#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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[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

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Detectorists 2022 Special

"Well no, the Holy Grail is the holy grail of treasure hunting." - Andy, Series 1 Episode 1.

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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

[merinsedai]

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?

[saltwaterandstars]

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.

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

[lenapalmdeath]

Masters Of Make Believe - Chapter 25

Will you search through the lonely earth for me?

or Oh, Bucky, what have you done ?

Steve knew before he even turned on the light that he was alone in the apartment. The living room lamp revealed a piece of paper on the coffee table, in the spidery handwriting he'd come to recognize. Steve sat down on the couch and stared at the note for a moment without reading it, before standing up and heading to the kitchen for a glass of water. He returned to the white rectangle which would undoubtedly enclose something he'd been dreading since he came back to New York with Bucky, maybe even since he placed his lips on the musician's in a San Francisco bar. The young man who eluded him in so many ways, even when he was right up against him, would inevitably slip away, and his disappearance would leave a void that Steve had long known to be abysmal. He took the paper in his hands, and resolved to read it.

Steve,

Like dear old Jack, I need to leave New York for a while.

"Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road."

Too much turmoil under my skull, and I'm just not ready to face the epic storm building around us. The only option I can think of today is to take off, like a coward. I so wish I knew how to stay. I hope you can forgive me one day…

Steve put the note back on the table, took a deep breath and slowly stood up.

"Will you search through the lonely earth for me? Climb through the briar and bramble I'll be your treasure I felt the touch of the kings and the breath of the wind I knew the call of all the song birds They sang all the wrong words I'm waiting for you I'm waiting for you Will you swim through the briny sea for me? Roll along the ocean's floor? I'll be your treasure I'm with the ghosts of the men who can never sing again There's a place, follow me Where a love lost at sea Is waiting for you Is waiting for you"

CW : mention of sexual abuse

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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.

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

[sirgawin]

Detectorists, Series 2 (2015)

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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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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

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