Relating to Britain By John Y. Akerman, 1836, available for free on the internet! (See some of my earlier … Continue reading
Posted in Identifying Metal Detecting Finds, Metal Detecting Finds, Roman Coins
Tagged Allectus, Carausius, Coins, detecting, detector, from, Frome Hoard, hoard, Identifying Metal Detecting Finds, metal, metal detecting, metal detecting find, metal detecting finds, metal detector, Roman, usurper
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Celtic gold coins found whilst volunteering for an archaeological unit
Celtic gold stater (right) and quarter stater (left) of Tasciovanus, king of the Catuvellauni tribe (from around 20BC until around 9AD) and father of Cunobelin, that I found whilst volunteering for an archaeological unit. Equipment used was a Compass Coin … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Celtic Coins, Metal Detecting Finds
Tagged archaeological, Celtic, Coins, detecting, detector, finds, gold, metal, metal detecting, metal detecting find, metal detector, quarter, stater, Tasciovanus, unit, volunteering
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The bad old days – finding hoards without a metal detector
This is how hoards were found in the bad old days, before metal detectors. Smashed to pieces by the plough! Illustration from the book Coins of the Romans Relating to Britain By John Y. Akerman, Published 1836 (the book is … Continue reading
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Tagged detecting, detector, finding, hoards, metal, metal detector
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The Thirteen Treasures of the Island of Britain
The list of the Thirteen Treasures of the Island of Britain – the original manuscripts, written in Welsh, date from the 15th and 16th centuries, but they almost certainly draw on paper sources and oral traditions that are far, far … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Famous Treasure Finds, Metal Detecting Finds, Metal Detecting Hoard Finds
Tagged Britain, detecting, detector, finds, greatest, hoards, Island, metal, Thirteen, Treasures
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Mystery metal detecting finds – Roman dodecahedron
Ever found one of these? Roman dodecahedra are believed to date from the second and third century AD, and range from 4 to 11cm in size. There are many theories about what they may have been used for, but I … Continue reading
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Tagged detecting, detector, dodecahedron, metal, metal detecting, metal detecting find, metal detector, mystery, Roman, Roman dodecahedron
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Dallinghoo/Wickham Market Hoard – metal detecting find fund-raising
Colchester and Ipswich Museum Service have apparently begun a fund raising effort to secure the Dallinghoo/Wickham Market Hoard of 840 Iron Age gold staters found by two metal detectorists in 2008. The Dallinghoo/Wickham Market Hoard is one of the largest … Continue reading
Posted in Metal Detecting Finds, Metal Detecting Hoard Finds, Treasure Act of 1996
Tagged Coins, Colchester and Ipswich Museum Service, Dallinghoo, detecting, detector, fund-raising, gold, hoard, Ipswich Museum, Iron Age, metal detecting, metal detecting find, metal detector, staters, Wickham Market
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‘Treasure house’ of the North Thames tribes discovered – largest find of Iron Age gold in UK history
Metal detectorists in Hertfordshire discover the ‘Treasure house’ of the North Thames tribes – the single largest find of Iron Age gold in history. Found just outside St. Albans, the hoard of 52,504 gold staters and over 200 neck torcs … Continue reading
New fake pound coin type? Coin forgery for fun and profit…
First post of 2011! Just when it seemed the Police had the pound coin forgers licked (or at least nicked) a possible new fake pound coin type has emerged, if not a new type it is certainly a new one … Continue reading
Posted in Coin Collecting, Fake Coins
Tagged coin, coin collecting, collecting, fake, forgery, new, pound, type, £1
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Roman Silver Leda mirror from the Boscoreale treasure
Another superb piece of roman silversmithing – the Leda and the Swan mirror from the Boscoreale treasure. This piece dates from the first century AD and was found in the remains of the Boscoreale Villa, a high status dwelling just … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Famous Treasure Finds
Tagged boscoreale, Boscoreale treasure, Leda, mirror, pompeii, Roman, silver, treasure
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An ancient Greek metal detecting find – revisited
I posted this picture a few days back, probably my favourite metal detecting find of all time, an ancient greek coin minted in Italy. I found this coin almost 20 years ago and didn’t notice until just now – there … Continue reading
Posted in Ancient Greek Coins, Metal Detecting, Metal Detecting Finds
Tagged ancient, ancient greek, coin, Coins, detecting, detector, find, finds, greek, metal
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Rare Carausius ‘Clasped Hands’ Denarius being offered by Dix, Noonan and Webb
Dix, Noonan and Webb are offering a very rare Carausius ‘Clasped Hands’ Denarius in their December 9th coin auction: Carausius, Argenteus, London, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, rev. clasped hands, 4.19g/6h (cf. RIC 549; cf. Shiel 14-20). Very fine … Continue reading
New London Coins Auction catalogue, auction 131 on 5th and 6th of December
The new London Coins Auction catalogue is out. The catalogue for the auction is up to London Coins Auction usual high standard (with loads of colour photographs), as are the the offerings within. The sale catalogue contains more than 2300 … Continue reading
Posted in Coin Auctions, Coin Collecting
Tagged catalogue, coin, coin collecting, Coins, collecting, London Coins Auction
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Ed Vaizey announces future funding of the Portable Antiquities Scheme
The 2008 Treasure Annual Report was apparently launched today at the British Museum by Ed Vaizey (Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries and member of Parliament for Wantage). Mr Vaizey announced that from April 2011, funding for the Portable … Continue reading
Silver cup with Athena seated from the Hildesheim Treasure
Probably the finest known example of the Roman silversmith’s art: Silver cup with Athena seated from the Hildesheim treasure, discovered on October 17, 1868 on Galgenberg Hill in Hildesheim, Germany. Dating from the first century AD, this cup may have … Continue reading
Cartwheel penny found with a metal detector for comparison
Thought this coin would make for an interesting comparison with the Cartwheel two pence coins I posted a few days ago. Above and below: A cartwheel one penny coin found with a metal detector. The pitting and corrosion on this … Continue reading
Posted in Identifying Metal Detecting Finds, Metal Detecting, Metal Detecting Finds
Tagged Cartwheel, comparison, detecting, detector, find, finds, found, metal, one, pence, penny, Soho mint, two
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An ancient Greek metal detecting find – coin from Thurium or Thurii
This one is still my favourite, and oldest, metal detecting find of all time. A coin minted in Thurium, a Greek city in modern day Italy, in the 4th century BC. The bull charging right is a recurring motif on … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient, bull, coin, Coins, detecting, detector, find, greek, metal, Thurii, Thurium
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Queen Victoria ‘To Hanover’ gaming tokens or jettons, 1837 to 1867
A Queen Victoria ‘To Hanover’ gaming token or jetton, dated 1867. Thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of these were minted between 1837 and 1867 (at least the most recent date I have seen on one of these tokens or … Continue reading
Posted in Coin Collecting, Identifying Metal Detecting Finds, Metal Detecting Finds
Tagged 1837, 1867, Duke of Cumberland, gaming, hanover, jettons, Queen, To Hanover, tokens, Victoria
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