By popular demand I have added lists of metal detecting clubs in the US and Canada:
Metal Detecting Clubs in the US
Metal Detecting Clubs in Canada
If you want your metal detecting club to be added to one of the above lists drop me and email at the usual address, or leave a comment here or on the forum and I’ll get in touch.
My next task is to compile lists of gold prospecting clubs, if you know of any or would like your club on the list, let me know!
There was a very interesting TV show on last night called ‘Treasures Of The Anglo-Saxons’. At last digital TV has a show that is actually worth repeating 50 million times. If you missed it don’t worry, it will probably be on at least a dozen more times this week.
A goth historian visits the greatest Anglo-Saxon treasures including the Staffordshire Hoard and the Sutton Hoo treasure and talks to various experts on the art and craftsmanship of the Anglo-Saxons. Some incredible Anglo-Saxon belt buckles, brooches and strap ends are shown in glorious detail.
So keep an eye on BBC4 for the repeats!
A 75 ounce gold bar, salvaged from the wreck of the spanish galleon Santa Margarita by treasure hunter Mel Fisher, has been stolen from the Mel Fisher Maritime Museum in Key West, Florida. Police are searching for two suspects caught on the museum’s CCTV cameras.
A $10,000 reward is being offered for the safe return of the gold bar, estimated to be worth $550,000.
The Santa Margarita was wrecked in a storm off the Florida coast in 1622, along with her far more famous sister ship the Atocha.
Detecting.org.uk was hacked yesterday and I am totally gutted.
Now the process of rebuilding begins. It will take a while to get the forum back up and running as it was, but it will hopefully be usable again by this evening.
I have my suspicions about who was responsible, but unfortunately can’t prove it. If you can’t beat it, try to knock it I guess…