Anthony Halse, South Wales and Monmouthshire Numismatic Society: "He'll get half the money and the landowner will get the other half." [BBC] David Moss (right) and his friend Ian Nicholson spent more than six hours excavating the potsMinelab
Posted on 10/23/2025 9:08:43 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Anthony Halse, South Wales and Monmouthshire Numismatic Society: "He'll get half the money and the landowner will get the other half." [BBC] David Moss (right) and his friend Ian Nicholson spent more than six hours excavating the potsMinelab
It was a Wale of a treasure!...................
That's what they said about the Louvre and France's "crown jewels."
15,000 coins? That’s a Wale of a find!
Heh, heh!
Brits often make light of detectorists. a classic on this is”The Detectorists” on AcornTV.
Some treasurer was maybe crucified or run through for losing the cash?
Cymry all just not pun for a minute.
I met a detectorist day before yesterday at McEuen Park in Coeur d’Alene, ID. He got a reading and was in the process of digging it up. I was hiking by and asked him what he thought he had found. He wasn’t sure, but said he had a good reading.
Really nice guy — a history buff like me. He told me about some of the great finds he and his friends have made at cavalry fort sites in the west. He’s found items at the old Fort Sherman site (1878–1900) in Coeur d’Alene.
So we have a wonderful 20 minute chat. I mentioned to him about all the finds I read about in your posts. He knew about “mudlarking” on the Thames River (you now need a permit!). A buddy of his went on arranged treasure-hunting trips to the UK, made friends, and was headed over to England today to join his friends on a hunt. The guy I met doesn’t like flying, so he hasn’t got to Europe or the UK, but he knew about many of the finds I read about in your posts.
Shouldn’t be a problem, the Welshmen who pulled the Louvre job are still out of the country.
Or, he had buried it as usual for the night, then the whole Roman population had to get outta town kinda sudden like.
The first Condom was invented by the Welsh using sheep intestines
The English improved upon the idea by taking the intestines out of the sheep first................
Nice! I slightly knew a slightly shady guy who had actually grown up in Wales (hadn’t thought about this in years) and had been in a variety of different professions (ahem), usually things that could be done on the side and off the books while he and/or his wife-partner worked in regular jobs. And they moved around a lot.
He once spent a summer in Gibraltar, and paid for it by free diving near the swimmers’ raft anchored a bit offshore, during the middle of the day (good Sun angle), recovering lost Rolex watches, phones, and whatnot.
He had long been a detectorist in Britain. He told me about the “birdfoot” — when the Romans’ bridges were gone, carted off for stone, ruined, etc, the approach to the fording place was naturally downhill, and angled off the old (usually Roman-origin) roadway to get down to the crossing at a very slight incline, to avoid runaway carts and whatnot. He figured out via experience (and accident) that this near-ancient practice tended to point right to a fruitful spot to detect.
And that part of the story is the most interesting, but I can’t remember it. [blush]
Don’t leave us in suspense, what did the guy find?
Can't be too large or it would break or be too heavy to lift.
Ancient World Has Talents was one of the more popular stage shows back then.
Shhhhhhhhhhhhh! Dig all night and don’t tell anyone!
That’s brilliant figuring the downhill incline would be a good place to hunt!
We were comparing his finds in the Western US (few artifacts earlier than about 1860 — seem to have largely been brought west by Civil War veterans), the Eastern US (things dating back up to 400 years) and finds in the UK and Europe (up to 2000 or more years). Rather slim pickins out here in the West.
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