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Island metal detectorist unearths 'the find of a lifetime'
On one special morning, club members visited an Isle of Wight field which had not been touched by a metal detector for several years.
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Or .... could it be donated to a museum 🤔 .
Our history, for future generations, not sold off to the highest bidder & lost!
Isle of Wight detectorist unearths 'the find of a lifetime'
“Either one of us will keep it, or it will have to go to auction"
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Our history, for future generations, not sold off to the highest bidder & lost!
Isle of Wight detectorist unearths 'the find of a lifetime'
“Either one of us will keep it, or it will have to go to auction"
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"Bexhill remembers its war dead. The service at the Memorial on Sunday afternoon. Inset: The Mayor (Earl De La Warr) placing the town's tribute." Bexhill Observer 11.11.1933. #Bexhill #Sussex #History #1930s #WarMemorial
November 11, 2025 at 9:45 AM
"Bexhill remembers its war dead. The service at the Memorial on Sunday afternoon. Inset: The Mayor (Earl De La Warr) placing the town's tribute." Bexhill Observer 11.11.1933. #Bexhill #Sussex #History #1930s #WarMemorial
Or .... could it be donated to a museum 🤔 .
Our history, for future generations, not sold off to the highest bidder & lost!
Isle of Wight detectorist unearths 'the find of a lifetime'
“Either one of us will keep it, or it will have to go to auction"
share.google/UpKyAzIurksY...
Our history, for future generations, not sold off to the highest bidder & lost!
Isle of Wight detectorist unearths 'the find of a lifetime'
“Either one of us will keep it, or it will have to go to auction"
share.google/UpKyAzIurksY...
Island metal detectorist unearths 'the find of a lifetime'
On one special morning, club members visited an Isle of Wight field which had not been touched by a metal detector for several years.
share.google
November 11, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Or .... could it be donated to a museum 🤔 .
Our history, for future generations, not sold off to the highest bidder & lost!
Isle of Wight detectorist unearths 'the find of a lifetime'
“Either one of us will keep it, or it will have to go to auction"
share.google/UpKyAzIurksY...
Our history, for future generations, not sold off to the highest bidder & lost!
Isle of Wight detectorist unearths 'the find of a lifetime'
“Either one of us will keep it, or it will have to go to auction"
share.google/UpKyAzIurksY...
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Every museum object is important but these are the cultural soul of Amgueddfa Cymru / National Museum of Wales. A representation of the beating heart of a nation.
Search continues for Bronze Age artefacts stolen from St Fagans - BBC News share.google/9qJAUhEXkXo6...
Search continues for Bronze Age artefacts stolen from St Fagans - BBC News share.google/9qJAUhEXkXo6...
Search continues for Bronze Age artefacts stolen from St Fagans - BBC News
Two men have been charged with burglary, but "invaluable" items are still missing from St Fagans collection.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Every museum object is important but these are the cultural soul of Amgueddfa Cymru / National Museum of Wales. A representation of the beating heart of a nation.
Search continues for Bronze Age artefacts stolen from St Fagans - BBC News share.google/9qJAUhEXkXo6...
Search continues for Bronze Age artefacts stolen from St Fagans - BBC News share.google/9qJAUhEXkXo6...
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The latest in a series of papers that redefine and, in this case, corrects what we think about the evidence for early wooden weapons.
@annemiekemilks.bsky.social bringscexcelkebce in scientific method and research partners to the work. The results speak for themselves. 🦣🏺
@annemiekemilks.bsky.social bringscexcelkebce in scientific method and research partners to the work. The results speak for themselves. 🦣🏺
Latest paper: Boxgrove is a key European site dating to 480,000 years ago. At GTP17, hominins knapped handaxes and then butchered an adult female horse. A fragment of the horse's scapula appeared to have evidence of impact from a wooden spear.....
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November 10, 2025 at 10:14 AM
The latest in a series of papers that redefine and, in this case, corrects what we think about the evidence for early wooden weapons.
@annemiekemilks.bsky.social bringscexcelkebce in scientific method and research partners to the work. The results speak for themselves. 🦣🏺
@annemiekemilks.bsky.social bringscexcelkebce in scientific method and research partners to the work. The results speak for themselves. 🦣🏺
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A guest blog, which adds more detail to the narrative of detecting in England & Wales.
Thank you to my anonymous colleague for writing this important piece & for allowing me to host it on the Big Book of Torcs! 😊
#Archaeology #Detecting #Torcs #gold #Treasure
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Thank you to my anonymous colleague for writing this important piece & for allowing me to host it on the Big Book of Torcs! 😊
#Archaeology #Detecting #Torcs #gold #Treasure
bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/11/08/w...
“Who Pays for the Hobby?”: Metal Detecting in England and Wales
[A download/print PDF version can be found at the end of the paper] This is a first for The Big Book of Torcs. Today, I open up BBoT to a guest blog, written by a friend and archaeological colleagu…
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November 8, 2025 at 6:32 AM
A guest blog, which adds more detail to the narrative of detecting in England & Wales.
Thank you to my anonymous colleague for writing this important piece & for allowing me to host it on the Big Book of Torcs! 😊
#Archaeology #Detecting #Torcs #gold #Treasure
bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/11/08/w...
Thank you to my anonymous colleague for writing this important piece & for allowing me to host it on the Big Book of Torcs! 😊
#Archaeology #Detecting #Torcs #gold #Treasure
bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/11/08/w...
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"Roman Remains Near Bexhill.
Mr. B. H. Lucas's Discoveries at Crowhurst Park.
Interesting Relics Of Hadrian Times.
#Roman remains in the form of pottery and shards, which have been identified as belonging to the second century, have been excavated..." #Bexhill Observer 7.11.1936. #Archaeology #1930s
Mr. B. H. Lucas's Discoveries at Crowhurst Park.
Interesting Relics Of Hadrian Times.
#Roman remains in the form of pottery and shards, which have been identified as belonging to the second century, have been excavated..." #Bexhill Observer 7.11.1936. #Archaeology #1930s
November 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
"Roman Remains Near Bexhill.
Mr. B. H. Lucas's Discoveries at Crowhurst Park.
Interesting Relics Of Hadrian Times.
#Roman remains in the form of pottery and shards, which have been identified as belonging to the second century, have been excavated..." #Bexhill Observer 7.11.1936. #Archaeology #1930s
Mr. B. H. Lucas's Discoveries at Crowhurst Park.
Interesting Relics Of Hadrian Times.
#Roman remains in the form of pottery and shards, which have been identified as belonging to the second century, have been excavated..." #Bexhill Observer 7.11.1936. #Archaeology #1930s
UK seizes Jurassic dinosaur fossils worth £12m from Chinese money-laundering suspect
All three specimens were found in the Meilyn quarry in Wyoming “in close proximity to each other”
“I doubt that any of us will be dealing with one of these again"
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
All three specimens were found in the Meilyn quarry in Wyoming “in close proximity to each other”
“I doubt that any of us will be dealing with one of these again"
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
UK seizes £12m Jurassic dinosaur fossils from money-laundering suspect
Dinosaur skeletons were bought last year at Christie’s Jurassic Icons auction for £12.4m
www.independent.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 11:12 AM
UK seizes Jurassic dinosaur fossils worth £12m from Chinese money-laundering suspect
All three specimens were found in the Meilyn quarry in Wyoming “in close proximity to each other”
“I doubt that any of us will be dealing with one of these again"
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
All three specimens were found in the Meilyn quarry in Wyoming “in close proximity to each other”
“I doubt that any of us will be dealing with one of these again"
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
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Fascinating artifacts from early Roman Britain. Neil can take us on a wander.
#museums #museumfromhome #englishheritage mainlymuseums.com/post/1154/ri...
#museums #museumfromhome #englishheritage mainlymuseums.com/post/1154/ri...
Richborough Roman Fort
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November 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Fascinating artifacts from early Roman Britain. Neil can take us on a wander.
#museums #museumfromhome #englishheritage mainlymuseums.com/post/1154/ri...
#museums #museumfromhome #englishheritage mainlymuseums.com/post/1154/ri...
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Over the last couple of years, I have become increasingly interested in the politics of torcs, gold and 'treasure'.
If you want to read my ongoing thoughts on this, you can find everything here.
Thank you for reading... 😊
#Archaeology #Torcs #Gold #Detecting
bigbookoftorcs.com/who-owns-tor...
If you want to read my ongoing thoughts on this, you can find everything here.
Thank you for reading... 😊
#Archaeology #Torcs #Gold #Detecting
bigbookoftorcs.com/who-owns-tor...
Who ‘owns’ Torcs?
These papers look at who owns, or believes they own, our shared national heritage – be that the artefacts themselves or the research that stems from them. In these, I look at some of the issu…
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November 7, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Over the last couple of years, I have become increasingly interested in the politics of torcs, gold and 'treasure'.
If you want to read my ongoing thoughts on this, you can find everything here.
Thank you for reading... 😊
#Archaeology #Torcs #Gold #Detecting
bigbookoftorcs.com/who-owns-tor...
If you want to read my ongoing thoughts on this, you can find everything here.
Thank you for reading... 😊
#Archaeology #Torcs #Gold #Detecting
bigbookoftorcs.com/who-owns-tor...
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Mixing, mingling, moving are standard for our genus.
"New genome reveals Denisovans repeatedly interbred with Neanderthals ... also seem to have interbred with an unidentified group of ancient humans... One possibility is Homo erectus"
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"New genome reveals Denisovans repeatedly interbred with Neanderthals ... also seem to have interbred with an unidentified group of ancient humans... One possibility is Homo erectus"
www.newscientist.com/article/2502...
Denisovans may have interbred with mysterious group of ancient humans
We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of this species than we thought
www.newscientist.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Mixing, mingling, moving are standard for our genus.
"New genome reveals Denisovans repeatedly interbred with Neanderthals ... also seem to have interbred with an unidentified group of ancient humans... One possibility is Homo erectus"
www.newscientist.com/article/2502...
"New genome reveals Denisovans repeatedly interbred with Neanderthals ... also seem to have interbred with an unidentified group of ancient humans... One possibility is Homo erectus"
www.newscientist.com/article/2502...
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...and in great news - this is what £250,000 can buy you in a museum.
We could get FOURTEEN of these for one £3.5 million payout to a detectorist & landowner for their lucky Tudor Heart locket find... 🤔
#Archaeology 🏺
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We could get FOURTEEN of these for one £3.5 million payout to a detectorist & landowner for their lucky Tudor Heart locket find... 🤔
#Archaeology 🏺
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Peterborough Museum gets £250k for Bronze Age project
The two-year initiative will explore the discoveries made at Must Farm in Whittlesey.
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November 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
...and in great news - this is what £250,000 can buy you in a museum.
We could get FOURTEEN of these for one £3.5 million payout to a detectorist & landowner for their lucky Tudor Heart locket find... 🤔
#Archaeology 🏺
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
We could get FOURTEEN of these for one £3.5 million payout to a detectorist & landowner for their lucky Tudor Heart locket find... 🤔
#Archaeology 🏺
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
COULDN'T, SHOULDN'T the museum/us have had more say!
New Forest hoard, 70 coins dug up in lockdown fetch over £380k
*After no museum was in a position to acquire the coins at the time during lockdown they were returned to the family & they were allowed to sell them*
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New Forest hoard, 70 coins dug up in lockdown fetch over £380k
*After no museum was in a position to acquire the coins at the time during lockdown they were returned to the family & they were allowed to sell them*
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New Forest hoard of 70 coins dug up in lockdown fetch over £380k - BBC News
The 69 gold coins and one silver were found in a garden in Milford on Sea in April 2020.
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November 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM
COULDN'T, SHOULDN'T the museum/us have had more say!
New Forest hoard, 70 coins dug up in lockdown fetch over £380k
*After no museum was in a position to acquire the coins at the time during lockdown they were returned to the family & they were allowed to sell them*
share.google/o84ClybH1eKv...
New Forest hoard, 70 coins dug up in lockdown fetch over £380k
*After no museum was in a position to acquire the coins at the time during lockdown they were returned to the family & they were allowed to sell them*
share.google/o84ClybH1eKv...
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Can sea slugs form abstract thoughts? Do we dare to see any "purpose" in evolution? Is the subjective just a complicated form of the objective? Nikolay Kukushkin's One Hand Clapping is a bold voyage around the mysteries of the human mind, finds Thomas Lewton
Provocative book sets out to solve the hard problem of consciousness
Can sea slugs form abstract thoughts? Do we dare to see any "purpose" in evolution? Is the subjective just a complicated form of the objective? Nikolay Kukushkin's One Hand Clapping is a bold voyage around the mysteries of the human mind, finds Thomas Lewton
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November 6, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Can sea slugs form abstract thoughts? Do we dare to see any "purpose" in evolution? Is the subjective just a complicated form of the objective? Nikolay Kukushkin's One Hand Clapping is a bold voyage around the mysteries of the human mind, finds Thomas Lewton
St Mary in the Castle Church Hastings is added to Historic England's at risk register
St Mary's is "a key building in the regeneration of our town
"The best way to protect our buildings is to reuse them, turning them into places of local connection and joy
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St Mary's is "a key building in the regeneration of our town
"The best way to protect our buildings is to reuse them, turning them into places of local connection and joy
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Hastings church added to Historic England's at risk register
Historic England says the church, which dates back to the 1820s, is in need of repairs.
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November 6, 2025 at 10:44 AM
St Mary in the Castle Church Hastings is added to Historic England's at risk register
St Mary's is "a key building in the regeneration of our town
"The best way to protect our buildings is to reuse them, turning them into places of local connection and joy
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St Mary's is "a key building in the regeneration of our town
"The best way to protect our buildings is to reuse them, turning them into places of local connection and joy
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"The Dreadful Story about Harriet and the Matches."
By Heinrich Hoffmann from The English Struwwelpeter 1845.
#WyrdWednesday #Fire #1840s
By Heinrich Hoffmann from The English Struwwelpeter 1845.
#WyrdWednesday #Fire #1840s
November 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM
"The Dreadful Story about Harriet and the Matches."
By Heinrich Hoffmann from The English Struwwelpeter 1845.
#WyrdWednesday #Fire #1840s
By Heinrich Hoffmann from The English Struwwelpeter 1845.
#WyrdWednesday #Fire #1840s
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"A spokesperson said funds had to be raised by April 2026 and they needed the public's help to secure it."
AKA You give us your hard earned cash & we'll give it to two people.
BTW £3.5 million is c.100 curator salaries.
#Archaeology #Detecting
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AKA You give us your hard earned cash & we'll give it to two people.
BTW £3.5 million is c.100 curator salaries.
#Archaeology #Detecting
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article....
Museum appeal to save pendant linked to Henry VIII
The British Museum hopes to secure the pendant, found by a metal detectorist in Warwickshire.
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November 5, 2025 at 8:51 AM
"A spokesperson said funds had to be raised by April 2026 and they needed the public's help to secure it."
AKA You give us your hard earned cash & we'll give it to two people.
BTW £3.5 million is c.100 curator salaries.
#Archaeology #Detecting
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article....
AKA You give us your hard earned cash & we'll give it to two people.
BTW £3.5 million is c.100 curator salaries.
#Archaeology #Detecting
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article....
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This was #Bexhill’s first fire engine. It was purchased by the town in 1895 and was horse drawn and steam powered. It is now on display in the museum and is a popular exhibit.
November 5, 2025 at 11:03 AM
This was #Bexhill’s first fire engine. It was purchased by the town in 1895 and was horse drawn and steam powered. It is now on display in the museum and is a popular exhibit.
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Chasing the money trail on legally processed treasure cases in England & Wales reveals the eye watering public expense of owning / buying heritage that belongs to the nation from the people who found it.
As always @tessmachling.bsky.social is asking the hard but right questions
As always @tessmachling.bsky.social is asking the hard but right questions
Following on from last week's blog on Treasure 'rewards', I've been trying to dig deeper into the numbers.
Although very preliminary, what I've found does not make for happy reading...
#Archaeology 🏺 #Detecting #Treasure
bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/11/04/l...
Although very preliminary, what I've found does not make for happy reading...
#Archaeology 🏺 #Detecting #Treasure
bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/11/04/l...
Looking for Treasure…
by Tess Machling [A download/print PDF version can be found at the end of the paper] Introduction Following on from my blog last week, I have been trying to find out exactly how much is being paid …
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November 4, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Chasing the money trail on legally processed treasure cases in England & Wales reveals the eye watering public expense of owning / buying heritage that belongs to the nation from the people who found it.
As always @tessmachling.bsky.social is asking the hard but right questions
As always @tessmachling.bsky.social is asking the hard but right questions
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Palaeontologists have argued for decades over whether certain fossils are young Tyrannosaurus rex or another species entirely – now they have strong evidence that the diminutive Nanotyrannus really existed
Dinosaur skeleton settles long debate over 'tiny T. rex' fossils
Palaeontologists have argued for decades over whether certain fossils are young Tyrannosaurus rex or another species entirely – now they have strong evidence that the diminutive Nanotyrannus really existed
www.newscientist.com
November 1, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Palaeontologists have argued for decades over whether certain fossils are young Tyrannosaurus rex or another species entirely – now they have strong evidence that the diminutive Nanotyrannus really existed
Sad reading, one of our fastest declining birds and a brick to accommodate them in planning legislation is rejected.
Nature deserves its home when we encroach upon it, a brick, ill say it again.... a brick ..... WOW
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Nature deserves its home when we encroach upon it, a brick, ill say it again.... a brick ..... WOW
@rspb.bsky.social
Last night, Peers voted against Swift bricks: rejecting a simple, proven way to help one of our fastest declining birds recover. ❌
We share @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social's disappointment & frustration.
The vote came late, but with government refusing to back it, its fate was already sealed.
We share @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social's disappointment & frustration.
The vote came late, but with government refusing to back it, its fate was already sealed.
November 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Sad reading, one of our fastest declining birds and a brick to accommodate them in planning legislation is rejected.
Nature deserves its home when we encroach upon it, a brick, ill say it again.... a brick ..... WOW
@rspb.bsky.social
Nature deserves its home when we encroach upon it, a brick, ill say it again.... a brick ..... WOW
@rspb.bsky.social
History is ALL of ours, it shouldn't be about "mine & money"
All significant historic finds should be instantly state owned & automatically given to museums for EVERYONE. Not lost to public Museums who cant afford it & watch it go to private collections.
Take out the "My Precious" attitude !
All significant historic finds should be instantly state owned & automatically given to museums for EVERYONE. Not lost to public Museums who cant afford it & watch it go to private collections.
Take out the "My Precious" attitude !
"Funding came from Arts Council England, V&A Purchase Grant Fund, Leeds Philosophical & Literary Society, and the Friends of Leeds City Museums."
AKA
The detectorist and landowner were paid an undisclosed amount to hand over what should be ours...
#Archaeology 🏺
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
AKA
The detectorist and landowner were paid an undisclosed amount to hand over what should be ours...
#Archaeology 🏺
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Saxon cross discovered in Leeds field to be displayed in museum
The pendant is believed to date from the 8th Century and have been a worn by a high status person.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 2, 2025 at 11:04 AM
History is ALL of ours, it shouldn't be about "mine & money"
All significant historic finds should be instantly state owned & automatically given to museums for EVERYONE. Not lost to public Museums who cant afford it & watch it go to private collections.
Take out the "My Precious" attitude !
All significant historic finds should be instantly state owned & automatically given to museums for EVERYONE. Not lost to public Museums who cant afford it & watch it go to private collections.
Take out the "My Precious" attitude !
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November 2, 2025 at 8:32 AM