#The Detectorists
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apparently no-one on tumblr is giffing detectorists so i have no choice but to step up
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We binged The Detectorists. Ah, ❤️ ... just the right amount of 💔, just the right amount of 🤣.
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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
#house md#merlin#the detectorists#sherlock#i've had things pointed out to me in all of these fandoms lol
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Detectorists 2022 Special
"Well no, the Holy Grail is the holy grail of treasure hunting." - Andy, Series 1 Episode 1.
#detectorists#detectorists spoilers#mackenzie crook#toby jones#rachael stirling#sophie thomspon#simon farnaby#the detectorists
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DETECTORISTS FEATURE LENGTH SPECIAL DEC 26 9PM
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Unearthing the Scattered Memories from Hwæt! zine
Illustrated by Bunty May Marshall
#folk horror#hwæt!#occult zines#horror zine#the detectorists#folklore#magpie#bunty may marshall#illustration#scattered lore
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If I could write, I would.
Oh hey, I’ve never written on this blog and it’s almost a decade old. 👋🏻
so it’s 1:45am and I can’t sleep because I’m thinking- you know what, a Sandman/Detectorists crossover fic would be amazing- cute and gentle. If you’ve not seen The Detectorists (Mackenzie Crook and Toby Jones show) off you go and treat yourself- it is all things good.
Anyway, so Hob’s got money stashed all over the place, probably in banks and offshore accounts, sure, but also PROBABLY he’s secreted caches in random places around the country. Got to be prepared for every eventuality after all. AND there’s hoards all over the place in the U.K., seemingly. We’re not talking on a par with the Staffordshire hoard or that one discovered in Norfolk last year, but it’s not a paltry sum that Hob’s got buried, and for some reason, he really needs it, or something from it, now.
So I figure this treasure is somewhere in the Danebury vicinity, except Hob doesn’t remember precisely *where*. It’s been a good few centuries: memories fade and landscapes change. So he joins the DMDC, because how else does one find buried treasure than by metal detecting?
as far as plot goes, that’s it (this is why I’m not a writer 😂). I just want to provide the opportunity for Hob to introduce himself and for Terry to say “Hob… Hob. An appropriately medieval moniker.” In a genially approving manner. And for Hob to go for pints at the Two Brewers with Lance and Andy. And for Dream to overhear Lance’s little speech to Andy re-what a Detectorist is: “See, archaeologists, they gather up the facts, piece the jigsaw together, work out how we lived and find the buildings we lived in, but what we do is... that's different. We unearth the scattered memories, mine for stories, fill in the personality. Detectorists. We're time travellers.” And to raise an eyebrow in mild approval. I don’t know why Dream’s there, that’s for someone else to figure out.
And that magpie that goes around stealing the treasure? That’s 100% Matthew’s role in all this.
I would call it something from the lyrics of Johnny Flynn’s theme song, and pepper it with expansive descriptions of the bucolic beauty of Essex in the late summer.
since I’ve gotten that off my chest, maybe I can sleep now?
#the sandman#hob gadling#dream of the endless#the sandman fanfic#the detectorists#matthew the raven#late night musings#i don’t know how to tag#I just think this would be cute right#first post on tumblr#hello tumblr
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The Unthanks' arrangement of The Magpie by Davey Dodds is beautiful and eerie. There's a story that Davey Dodds got the idea for the song when he gave a lift to an old woman as he drove through a wild, rural bit of Cornwall and she spat in his car every time she saw a magpie. Whether that's true or not, this simple arrangement with the three women of the band singing in harmony, and Adrian McNally using the drone of an Indian harmonium to accompany them, conjures up a sense of old beliefs and rituals, and is utterly spine-tingling.
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For a lot of people who know about the Unthanks, this is the song that first introduced them to the band because it was used in an episode of the BBC show The Detectorists. Here's a video giving you an idea of how great the show is and how well the Unthanks' music fits in - with a warning for spoilers and a suggestion that if you haven't yet watched The Detectorists you're going to want to get on that because it's wonderful.
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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.
#Detectorist Unearths Bronze Age Hoard After Getting Lost on Treasure Hunt#bronze age hoard#Dorset England#ancient artifacts#archeology#archeolgst#history#history news#ancient history#ancient culture#ancient civilizations#middle ages#ancient art#long post#long reads
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10 years of wet cat allegations
#representation matters#loser girl#love you Sophie love you Shirley#detectorists#slow horses#shirley dander#mick herron#aimee ffion edwards#lesbian culture
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Will you search through the loamy earth for me? Climb through the briar and bramble, I'll be your treasure.
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just started watching Detectorists (a wonderful tv show!!)
#andy stone#detectorists#bbc detectorists#mackenzie crook#myart#lance is my fav but i cant capture his likeness properly#this doodle was colored by my amazing little sister!!!!
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That episode of the Detectorists special was perfect. Every scene was brilliant but the one with Becky talking about her mum was especially heartbreaking. It felt very real, and I guess it must have felt that way when filming it.
I hope it's not the end, but at the same time I wouldn't be mad if it was as I think it would be very hard to top that ending.
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