Posted on 05/13/2026 9:48:56 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Robert Fooks swung a pickaxe into his kitchen floor to steal a few more inches of ceiling height. Instead, he cracked open a glazed pottery bowl that had been sitting in the earth beneath his 400-year-old Dorset cottage since the English Civil War. Inside sat roughly 1,000 gold and silver coins, untouched since someone buried them in the mid-1640s.
The story surfaced after the coins sold at auction in 2024. The hoard lay hidden beneath the kitchen floor at South Poorton Farm until Robert and Betty Fooks decided to lower the ground level during a renovation...
The couple bought the property in 2019 and launched a full-scale renovation. Stripping the kitchen back to its stone walls, they dug down nearly two feet. Under a layer of old flagstones and bare earth, Robert's pickaxe hit the bowl...
The Poorton Coin Hoard includes gold and silver currency from the reigns of five monarchs, stretching from Edward VI through Charles I. The coins range from worn sixpences to a gold unite valued at 20 shillings. Gold coins bear the faces of James I and Charles I. Silver half crowns, shillings, and sixpences carry the marks of Elizabeth I and Philip and Mary...
Julian Smith, a specialist at Duke's Auctioneers, described the dig site. "The modern concrete floor was removed and the floor dug down by nearly 2ft to provide greater height to the downstairs of the property," he said. "In some areas there were old flagstones under the concrete but the area the coins were found was bare earth."
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You’ll be waiting a long time, because what they’ve uncovered there is that there has never been a mysterious treasure buried on Oak Island. But their journey to nowhere has been entertaining.
And prevents true historical treasures from getting locked away in private collections for decades. It’s a good law.
I skimmed right over that line. That’s hilarious. The author showed restraint. Imagine what he could have done with “Betty Fooks.”
Betty had a lot of courage marrying Robert. But just imagine if her maiden name was “Alot” and she went the hyphenated name route.
You’re just prejudiced against sociopaths.
The picture is a stock image of “treasure” not a picture of the actual coins found under the floor.
No, They put the hoard up for auction. Honestly!
Bummer.
Yeah, I was working through that with my therapist, really making progress, then caught him in bed with my girlfriend. And my sister. And my mother.
Thank you, Conservatives!
Thank you, Conservatives!
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