Month: August 2012

Article | High Weald hoard of Roman coins on display in Sussex | March 2012

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15 March 2012

Nearly 3,000 silver Roman coins found four years ago by a metal detector enthusiast in Sussex are to go on display in the county.

The High Weald hoard, discovered by Tim Symonds about 30 miles north of Brighton, has been bought by Brighton’s Royal Pavilion and Museums.

The coins, worth about £40,000, were bought with help from the Heritage Lottery Fund.

They will go on display at Brighton Museum this summer and tour next year.

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Article | High Weald hoard of Roman coins on display in Sussex | March 2012

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15 March 2012

Nearly 3,000 silver Roman coins found four years ago by a metal detector enthusiast in Sussex are to go on display in the county.

The High Weald hoard, discovered by Tim Symonds about 30 miles north of Brighton, has been bought by Brighton’s Royal Pavilion and Museums.

The coins, worth about £40,000, were bought with help from the Heritage Lottery Fund.

They will go on display at Brighton Museum this summer and tour next year.

-Taken from Article

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Article | Hoard of ‘thousands’ of Viking coins found on Gotland

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Published by World-Archaeology, Thursday April 12th , 2012 

The site, in Rone parish, was investigated last Thursday (April 5) on the final day of a county-wide archaeological survey of sites thought to be threatened by looters. After receiving strong signals from a metal detector, Museum of Gotland archaeologists found a bronze barrel filled withsilver coins about a foot below the surface of the soil.

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Article | Bronze age hoard found in West Wales farm declared treasure | Feb 2012

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Published by Wales Online, Saturday 25th Feb 2012

A BRONZE Age hoard thought to have been buried more than 3,000 years ago as an offering to the gods was yesterday declared treasure after being found on a Welsh farm.

The collection of 13 bronze artefacts, including part of a bronze bracelet, fragments of a large bronze spearhead and a complete bronze socketed axe, will go on public display after the declaration by the coroner for Carmarthenshire.

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Article | The Living People in Charge of Dark Ages

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Posted by The National Geographic, written by Andrew Howley on February 4, 2012

The Dark Ages are a little bit brighter now that viewers can see for themselves the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon treasure ever found. Visitors to the National Geographic Museum in Washington, D.C. have the chance to view pieces from the Staffordshire Hoard for one more month, before the treasure is packed up and shipped back to Britain after March 4, 2012.

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Article | Funds needed to keep Viking hoard in South Cumbria

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Published by BBC News Cumbria,  Tuesday 17th April 2012

A fundraising appeal is under way to keep a Viking treasure find within South Cumbria.

The Furness Hoard of Viking Treasure was found a year ago at an undisclosed site by a metal detector enthusiast.

Campaigners need to raise £50,000 to buy and put it on display at the Dock Museum in Barrow.

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Nigel’s recent visit to the XP HQ: Inside XP

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Nigel very recently visited the XP HQ inFrance.  So we thought we would give you a whistle stop tour of inside the factory and to introduce some of the XP employee’s.

Here we can see the production team in action at the XP facility. Everyone of the team is dedicated to producing the highest quality detectors possible. Attention to detail is important as each detector is readied for use in the field.

 

 

 

Here is Jean at the service station. Jean has been a repair technician for several years, also an avid underwater detectorist

Victoria carefully installs the circuitry in DEUS headphones.

 

 

 

 

Joelle on the assembly line.

Catherine, who has been part of the team for several years, is one the XP programmers.

 

 

 

 A box of DEUS headphone front panels roll of the assembly line.

 

Isabelle carefully assembles the keypads for the wireless headphones.

 

 Production manager Cedric keeps operations running smoothly.

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Article | On the trail of historical treasures

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Published by Daily News, the Voice of Tehama County since 1985

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (MCT) – They look for places where pioneers heading west climbed from covered wagons to assess a creek crossing. Places where blue coats and gray coats camped and perhaps traded gunfire. Places where families picnicked and played at the water’s edge.

And when they find these places, they look for buried treasure.

Once a month they gather to wave their wands across the earth in search of traces of the past before a modern-day picnic of grilled hot dogs and potluck fare. Welcome to a typical meeting of the Mid-Western Artifact Society.

One recent Sunday morning, two dozen members combed the grounds of an old Boy Scout camping spot at the southern edge of Swope Park in Kansas City, Mo. After a little socializing, it was time to do some “ground fishing,” as metal detecting is sometimes known.

Some members wandered with their instruments in the shade of old oak trees and at the edges of woods. Others paced in a grid pattern across open, grassy areas. All wore some type of utility apron to pocket trash as well as any treasures.

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Article | Hunting for relics: Vincennes man uses metal detectors to unearth treasures from Ind. history

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Published by Green field Reporter, Jenny Peter,  Vincennes Sun-Commercial, Friday 10th August.

VINCENNES, Ind. — To the untrained — or maybe unwilling — eye, Nobert Brown’s extensive collection of glass bottles, coins and beat-up looking toys and jewelry might look like, well, like a pile of junk.

But not to him.

“It’s the thrill of the hunt for me,” Brown said, gazing out over a table filled with his prized stuff. “And half the fun is in identifying what I find.”

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