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Posted on 23-09-2023 01:25 PM
The miniature gold book discovered by buffy and ian bailey in north yorkshire. Image credit: buffy and ian bailey
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detecting on rural land near york in 2021, nhs nurse buffy bailey and her husband ian uncovered a 600-year-old miniature gold artefact, worked into the appearance of a tiny devotional book. The artefact, measuring just 1. 5cm long, is inscribed with figures thought to be the patron saints of childbirth, including st margaret of antioch.
As such, it’s thought that the object may have been gifted to a pregnant woman as a devotional tool to protect her during childbirth.
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Informal a person whose hobby is using a metal detector
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304 page hardback 16. 38*3. 3*24. 26cm when locked-down travel writer nigel richardson is looking for a travel story close to his country cottage he turns to a leading metal detectorist with an infectious passion for the hobby. Before he knows it the mysteries of the fields are leading him on, into a world that casts the history of these isles and its people in an intriguing new light. Sifting britain’s soil from portsmouth to edinburgh, nigel yearns to lose his detectorist’s virginity by finding a ‘hammered’ coin – while learning that the search for treasure comes with a serious responsibility to our common heritage.
Sure this is the first thing that comes to your mind. Well, the same is about all the rest diggers. Therefore, don’t expect too much from this idea, especially if metal detecting is rather popular in your country. Look for old maps on the internet, learn to process them, match ancient and modern maps. Visit a local library, if you have a chance, and you will find lots of interesting stuff there. Read historical literature about the area where you live. Local history experts and historians provide lots of useful information in their writings. Match the information you get with the maps.
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Thursday, may 4, 2023 1:29 am by kathryn finegan clark philip s. Getty thinks of his metal detecting passion as “dirt fishing. ”“it is a bit like fishing,” the solebury man says. “you feel a slight tug and instead of a bass, it’s a pull tab or a piece of tin. But you go a bit farther and it’s a bigger tug, ‘a find,’ something historical. ”unlike many metal detectorists, who are seeking to reap treasure from the soil for themselves, phil always gives his finds to the property owner. He labels them and presents them in a little glass box.
Authorities announced monday that two incredibly rare roman cavalry swords were uncovered in the cotswolds, england, during a metal detectorist rally. The two roman cavalry swords were found along with their wooden scabbards and fitments, according to a press release from the cotswold district council. There was also a broken copper alloy bowl discovered with the weaponry. Fitments were discovered by glenn manning during a metal detectorist rally in the north of the cotswolds. The swords have been appraised by professor simon james from leicester university who says that these weapons are middle imperial roman swords, which are often referred to as a spatha.
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Crook plays andy. Toby jones is lance. In 2014, in the very first episode, we were introduced to the pair detecting in a ploughed field. Andy had found "three shotgun caps and a blakey". Lance pulled something out of the ground. "what you got?" asked andy. Inspecting his find through a magnifying glass, lance replied: "ring pull. '83. Tizer. " metal detecting is not all roman gold and saxon hoards. In fact, it very rarely is. Why do they do it? "metal detecting is the closest you'll get to time travel," lance explains. "see, archaeologists, they gather up the facts, piece the jigsaw together, work out how we lived.