#The Detectorists

[averixus]

apparently no-one on tumblr is giffing detectorists so i have no choice but to step up

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[105nt]

We binged The Detectorists. Ah, ❤️ ... just the right amount of 💔, just the right amount of 🤣.

[haventacluewhatimdoing]

True love is when you watch a TV drama based on someone else's profession, and you let them point out all the ways it is inaccurate as you watch it

[sixbucks]

I found The Detectorists special on Netflix this morning! I didn���t know when we’d get it in America. I’ve felt buoyed all day!

Reblog and share at least one thing that brightened your day today, large or small 💙

[biglisbonnews]

Found again: BBC's The Detectorists The BBC series The Detectorists has released a special single episode/movie in December 2022, now streaming on Acorn.  Mackenzie Crook (Pirates of the Caribbean) and Toby Jones (The Hunger Games) return as a pair of metal detecting chums as they search the British countryside for historic treasures. — Read the rest https://boingboing.net/2023/01/16/found-again-bbcs-the-detectorists.html

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Detectorist Unearths Bronze Age Hoard After Getting Lost on Treasure Hunt

John Belgrove, 60, uncovered rare sword, axe head and bangle in Dorset after becoming separated from group

An amateur detectorist has described how he unearthed a bronze age hoard, including a rare sword, after getting lost during a treasure hunters’ rally.

John Belgrove, 60, became separated from the main group of detectorists and headed to higher ground to try to spot them when he made what he has called the find of a lifetime.

His device activated as he walked along and when he dug down he uncovered a rapier sword dating back to the middle bronze age.

The 61cm (2ft) rapier had been deliberately broken into three pieces and placed in the ground.

Unusually, the hilt, though cast in bronze, was shaped to mimic a wooden handle. Only two similar rapiers have been found in Britain before and they were incomplete.

As well as the rapier, a palstave axe head and a decorative arm bangle were found, presumably buried as an offering.

Dorset Museum and Art Gallery raised £17,000 to buy the objects, with the proceeds shared between Belgrave and the landowner.

Belgrove, a retired pensions consultant from Purley, Surrey, made his find in the village of Stalbridge, near Sherborne, Dorset, in 2020.

He paid £20 to go on the rally on private farmland but became separated from the group.

Belgrove said: “There was a group of between 40-50 detectorists there and they had searched the land before but they were excited because some new land had been opened up for the rally.

“I tagged along and didn’t know anyone there. Somehow I got left behind and lost and so I walked to high ground in a field and that is when I got a strong signal for this find of a lifetime.

“It was clear there was metal there but I thought it would just be an old can or something. I dug about eight inches down and found an odd-shaped object that was caked in clay.

“I didn’t know what it was at the time but it turned out to be a solid hilt of a sword, an exceptional item.”

He then found the two broken sections of the blade along with the axe head and the bangle.

Belgrove said: “I knew when I saw the axe head that it was a bronze age hoard. My head was in a spin. The blade of the sword was still sharp. The view of the British Museum is that it was deliberately broken and deposited in the ground as part of a ritual burial and offering.”

Elizabeth Selby, director of collections at Dorset Museum, said: “This hoard is incredibly special. The rapier sword is really unusual because of the cast bronze handle. The bracelet decoration was quite unusual as well.

“There aren’t really any comparable objects like the rapier, so to be able to acquire these items is really important for us.

“Finds like this tell us about how people were travelling, meeting and exchanging ideas with others on the continent in the centuries before the Roman invasion.

“There was a farming community there and these people generated enough wealth to be able to barter for or exchange objects that others had made.”

By Steven Morris.

[jane-not-rizzoli]

10 years of wet cat allegations

[100wrecks]

just started watching Detectorists (a wonderful tv show!!)

[greenskyotter]

Will you search through the loamy earth for me? Climb through the briar and bramble, I'll be your treasure.

[sirgawin]

I felt the touch of the kings And the breath of the wind I knew the call of all the songbirds They sang all the wrong words I'm waiting for you I'm waiting for you

Johnny Flynn // Detectorists

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Hi everyone I am still looking for British people over the age of 18 to take part in an interview on the Difference between British and American comedy shows for my Dissertation. If anybody British could take part that would be great, thank you

[colleybri]

Detectorists is beautiful in every sense. A gentle character-driven comedy-drama about two middle aged friends with a hobby. It’s leisurely, completely uncynical and often genuinely moving. Toby Jones and Mackenzie Crook are both wonderful. The series also makes creative use of folk music. Watching an episode is like taking a warm bath: it’s cosy and relaxing. And the English countryside has never looked more beautiful.

I love this clip – The haunting music is Magpie by The Unthanks.

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[everyonesonthespectrum]

Today’s Autistic character of the day is:

Andy Stone from Detectorists

[harveybwabbit92]

[R/n and Zoffy are on Earth camping when she sees something coming in distance.]

R/n, to Zoffy: Hey watch your back!

[Zoffy looks up from the fire and watches as a trampoline rolls passed them.]

Zoffy: What was that?

R/n: a trampoline.

Zoffy: huh...

[they hear a car and see a jeep come down the road with Seven inside.]

Seven: Have you two seen a Trampoline?

R/n: Went that way [Points where they last saw it.]

Seven: .... Were there any kids in it?

[Zoffy and R/n share a look.]

R/n: I don’t think so?

Seven: Right.

Zoffy: Isn’t that good news?

Seven, sighs: Potentially. 

[He drives off  without another word leaving Zoffy and R/n wondering what the hell just happened??]