#detectorist

[ancientstuff]

Oooo, a mystery!

[mdzsao3]

i care about jiang cheng an abnormal amount

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[iesorno]

Not my strongest drawing today, I couldn’t quite decide on the shape of the head.

I went with a Detectorists option, Mackenzie Crook, after I saw a snippet from an interview where he said that he decided to buy a piece of woodland to protect it rather than a fancy car

That’s a celebrity!

[mtmcguire]

I bore you about the aurora borealis and also bang on about other things …

Woah there, another massively busy week. We hit the ground running (from both ends) with a lovely bout of the Noro on Sunday night. I was fine by the end of Monday but it was still a right pain in the jacksy. Tuesday I kept things very low key because I was still feeling a bit delicate so I did a bit of admin though in that I wrote three reviews, which I’ve been meaning to write for ages. There…

[treasurevalleymdc]

July Speakers Table - James Opfars

[yamahamusicians]

Largest gold nugget ever found in England discovered in Shropshire with faulty metal detector

A metal detectorist in Shropshire has unearthed England’s largest-ever gold nugget worth an estimated £30,000 – despite turning up an hour late for the dig with a faulty metal detector. Richard Brock, 67, travelled three and a half hours from his home in Somerset to join an organized expedition on farmland in the Shropshire Hills last May but arrived late. He also had a problem with his metal…

[norfolkbuttonboy]

ROMAN BROOCH RECOVERED 😮 Metal Detecting In The Uk 🇬🇧 Using XP Deus 1 💥 #roman #history #detecting #metaldetecting #relic #relichunting #outdoors #explore #xpmetaldetectors #xpfinds #xpdeus #norfolkbuttonboy #detection #detectorist #reels #video https://www.instagram.com/p/CpS06abLefC/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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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!!)

[ancientstuff]

Another huge coin hoard found, and I am as yet hoardless. I really should move to a country that has the slightest possibility of coin hoards. New Zealand is sadly lacking in them, although perfect in many other ways.

[mdzsao3]

The Rituals Are Intricate

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[averixus]

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

[greenskyotter]

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

[treasurevalleymdc]

July Member Winner - Martin Sigler

[sirgawin]

Detectorists, Series 2 (2015)