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- Cancerous, on 11/20/2008, -1/+67Moral of the story:
Digging is awesome. - gorkha, on 11/19/2008, -0/+34This really needs to happen to me.
- Scopitone, on 11/20/2008, -2/+30Crom has smiled upon this man.
- pe5t1lence, on 11/20/2008, -0/+22Stupid New America... we don't have enough history to find anything cool like that here :'(
- rikwakefield, on 11/20/2008, -1/+15Hello,
I just sent the payment for the item. I also included an estimated cost of shipping to Nigeria for my son company. Please let me know when you get a notification from ebay that Slong Girl sent you a payment. Send me the tracking number via auspost as soon as you ship the item. I am having difficulties getting across to my son that manage her father company over there. I gave his address to paypal for verification and it has been confirmed so it should be in the payment notification.
His correct mailing address again is:
Atolagbe Agbede
03 Ijaiye Road
Opp Mobil Filling Station
Ogba, Ikeja, Lagos
Nigeria 23401
Thanks and I hope to read from you as soon as possible cos I want this to get to him at the shortest period of time. - kdamp, on 11/20/2008, -0/+13Metal detectors don't rely on magnetism, th....well, here:
http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=how+do+metal+d ... - Hockey37, on 11/20/2008, -1/+9. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _________
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: : : : : : :¯’’~~~~~~’’’ : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : | : : : : : : : : : - duewydo, on 11/20/2008, -0/+8It is actually very beautiful, very intricate. My hat is off to him for finding it.
- Piontek, on 11/20/2008, -0/+7so wood choppers are called tree surgeons now? what's next, garbagemen as pollution officers?
- gametavern, on 11/20/2008, -0/+6Better that it be left buried and no one finds it. ...right?
- Murdats, on 11/20/2008, -2/+7this is what, the third or fourth on in an hour?
dailymail would have to be loving digg, we must be single-handedly keeping them profitable. - hansk, on 11/20/2008, -0/+5Crom! Never before have i prayed to you, I do not have the tongue for it! But now I ask but one thing: Grant me fabulous wealth!
And if you do not listen, ZEN TO HELL WIFF YOU! - jerrod73, on 11/20/2008, -0/+5FTA
"...secret location near Newark.." then later "Trinity College, Cambridge, which owns the land." - Catchpen, on 11/20/2008, -0/+4~`~-Great Ebayer - Will do business again! AAAAAAAAA++++++++++++++++-~`~
- Finalreminder, on 11/20/2008, -7/+11Should of kept his gob shut. Find anything like that in England and the Queen gets dibs.
Sod off to America, get it appraised and sell it. £350,000 all your money.
England, you get a kitchen and ***** car lol! - deviouskoopa, on 11/20/2008, -1/+5in before Ackbar...
- askantik, on 11/20/2008, -0/+3Did I say that? I don't think that I did.
My point is that if a team of archaeologists had dug it up, they might have found more stuff. The context of artifacts is just as important (if not more so) as the artifacts themselves. I'd bet money that this guy just dug randomly to find whatever his detector was beeping at. He could have destroyed other things that have been there. I am not harping on this guy in particular, I'm just saying that artifact collectors who pick up whatever they find have damaged a lot of archaeological sites that COULD have had much more information to offer were they left intact.
Digg me down all you want, and think that I'm an *****, but almost all archaeologists would agree. - rdwinder, on 11/20/2008, -0/+3DONT DO IT, ITS A SCAM!!!!!
- boneit, on 11/20/2008, -0/+3No idea why you're getting buried. Major finds have to be reported to the Treasury who will take half the value upon sale, assuming no one comes forth to claim it.
I used to enjoy it for a while. Spent WWII ammo and ration cartons were all I ever found, other than uber amounts of can ring-pulls, the kind you could ping. - bubba9999, on 11/20/2008, -0/+3"CWOM!"
- TTURabble, on 11/20/2008, -0/+3I think the most interesting part about finding ancient jewelry and fashion is that it really doesn't look that much different than stuff you might find in a modern jewelry store. This piece in particular, as the braided metal loop is still popular for wristbands and such. Kind of reminds me that even though we are living in the "future," there are things that never change.
- shandromand, on 11/20/2008, -0/+2Um, hello? Just because Native Americans were largely naturalists doesn't mean you can't find something equally cool. Especially the farther south you go. Lets not forget that Pre-Columbian culture existed over here just as long as pre-Roman did over there. There's tons of history here, if you know where to look.
- gametavern, on 11/20/2008, -2/+4I thought gold wasn't magnetic. How do detectors ...detect that stuff?
- zadadka, on 11/20/2008, -0/+2True....and then in 4-6 months time, there'll be a glut of really good (and more really bad) metal detectors being sold on eBay.
- intekra, on 11/20/2008, -1/+3I'd tell the queen to shove it.
- Tynan, on 11/20/2008, -0/+2The interesting part about this article was the "tree surgeon" job title.
I sense a Photoshop contest. What the hell is a tree surgeon? - Cancerous, on 11/20/2008, -0/+2Your the inspector over the mine?
- SillyRabbits, on 11/20/2008, -1/+3"Should of kept his gob shut"
It's illegal not to report the find. Selling it on the black market wouldn't bring full price. The system in England works well. The finder wins, the land owner wins, the historians win. Everybody wins. It's idiotic to destroy history by trying to secretly sell it under the table. When everything is said and done, the sale of a well publicized and legal find will net the discover more than an "under the table" deal. - Heiminator, on 11/20/2008, -0/+2i think i need to watch again conan asap :-)
- hansk, on 11/20/2008, -0/+2i noticed that too, not too bright are they?
- zadadka, on 11/20/2008, -0/+2You're concern regarding the site "disturbance" isn't wrong, but there's a bigger picture to consider.
The main reason that Trove must be declared to the Crown in the UK is so that by the process of Lawful Inquest, a rightful owner may be determined.
(The Crown's medieval practice of taking half the value, is a topic for another day)
So, to return to your point, the inquest process also triggers the archaeological community to investigate the site of the find, and perhaps survey and dig if deemed appropriate...was it just accidentally dropped here way back then, or are we standing at an important settlement, and the find and the site then prove to be of special historical significance?
None of which would have happened if the find had not been made.... or declared, for that matter. - L4mb, on 11/20/2008, -0/+2d00d that thing is 2k years old. Only thing here at that time was Native Americans
- CharlesSaint, on 11/20/2008, -0/+2Twice today I've read dailymail.co.uk stories and both times I've been lured away from the story by the picture for this story (on the right side of the page).
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1087616/ ... - Finalreminder, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1In 5 billion years that bracelet, the Pyramids, the mummies, Stonehenge, all that junk in the museums will be dust floating around a red giant.
Live for the now because one day the stars are all gonna wink out and the curtain will fall.
Finders keepers. They lost it, I find it, it's mine and no-one has a right to a piece of what's mine for free. - weaksnyc, on 08/14/2009, -0/+1sanitation officers.
- creole, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1It's science fiction my friend...and of the top notch variety.
- SemperFly, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1What the hell is a tree surgeon?
- personalj, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1It wasn't lightning, they make waterproof covers for them.
- exgiexpcv, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1I read the title and thought neckband, which prompted a degree of curiosity. Then I see it's a torc, and I'm gushing at the skill with which it was created. *Gorgeous*!
- elementop, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1This is not the metal detector you are looking for. Move along.
- TheNakedChef, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1Because it always rains in England.
- hansk, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1whats yer problem?!
- brianhood, on 11/20/2008, -1/+2cry about it bitch
i thought it was a good read - askantik, on 11/22/2008, -0/+1"but IF IF IF IF IF the amateur is conscientious." A guy in my town dug up a mammoth tusk in his backyard and he ended up breaking it in half before he called the paleontology department from the local university. One of my professors says that people bring ***** to him all the time asking him to date it. So my point is that many, and maybe even most, of these amateurs aren't necessarily being *****-- they just don't know any better.
- hansk, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1same, i really wanna retire
- fearsofgun, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1why was he using a metal detector while it was raining?
- inajeep, on 11/20/2008, -1/+2Assuming you live in a part of the world that has a rich history you may be out of luck. In addition, that phrasing alone means that you won't go out and buy a metal detector and a book on history and start looking. You want someone to knock on your door in the middle of the day and hand you a rare historical trinket or how about hand you a stack of cash instead. How about direct deposit?
- elementop, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1Is it necessarily one *or* the other?
- rpong1981, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1"'It was about two foot four inches down and when I got within four inches I decided to use my hand. ... "
I thought they metric system? Shouldn't it be "It was about 1 meter down..." am I wrong? - elementop, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1@askantik: So Joe Sixpack is out playing with his metal detector and hears a beep. At this point, he has no idea if it's a coin someone dropped, a pop top lid, a bullet from WWII or a priceless artifact. Would you prefer for everyone who ever gets a "hit" from a metal detector call a professional archaeologist to do a "real" excavation? What about all of the information that is left intact once an amateur finds and reports a completely unknown site so that the professional archaeologists can come study it? Yeah, there will be some damage to the site from the initial dig, but if the amateur is conscientious and leaves it alone once he realizes what he has found, even the professionals gain from the knowledge of a new site to excavate.
Sounds to me like you are just jealous that an untrained amateur found something cool. -
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