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Midlands / Staffs Detectorists – Please can you help?

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Midlands / Staffs Detectorists – Please can you help?

Blind 95 year old war hero Alfred Barlow recently lost his prized collection of war medals at Norton Cane Motorway Services near Cannock.

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http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/blind-d-day-veterans-appeal-13221598

Trevor Beattie is offering £1000 to anyone who finds them and has organised a group of sea cadets to go to to Cannock services and scan the area for them TOMORROW MORNING – Friday 30th June.

BBC Midlands Today and other press will be attending and it would be fantastic if as many Detectorists as possible were able to come and help with the search also please?

Any questions please email Keaton – bbckeaton@gmail.com

Many thanks – lets find Alfred’s medals!!

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Cleaning your finds

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The barrelling kit is a great accessory to clean some of your finds. It gives perfect results every time.

before-after-barrelling-coin-cleaningBarrelling machine can be used for cleaning and polishing certain kinds of metal, stone and plastics. Partially fill the drum with steel shapes in the soap solution provided. Then add the objects to be cleaned and rotate for a period of time.

after-and-after-barrellingThe machine can give a variety of finishes including matt and polished and can be used to remove sharp edges and scratches.

cleaned-with-barrelling-kitThis is a very harsh method of cleaning and is generally used for solid copper-alloy objects such as recent coinage or modern badges etc.

barrelling-cleanedDo not use on items that are plated, enamelled or have stones in them as this will be removed.

barrelling-kit-inside This 3lb barrelling machine is manufactured in the UK, is fully quality tested for optimum performance. Additional barrels, accessories and parts are available.

Barrelling Kit, complete with steel shapes, soap and full instructions.

Dimensions: Barrel – 11.5cm diameter x 14cm width, Machine – 21cm x 13cm x 13cm.

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Rare gold coin found by a metal detectorist

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Rare gold coin worth £15,000 is found by an amateur treasure hunter who thought it was a bottle top.

A rare gold coin dating back to the 15th century has been unearthed by an amateur treasure hunter –  who thought it was a bottle top. The prized coin was struck during the brief 86-day reign of King Edward V who was murdered in the Tower of London. Brian Biddle, 64, found the Angel coin using a metal detector in a farmer’s field where it had laid undisturbed for 533 years.

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The land in Tolpuddle, Dorset, had been repeatedly searched over the years by members of the Stour Valley Search and Recovery Club before Brian turned up with his detector. He realised he was getting warmer in his hunt for a piece of treasure when his device sounded the alarm. Mr Biddle said: ‘At first I thought it was a bottle top as we find a lot of things like that. But once I got it out of the ground I realised it was a gold coin.’

Mr Biddle, from Bournemouth, took his lucky find to the Dorchester Museum. Experts identified it as an Angel coin with an image of Archangel Saint Michael slaying a dragon and the legend ‘Edward Di Gra’ which shows it was minted during the reign of Edward V.

It will be sold at auction in London and has been valued at £15,000.

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/

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2,500 years old gold artefacts unearthed in Staffordshire

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Two metal detectorists unearthed artefacts which could be the oldest Iron Age gold discovered in Britain. Mark Hambleton made the find with Joe Kania on Staffordshire Moorlands farmland. The three necklaces and bracelet, named the Leekfrith Iron Age Torcs, are believed to be about 2,500 years old. Julia Farley of the British Museum said that this unique find is of international importance.

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Dr Farley, the museum’s curator of British and European Iron Age collections, said: “It dates to around 400-250 BC and is probably the earliest Iron Age gold work ever discovered in Britain. The torcs were probably worn by wealthy and powerful women, perhaps people from the Continent who had married into the local community. Piecing together how these objects came to be carefully buried in a Staffordshire field will give us an invaluable insight into life in Iron Age Britain.”

The four torcs were found separately, about 1m apart, buried near the surface in Leekfrith last December. The artefacts have been handed to the Portable Antiquities Scheme, which is part of Birmingham Museums. An inquest will decide whether the pieces are treasure and they will then be provisionally valued. The friends said they would share any proceeds with the family living where the finds were made.

 

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/

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Metal detectorist unearthed XVII century treasure

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Part of a silver cufflink dating back to the 17th century has been unearthed by a metal detector enthusiast on farmland in Messingham. North Lincolnshire coroner Paul Kelly – at a treasure trove hearing in Scunthorpe – declared the rare find was treasure. The silver disc decorated with a pair of hearts beneath a crown was found by Andrew Mitchell, from Rotherham, at Lowmoor Farm on September 20 last year.

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Experts from the British Museum reported to Mr Kelly that the disc dated to between 1662 and 1700 when the fashion for cufflinks to fasten sleeves developed. The crown-and-hearts motif might have celebrated the marriage of Charles II and Catherine of Braganza in 1662. It was also thought the Messingham treasure had royalist and/or Catholic associations.

Under the Treasure Act 1996, finders of objects which constitute a legally defined term of treasure are obliged to report their find to their local coroner within 14 days. If it is declared to be treasure, then the finder must offer the item for sale to a museum at a price set by an independent board of antiquities experts known as the Treasure Valuation Committee. Only if a museum expresses no interest in the item, or is unable to purchase it, can the finder retain it.

Read more: http://www.scunthorpetelegraph.co.uk/

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New Products From XP

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XP MI6 pinpoint probe and 9″ high frequency coil along with the Version 4 for XP Deus are due end of February – beginning of March as confirmed by XP today.

To pre-order please send as an email requesting the product. Include your name and contact telephone number.

http://regton.com/xp-mi-6-pinpointer.html

http://regton.com/9-xp-high-frequency-deus-coil.html

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