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Detectorist Finds Tudor Jewellery Inscribed With Initials of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon
Heritage Daily ^ | January 2023 | Historic England

Posted on 02/02/2023 8:15:34 AM PST by SunkenCiv

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To: jimtorr
"Actually, they are required to buy at market prices, as determined by a committee composed of surprisingly representative people."

And you have to share the value of the item with the person on whose land you found it...once there's a buyer.

61 posted on 02/02/2023 11:23:28 AM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: HandBasketHell

I actually don’t find this objectionable. A find like this - with such historical value - should belong to England, not to an individual who happened upon it. How do you even put a price on it? It should go to a museum, not an auction house where it will end up in the private collection of some Russian oligarch.


62 posted on 02/02/2023 11:25:40 AM PST by LizzieD
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To: Red Badger

I liked that too. She managed to keep her head, so maybe he did care a little. If think she kept the crown too.
Her refusal to accept an annulment gave rise to the Church of England.


63 posted on 02/02/2023 12:27:24 PM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: Bon of Babble

“I wonder how many find treasures and then shut up about it.”

Yep, sell it on the black market or just melt it down for future post apocalyptic use. Bound to be a prepper or two in England.


64 posted on 02/02/2023 12:56:03 PM PST by oldvirginian (A friend helps you move furniture. A Real friend helps you move bodies. Shhhh....)
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To: Bob434

“He didn’t find anything significant,. but the history was interesting”

Has he ever found anything??
But yeah, the object of the show, other than a paycheck for Gates, was getting people interested in history and archeology. Two subjects I’m fascinated with. Josh did get to some out of the way places and meet interesting people as well as introduce me to the benefits of LIDAR for archeology.


65 posted on 02/02/2023 1:05:04 PM PST by oldvirginian (A friend helps you move furniture. A Real friend helps you move bodies. Shhhh....)
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To: SunkenCiv

Wow. This is impressive!


66 posted on 02/02/2023 1:17:31 PM PST by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: Red Badger

You could try the backyard, instead of the couch. :P


67 posted on 02/02/2023 2:42:41 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: DannyTN

A detectorist would be someone out in a field with a metal detector. A detective would have a trench coat and a film noir vibe about him.


68 posted on 02/02/2023 3:54:53 PM PST by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: married21

So if Columbo used a metal detector he would be a detectivorist.


69 posted on 02/02/2023 4:00:14 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: DannyTN

I think so. 🤔


70 posted on 02/02/2023 4:09:50 PM PST by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: HandBasketHell

Unless you are a Biden.


71 posted on 02/02/2023 4:55:24 PM PST by Howie66 (Let's Go Brandon!!)
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To: SunkenCiv

You’re a descendant of Henry VII?


72 posted on 02/02/2023 5:43:27 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: oldvirginian

he supposedly has a “Big Foot” cast that has made the news- and has evidently found a few things- though it coulda been staged- for ratings-


73 posted on 02/02/2023 8:08:09 PM PST by Bob434
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To: DannyTN
"What’s the difference between a Detectorist and a Detective?"

Well...

One is spelled "Detectorist"

And, one is spelled "Detective".

74 posted on 02/02/2023 9:50:55 PM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: Bob434

I just remembered, Gates found some gold coins while diving with a guy looking for old shipwrecks. I guess he has found a few things after all.


75 posted on 02/02/2023 10:48:00 PM PST by oldvirginian (A friend helps you move furniture. A Real friend helps you move bodies. Shhhh....)
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To: lepton

😜🤦‍♂️👍...................................


76 posted on 02/03/2023 5:01:12 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Beowulf9

The way they carried on, crawling all over each other like a box of hamsters, maybe. :^)

Because the Tudors rose to power, a bunch of people wound up rising (and falling) in social status, and wound up in the relationships they were in, wound up being born in the first place, and those people are my ancestors.


77 posted on 02/03/2023 6:14:57 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: sauropod

Someone from the Tudor era could really have used a metal detector right after they lost it. :^)


78 posted on 02/03/2023 6:52:09 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: oldvirginian

Yep I remember that one. But, they could,be salting the areas to keep interest in his show going too, so I’m always a bit skeptical when they find stuff. Hard to know these days what is real and what isn’t because people are so desperate for views and likes that they will resort to anything.

The show bearing sea gold had two miners who “hated each ofher”, and who were in a bar one night for the show, and lo and behold one of the men charged the other one, with a glass in his hand, took a “swing at the toher fella” withmtha hand that held the drink, and you could clearly hear the cound of breaking glass.

Only problem for the show was that the “punch” wasn’t fast enough, and I caught a glimpse of the glass as he pulled his hand back down, and it was fully intact. I rewond the recording, and went frame by frame. The glass never touched the other fella, nor did it break.

I co fronted the show on their website forum about the show about the fact. They at first tried to deny it, I explained to the things i said above, and at that point they never wrote back on the forum about the incident. (And yes I’m that bored sometimes to do stuff like that lol)

The swamp gaotr hunter show is also full of fake scenes. Thye will show a large gator in water that is clearly deep and mud free and weed free, and then show the hunter “bravely diving in to retrieve his grappling hook” or whatever, and the water he dives into is chockerblock full of weeds, muddy brown, and not deep at all.

I’ve seen tryst show do things like that on a regular basis to hype the show.

There was one incident though where Troy Landry’s some bot impaled in the thigh by the large gator hook. There was no faking that. He hardly even flinched when it hapend or when the emergency nurses removed it. That boy is a tough dude. He was back hunting the next day.

I guess I’ve rambled on- uggh. Sorry


79 posted on 02/03/2023 7:51:57 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Bob434

“I guess I’ve rambled on- uggh. Sorry”

I’ve done that a time or three, no problem.😇

Most of those shows they have to add a little excitement or they would be boring as hell. Troy Landry is Old School tough. I would address him as Sir or Swamp King or whatever he wanted.


80 posted on 02/03/2023 8:37:43 AM PST by oldvirginian (A friend helps you move furniture. A Real friend helps you move bodies. Shhhh....)
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