Metal Detecting finds?

[chopperpete]

One of the best on the market is the Mine Lab range. Spoke to a chap on Woolacombe beach with one , cost him over £2000...but told me he found a gold ring with it, and sold it for £900...the more expensive ones can tell you if its gold/silver or scrap to quite deep depths.....but like any hobby start with something cheaper and see how you get on...

 

Detectorist ‘finds £3 million treasure hoard, gives landowner three …

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A metal detectorist who dug up £3m worth of ancient buried treasure only handed over three “not particularly valuable” coins to the owner of the land where it was found, a...

 

[Billhook]

4 hours ago, Stubby said:

I found that fascinating  , then after a while I wondered how I would feel about my ancestors being dug out of their graves and messed with . Difficult one .  

Indeed you have hit the nail on the head.  A difficult one.  Certainly I would have a lot of reservations about doing a dig in a foreign land, say India or Australia with ancient aboriginal sites.  So that is one aspect,not to upset the local population.

The other aspect is respect and would I mind having my body exhumed in 1500 years if it was treated with respect and was done to discover something about the way I lived and perhaps might give some useful knowledge.  So the answer to that is that I would not mind.  In the same way leaving your body to medical science is fine as long as it does not become part of some drunken medical student party with my body parts being thrown around for a laugh

 

The archaeologists took these graves very seriously and the students were not allowed to give the skeletons nicknames and respect had to be shown at all times.  The bones were carefully labelled and packaged and have undergone analysis at Sheffield.  They discovered much from some of these new methods such a strontium isotope testing where it was found that one of the women was brought up in Kent.  The conclusion was that there was a lot of coastal shipping traffic from the Baltic, (one woman had over 500 amber beads in a necklace, the beads coming from the Baltic)  they probably hugged the coastline down to Calais and came across and then up the East coast of England.

 

In the first dig I was asked if I minded if they brought some American Veterans from the wars in Afghanistan who were  traumatised.  I thought that it was a very odd request as troops that may have witnessed their best friend blown to pieces by a roadside mine you would think the last thing they would want to do is deal with skeletons.  They came to the dig with their heads down, I think they had retreated into themselves and tried to shut out their memories with a bit of help from the bottle and stronger.  However working with the team on a perfect site was very calm and their was a lot of good socialising in the evening at the pub and after two weeks they were very different people.

 

The skeletons are certainly my own grandparents (times about 50 greats!) and probably those of my Danish wife and they will be returned to the beech trees with a ceremony when the research if finished.  I have not had any bad feelings at all, in fact very good feelings that their lives have been respected and that they can show us a thing or two.  Firstly the equality of the sexes seems to have been very different even to today.  The women were more like the queen bee and in charge.  The men were the drones, the foragers the protectors.  I would think that the women maintained control by controlling who married who. To make a 12 year old girl pregnant in those days was a death sentence so I think arranged marriages were the result

Indeed there was a young woman cradling her child in one  grave which brought a lot of tears to the eyes

 

There is a lot of comfort for me too.  I have been to America, Australia, New Zealand , South Africa and Zimbabwe and in each country on the radio there were indigenous people demanding their lands back. It meant that the settlers, even after five or six generations on the same land were left feeling very vulnerable

Here I know I am living where my ancestors lived going back a long way.  The footprints at Happisburgh, just on the other side of the Wash not far from here were 850,000 years old.

Happisburgh footprints - Wikipedia

EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG

 

[openspaceman]

6 minutes ago, Billhook said:

In the same way leaving your body to medical science is fine as long as it does not become part of some drunken medical student party with my body parts being thrown around for a laugh

I can't say it would make much difference to me but chances are I'll be burned anyway.

 

Back in the day I was regaled with stories of bits of fat being flicked at other meds in the morgue/lab.

 

 

[Billhook]

3 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

I can't say it would make much difference to me but chances are I'll be burned anyway.

 

Back in the day I was regaled with stories of bits of fat being flicked at other meds in the morgue/lab.

 

 

I heard a lot of those stories too, and worse.........

[Stubby]

They can have any bits of me that might be of use to anyone . Then burn the rest .

[openspaceman]

45 minutes ago, Stubby said:

They can have any bits of me that might be of use to anyone . Then burn the rest .

Now or later?

[Stubby]

Just now, openspaceman said:

Now or later?

I would rather be Hovis first if thats ok ..?

[Paul Cleaver]

6 hours ago, Billhook said:

Indeed you have hit the nail on the head.  A difficult one.  Certainly I would have a lot of reservations about doing a dig in a foreign land, say India or Australia with ancient aboriginal sites.  So that is one aspect,not to upset the local population.

The other aspect is respect and would I mind having my body exhumed in 1500 years if it was treated with respect and was done to discover something about the way I lived and perhaps might give some useful knowledge.  So the answer to that is that I would not mind.  In the same way leaving your body to medical science is fine as long as it does not become part of some drunken medical student party with my body parts being thrown around for a laugh

 

The archaeologists took these graves very seriously and the students were not allowed to give the skeletons nicknames and respect had to be shown at all times.  The bones were carefully labelled and packaged and have undergone analysis at Sheffield.  They discovered much from some of these new methods such a strontium isotope testing where it was found that one of the women was brought up in Kent.  The conclusion was that there was a lot of coastal shipping traffic from the Baltic, (one woman had over 500 amber beads in a necklace, the beads coming from the Baltic)  they probably hugged the coastline down to Calais and came across and then up the East coast of England.

 

In the first dig I was asked if I minded if they brought some American Veterans from the wars in Afghanistan who were  traumatised.  I thought that it was a very odd request as troops that may have witnessed their best friend blown to pieces by a roadside mine you would think the last thing they would want to do is deal with skeletons.  They came to the dig with their heads down, I think they had retreated into themselves and tried to shut out their memories with a bit of help from the bottle and stronger.  However working with the team on a perfect site was very calm and their was a lot of good socialising in the evening at the pub and after two weeks they were very different people.

 

The skeletons are certainly my own grandparents (times about 50 greats!) and probably those of my Danish wife and they will be returned to the beech trees with a ceremony when the research if finished.  I have not had any bad feelings at all, in fact very good feelings that their lives have been respected and that they can show us a thing or two.  Firstly the equality of the sexes seems to have been very different even to today.  The women were more like the queen bee and in charge.  The men were the drones, the foragers the protectors.  I would think that the women maintained control by controlling who married who. To make a 12 year old girl pregnant in those days was a death sentence so I think arranged marriages were the result

Indeed there was a young woman cradling her child in one  grave which brought a lot of tears to the eyes

 

There is a lot of comfort for me too.  I have been to America, Australia, New Zealand , South Africa and Zimbabwe and in each country on the radio there were indigenous people demanding their lands back. It meant that the settlers, even after five or six generations on the same land were left feeling very vulnerable

Here I know I am living where my ancestors lived going back a long way.  The footprints at Happisburgh, just on the other side of the Wash not far from here were 850,000 years old.

Happisburgh footprints - Wikipedia

EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG

 

Fascinating Stubby

[eggsarascal]

14 hours ago, Stubby said:

Not much ploughing done round here now .  its all done with a " scratch it " drill direct into the stubble .

I would say that more are ploughed in still around here, it's pretty much only the fields that Rape is going on get direct drilled.

Edited August 15, 2020 by eggsarascal

[Billhook]

4 hours ago, Stubby said:

They can have any bits of me that might be of use to anyone . Then burn the rest .

Would you need to be dried to below 20%?