The story says that he gets to keep his find less any agreement he had with the landowner. I thought the British Govt. got in on these finds. Surely these peices are museum quality.
Posted on 11/05/2009 11:46:18 AM PST by BGHater
Five days after he took delivery of a metal detector and seven steps into his first treasure hunt, a novice archaeologist has helped to rewrite Scottish history and may be a millionaire after he unearthed four 2,300-year-old torcs made of pure gold a few feet from his parked car.
David Booth, a game warden at Blair Drummond Safari Park, in Stirlingshire, bought his £240 detector from a website that claimed “treasure need not be an idle dream”. What then seemed an absurd sales puff has proved strangely prophetic. The hoard he discovered at the edge of a field was described yesterday as “prime Iron Age bling” by one leading archaeologist and is conservatively valued at £500,000, rising to £1.5 million.
Mr Booth, 35, said there was a “sense of disbelief” about his discovery. “I saw a glimpse of one of them, then uncovered the rest of the hoard. They were in a wee group. Half me was saying, ‘that does look important’, but I was thinking I couldn’t be that lucky on my first go.
“I took them home, gave them a wee clean up and went online. I looked at some torcs and kind of guessed this was iron age history.”
He guessed correctly. Mr Booth’s find, made on September 29, is the most significant discovery of Iron Age metalwork in Scotland and is said to be of international significance.
The hoard comprises four necklaces, all dating from the 3rd century BC. Two ribbon torcs, in perfect condition, are relatively simple in design and represent a local style of jewellery made from a twisted ribbon of gold. A third, broken item is half of an ornate torc of southern French origin, probably from the Toulouse area and the only one of its kind found in Britain.
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One of the Monkees.
They look very sophisticated, refined and beautiful for thing that are ancient. The workmanship is amazing. The ancient weren’t who most think they were.
The story says that he gets to keep his find less any agreement he had with the landowner. I thought the British Govt. got in on these finds. Surely these peices are museum quality.
I suspect that the ancients were more sophisticated and refined than we credit them.
Dude
They invented BEER - sheer genius!
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