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The miniature gold book discovered by buffy and ian bailey in north yorkshire. Image credit: buffy and ian bailey
while out metal 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.
Christmas Special (2015) [ edit ]
The detectorists return for a christmas special. Five years after the last episode. This is not a special set in foreign lands, just a new field. Andy (mackenzie crook) and lance (toby jones) have got permission from a farmer to explore a new field that has so far remain unexplored. However a character change overcomes lance as he discovers piece of gold. Greed overtakes him as he wants to take sole credit for the big
find
that all detectorists dream about.
Eventually lance sees sense thanks to his wife and re-buries the item and invites everyone for an open dig.
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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.
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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.