Published by The Sentinel, Monday 9th July, 2012
THE secrets of the Staffordshire Hoard are set to be unlocked by a major research project.
A £276,000 grant from English Heritage will allow the hoard’s 3,500 items to be properly catalogued for the first time.
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Published by The Mail Online, by Anthony Bond, Monday 9th July, 2012
Silver and gold has been discovered by experts working on the record £10million coin hoard that was discovered in Jersey last week.
The haul contains between 30,000 and 50,000 Celtic coins and was discovered by metal detector enthusiasts Reg Mead and Richard Miles.
They are currently in one solid mass and work is being carried out to evaluate what else is in the find.
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Published by The Post Review, written by Derrick Knutson on Wednesday 13th June, 2012
Vana Scheele showed off her 1965 class ring which was buried on Clayton Anderson’s property near Hwy. 95 and Co. rd. 14. North Branch resident John Peterson unearthed the ring while metal detecting on Memorial Day. Photo by Derrick Knutson
When North Branch resident John Peterson found that ring while metal detecting on Memorial Day – covered in just inches of soil – he told his neighbor, Grace Johnson, about the find.
That was the start of the ring’s journey back to its rightful owner.
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Published by StLToday, written by Valerie Schremp Hahn, Wednesday 20th June, 2012.
It’s a history lesson, a treasure hunt, a nature encounter and Christmas morning all rolled into one.
And to “coinshooters” like Brent Halwachs of Caseyville, nothing beats the bleeps and bloops of a metal detector.
Because those sounds signal something: Possibility.
“It could be jewelry, coins, you just never know,” said Halwachs, kneeling on the ground recently at Woodland Park in Collinsville, carefully digging at a small piece of turf where his detector had signaled seconds earlier.
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Published by The Herald Express, Friday 22nd June, 2012.
EXCAVATIONS to uncover what is believed to be a major Roman town in the heart of South Devon are set to take place this summer.
The major archaeological dig is planned for rural Teignbridge, on the outskirts of Newton Abbot, after a chance find of ancient coins (pictured) by metal detector enthusiast Geoff Fox and his friend Shaun Pitts led to the discovery of the largest Roman settlement ever found in Devon
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Published by Wigan Today, Thursday 28th June 2012
A STUNNING Bronze Age axe-head has been unearthed in Wigan.
Edwina Abbott, who owns Fir Tree Farm in Billinge, never imagined that historian Stephen Hickling would find a 4,000-year-old relic when she agreed to let him search its acreage with his metal detector.
But she admits that, at first, she thought the 4ins bronze axe-head was just “a rusty old piece of metal”!
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Published by Liverpool Echo, written by Sean Bradbury, Friday June 28th, 2012.
Fifty-two-year-old historian Steve Hickling, from Huyton, was hunting for treasure in the grounds of Fir Tree Farm Shop and Cafe, in St Helens, earlier this year when he uncovered the axe head.
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Published by Daily Mail, written by Jane Fryer, Saturday 30th June, 2012
Some people might shy away from spending their weekends and holidays trudging up and down the same soggy field in Jersey, drenched by horizontal rain, ears squashed flat by a pair of enormous padded headphones, and pausing only to unearth an empty Coke can or a rusty old thimble from the mud.
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Published by UPI.com, Wednesday 27th June, 2012
JERSEY, England, June 27 (UPI) — Archaeologists in Britain say a hoard of Roman and Celtic coins worth $15 million has been unearthed on the island of Jersey.
Two metal detector enthusiasts found the hoard, dated to the 1st century B.C. and described by experts as “extremely exciting and very significant.”
The hoard weighed about three-quarters of a ton and could contain about 50,000 coins.
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Published by The Register, Written by Brid-Aine Parnell, Thursday 28th June 2012
Reg Mead and Richard Miles went over the same area with their detectors over and over again for the last 30 years before finally finding thousands of Celtic coins that could be worth up to £10m, although ownership of the coins has yet to be decided, the Sun reported via the South West News agency.
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