Posted on 07/13/2022 8:17:45 AM PDT by Red Badger
When will people learn to keep their mouths shut?
The government gets what, all of it?
I hate these archeology/paleontology news because they imply something was JUST found, when in fact it happened years ago.
No one wants to tell the news.
I think the only time we got timely “discovery” reporting was when the Titanic was spotted.
Must have been made at wine harvest festival time...............
A friend of mine managed a tree farm on the banks of the lower Umpqua River in Oregon. He and his crew always found plenty of arrowheads and a spear point or two after plowing.
They are worthless. I can’t find a single vending machine that takes them.
Can you see all those Romans burying their stash and telling it don’t worry I’ll be back ,LOL
Not just Romans, but common Anglicans as well. The coin of the realm was ROMAN..................
Yep, my aunt had a Spear point about 4 inches long and a Corn Grinding Stone she found on their farm!................
My XP Deus II metal detector will pay off big one of these days. (I do pretty well, but nowhere near THAT we’ll). The metal detectorist Ed in the UK have it pretty good access to unbelievable finds, but must turn hoards into the government and hope they get their “fair value” payback after years and years of litigation.
I had an obsidian scraper when I was a kid, found it near the Malheur Cave in SE Oregon. I eventually lost it, of course.
Not to worry. Someone will find it in another 2000 years. AND it will be worth a lot more than it is today!
I think that’s because people would shave just a little bit of the edge off, save the gold, then do it every time a coin passed through their hands. Soon they had a small stash of “extra” gold.
That’s why the edges of modern coins are beveled, so you can see if someone has shaved off metal.
I used to find musketballs all the time when I was a kid. We lived near to where the final battle with Santa Anna was fought in the Texas Revolution.
LOL…best and most obvious explanation!
Shouldn't this news have waited until next month?
We've already had July's Caesar story about the guy being excavated from a pizza vent.
Yes, people did that. But wouldn’t you do it evenly around the entire circumference of the coin? Why would you trim it to make the die perfectly off center on the blank?
Theyre gold.
There is an 80 acre field adjoining our property. 40 years ago it got plowed by a local farmer once a year for corn and was full of arrowheads and large potsherds.
Around 20 years ago a commercial grower operation bought it and has heavily worked the ground plowing, harrowing, grading and moving soil around. Now all you can find are small broken bits of arrowheads and tiny potsherds.
Not all especially ancient are “hoarding”. More likely just dropped and missed.
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