Popular Post seeder Posted October 13, 2014 Popular Post #1 Share Posted October 13, 2014 Here once again, a UK metal detectorist got lucky!! Metal detectorist finds Britain's biggest ever haul of Viking treasure - with hundreds of artefacts including an ancient silver cross Location searched by enthusiast Derek McLennan for a year without success Locale is not being identified by the Church of Scotland which owns land Derek McLennan speechless when he made discovery in early September Hoard includes possibly the largest silver pot from Carolingian dynasty discovered and could be up to 1,200-years-old http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2790197/metal-detectorist-finds-britain-s-biggest-haul-viking-treasure-hundreds-artefacts-including-ancient-silver-cross.html#ixzz3G0nUZrn1 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davros of Skaro Posted October 13, 2014 #2 Share Posted October 13, 2014 Great find. One time I thought I hit it big.I dug a 3 foot hole till I found that the signal dropped when I placed the Coil at the bottom.Turns out I was digging right in the middle of a metal Wagon Wheel Rim. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeder Posted October 13, 2014 Author #3 Share Posted October 13, 2014 I cant wait for drier weather so I can get out in those fields with my detector !! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pallidin Posted October 13, 2014 #4 Share Posted October 13, 2014 Great read. Good job again, seeder. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Hammerclaw Posted October 13, 2014 #5 Share Posted October 13, 2014 Read about it earlier. You guys got it made, Just put a spade in the ground practically anywhere, and you turn up history, albeit not always as spectacular as this! Can't wait to see it all cleaned up and shiny. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Hammerclaw Posted October 13, 2014 #6 Share Posted October 13, 2014 I cant wait for drier weather so I can get out in those fields with my detector !! Old cemeteries and churchyards are a great place to look. One of my ancestors buried a horde of gold and silver in a graveyard during the Civil War and forgot to mark the spot, clearly, and no one has ever found it. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldorado Posted October 13, 2014 #7 Share Posted October 13, 2014 Old cemeteries and churchyards are a great place to look. One of my ancestors buried a horde of gold and silver in a graveyard during the Civil War and forgot to mark the spot, clearly, and no one has ever found it. Arch Stanton? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Hammerclaw Posted October 13, 2014 #8 Share Posted October 13, 2014 Arch Stanton? No, his last name was Ward, my grandfather's grandfather in Murfreesboro. It was buried in or near the family burial ground on his farm, and the ground became so torn up and denuded by the horses and foragers of an encampment of Union soldiers, he could never find it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qxcontinuum Posted October 13, 2014 #9 Share Posted October 13, 2014 (edited) i always wished to look for antiques in some of the historical sites. It is one of the things i have in my "must do " list Edited October 13, 2014 by qxcontinuum 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zebra99 Posted October 13, 2014 #10 Share Posted October 13, 2014 That gold pin in the article... By the shape of it's beak it's a flamingo.Where the heck did a Norse craftsman see a flamingo? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jyre Cayce Posted October 13, 2014 #11 Share Posted October 13, 2014 (edited) The lucky guy, great job. Edited October 13, 2014 by Jyre Cayce 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSpoonyOne Posted October 13, 2014 #12 Share Posted October 13, 2014 Weird, I just happened to be reading about the Staffordshire horde today... These coincidences seem to happen to me way too often, I'll be wishing an obscure film appear on television and low and behold it will the same day, okay so that's not quite a coincidence as it could be, but the weirdest one so far that I've encountered was me going on Google Maps one day, out of boredom/interest I suppose, and looking for the most remote place I could see on the globe to try and do a street view, I ended up on somewhere unknown to me called Wrangel Island, that afternoon I'm watching a game show or something that had "Wrangel Island" as an answer to something, that was a really weird coincidence that I just happened to choose that obscure location of the globe the same day. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theotherguy Posted October 13, 2014 #13 Share Posted October 13, 2014 Between the Vikings, the Romans, the Angles, the Saxons, the Celts, and pretty much every other European culture, there has got to be tons--literally tons--of valuables buried around the British Isles. If I was any sort of collector, that's where I would start. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tipotep Posted October 14, 2014 #14 Share Posted October 14, 2014 Arch Stanton? LOL it was the grave marked unknown next to it " Unk , Unk , Unk ... it has no name on it " 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Hammerclaw Posted October 14, 2014 #15 Share Posted October 14, 2014 That gold pin in the article... By the shape of it's beak it's a flamingo.Where the heck did a Norse craftsman see a flamingo? There are two species native to the old world, one to southern Iberia. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorvir Posted October 14, 2014 #16 Share Posted October 14, 2014 Arch Stanton? I got that reference. Thanks. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aisling Posted October 22, 2014 #17 Share Posted October 22, 2014 And this is exactly why I want to go to the British Isles lol. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeder Posted May 14, 2017 Author #18 Share Posted May 14, 2017 UPDATE: Quote Metal detectorist rewarded with nearly £2m after unearthing Britain’s biggest Viking treasure The haul of 100 items has been described by experts 'of outstanding significance' http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/metal-detectorist-derek-mclennan-receive-2m-award-britain-biggest-viking-treasure-scotland-dumfries-a7733831.html 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gingitsune Posted May 14, 2017 #19 Share Posted May 14, 2017 On 10/13/2014 at 2:10 PM, zebra99 said: That gold pin in the article... By the shape of it's beak it's a flamingo.Where the heck did a Norse craftsman see a flamingo? About anywhere around the Mediterranean Sea + Portugal. On 10/13/2014 at 0:05 PM, Eldorado said: Arch Stanton? I had the same though. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolguy Posted May 22, 2017 #20 Share Posted May 22, 2017 Awesome its like hiting the lotto 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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