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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.
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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.
For a lot of folks, they hear the term ‘metal detecting’ and automatically imagine the crazy old guy they saw walking up and down the shoreline on their beach vacation last summer. But when you look at this surprisingly addictive hobby, there’s so much more to it than just looking funny at the beach. In this guide, you’ll learn what this hobby is all about, why it has become so popular, what you’ll need to get started, and so much more! chapter 1: how to get started metal detecting what you need to know to get started when you’re first starting out and not sure if you’ll even like the hobby (or if budget is a concern), you’ll want to get yourself an entry-level detector, a few accessories, and definitely some know-how.
A 800-year-old cache of gold jewelry and silver coins was discovered in northern germany. And where there’s newly unearthed gold, there’s quite likely an amateur metal detectorist who located it. Nicki andreas steinmann was a trainee learning how to use a metal detector with an instructor when, while walking a tract of land close to hedeby and danewerk world heritage site in the state of schleswig-holstein, the pair stumbled upon gold artifacts and coins. Once unearthed, the hoard, as indicated by the coins found stacked upon one another, looked to have been buried all at once. Nicki andreas steinmann, the trainee metal detectorist, with his discovery.
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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.
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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.