Her sister hoard half of it.
Posted on 12/12/2021 12:09:38 PM PST by SunkenCiv
About 200 artefacts have been unearthed after two Bronze Age hoards were found by metal detectorists.
A 13-year-old girl uncovered a hoard of about 65 axes and other items on her third detecting trip in a field near Royston, Hertfordshire, and another hoard was found close by.
Archaeologists excavated about 200 items from the adjacent sites.
The council said the hoards could be related and both were being treated as potential treasure.
The items were being sent to the British Museum where experts will examine them.
The first hoard, including axe heads dating from about 1300BC, was found in September by 13-year-old Milly, from Suffolk, who was detecting with her father.
When he dug out the first item, Milly said they joked it might be an axe - and it was.
Other detectorists, on the same organised trip, identified another potential hoard very close to Milly's axes.
Archaeologists from Cambridgeshire County Council and Oxford Archaeology East were immediately called to professionally excavate the two sites the following day...
Milly plans to go out with her dad every Sunday in the hope of finding another hoard, she said.
Milly said if she was offered any money for her part of the find, it would be split equally with the landowner.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Here comes a horde of reavers! Quick, let's bury everything of value in order to relate to the world around us!
In the area where Visser did her research, metals did not occur naturally and were very valuable. ‘They had to be imported from far away. These trade networks were important. People wanted to express that their communities belonged to intraregional networks. Depositions were a way for people to relate to the world around them and their place within it.’
Mysterious metal depositions were ‘the most ordinary thing in the world’ | December 6, 2021
Her sister hoard half of it.
Two of my favorite types of you tubes to watch are metal detecting in the UK and mud larking on the Thames.
Nice find!
That axe head in the middle looks perfect
Oof!
Thanks for the ping!
It’s a trap. Soon as you upgrade to a bronze ax, a new model comes out.
Actually it was a Chevrolet axe and it broke when they finished the last payment.
That place used to be a pawn shop. Some dudes pawned their axes & never came back to claim them.
“metal detectorists”
Ist. Ist can create anything.
“Milly said if she was offered any money for her part of the find, it would be split equally with the landowner.”
Milly? Just one name?
Did she have an agreement with the landowner?
Seems to me it belongs to him 100%
Think it is split under English law.
If the metal object is actually buried and not simply lost in the woods or weeds, then I could make a guess as to why it would have been buried. Axes have always been valuable to men who lived off the land. Consider if a man knew he was dying and that ax was his most valuable tool and he had no one to pass it to, or is alone when he is dying. Would he bury his valuable ax?
This likely would not make sense to most. It does to me. I am very old and the one thing constantly on my mind as I live alone with only the items that I have treasured, and no one to give them to. I would love to bury my most precious items in some place in the woods, because they are useless to anyone else. If I had the land I would bury my Ax.
I’ve got land and often thought about burying my ex
Oh...wait..
Recompense for the landowner/tenant and discoverer(s) is the current market value as determined by the 'Treasure Valuation Committee' which will also determine share amounts to the various parties. If the 'treasure' does not interest any museum, it is returned to the interested parties for their own disposition.
FYI: For a discovery to be subject to the UK Treasure Act, one of the following must be true;
1) "All coins from the same find, if it consists of two or more coins, and as long as they are at least 300 years old when found. If they contain less than 10% gold or silver there must be at least 10 in the find for it to qualify."
2. "Two or more prehistoric base metal objects in association with one another"
3. "Any individual (non-coin) find that is at least 300 years old and contains at least 10% gold or silver."
4. "Associated finds: any object of any material found in the same place as (or which had previously been together with) another object which is deemed treasure."
5. "Objects substantially made from gold or silver but are less than 300 years old, that have been deliberately hidden with the intention of recovery and whose owners or heirs are unknown."
Royston is in Hertfordshire, due north of London and southeast of Cambridge.
“Think it is split under English law.”
Thanks. Could be. I don’t know.
But if so she wouldn’t need to say shed split it as if she didn’t need to.
As a casual observer, I believe that the Treasure Act has worked pretty well, preserving the interests of the discoverer and the landowner, along with the historical value of the find. Some claim that these hoards would bring more on an open (black) market, but I don’t think so. The valuations seem to be about right, although certainly exceptions exist.
Same here! Mudlarking and metal detecting on YouTube including people like Nugget Noggin and chill Bill. I’ve only mudlarked on the Thames once. Can’t wait to go back and do it again!
“Soon as you upgrade to a bronze ax, a new model comes out.”
You mean like vaccines? Has anyone seen Fauci or Gates skulking around the English countryside lately?
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