I should head to Great Kills beach.
Though a dead boy detector would yield more results.
PinGGG!....................
Pennies....made out of silver.
Pity they didn’t call in someone to properly excavate the site.
I’m a detectorist too. I’m still waiting to find my hoard.
What a time of upheaval William’s reign must have been. He overthrew a government and entire ruling class, and turned society upside down - removing the Anglo-Saxon ruling class, replacing all the clergy, turning land over to loyal Norman (foreign and French-speaking) nobility, and then trying to find and strip as much wealth as possible to fight rebellions, fund his new kingdom, and its various wars.
If you had money, the only thing you could do would be to bury it.
This br8hgs to mind one of my favorite BBC series ever titled, “The Detectorists.”
Congratulations to the government of Great Britain. That is quite the haul. Thanks citizen for filling the coffers.
Here’s hoping it was a 10,000 coin hoard and they were giving the devil his due so as to avoid rousing suspicion.
A metal-detecting couple have found one of the biggest treasure hoards in British history which is believed to be worth around £5million.
It just warms the cockles of my heart that the writer spelled ‘hoard’ correctly - unlike hordes of others who don’t know the difference.
From the headline, I thought they found Stormy Daniels
So, they didn’t shovel and shut up? Too bad.
If the coins are 1000 years old, they aren’t ancient coins, they are medieval coins.