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Housewife finds £250,000 treasure with metal detector

telegraph.co.uk — A housewife has discovered a 15th-century gold treasure valued at £250,000 with a metal detector.

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  • MothBoy, on 06/25/2009, -0/+25Article with pics.
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1195298/Th ...
  • lpse2000, on 06/25/2009, -7/+31250,000 pounds! That's so heavy - how will she get it out of the ground?
  • johnn11238, on 06/25/2009, -0/+22Yeah, must really suck to take a six-hour walk every week with somebody that cares about you.
  • mga911, on 06/25/2009, -2/+17no picture?
  • bigpappapunk, on 06/25/2009, -1/+16*budum pshhhh*
  • MothBoy, on 06/25/2009, -1/+12No pic?

    Sounds like a Monty Python skit anyway:

    "Ms. Hannaby from Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire"
  • zdw216, on 06/25/2009, -0/+7I always laugh at those people with metal detectors on the beach. Not anymore. Touche to you Ms. Hannaby..
  • ZOMGitsRadimus, on 06/25/2009, -0/+6So apparently those late night commercials for metal detectors didn't lie... brb, getting my credit card.
  • ShadowFusion, on 06/25/2009, -0/+66 hours every sunday
    52 sundays a year
    7 years
    2184 hours of searching
    £250,000 payoff
    = £114.46 an hour
    1£ = $1.63
    = $186.57 an hour
    Grand Total: $58,032 annual salary to walk around in a field for a few hours every Sunday afternoon
  • pegothejerk, on 06/25/2009, -0/+5They didn't lie, they just didn't give you the odds. Better to go buy a lotto ticket or wait for a metal rich meteorite to land in front of you.
  • sameer768, on 06/25/2009, -2/+7''As one of only three of its kind to have survived, the find could be worth even more than £250,000, and its engraving is being compared to that of the Middleham Jewel, which sold at auction for £1.3million in 1986 and was later resold to the Yorkshire Museum for £2.5million.''


    Damn.
  • inactive, on 06/25/2009, -4/+8Metal detecting is quite popular in countries that have history, not much point in north america is there.
  • inactive, on 06/25/2009, -0/+4Burn!
  • inactive, on 06/25/2009, -0/+3Man, the only thing I ever found with a metal detector were goddamn soda can tabs. WTF?
  • shillabus, on 06/25/2009, -0/+3whoosh
  • inactive, on 06/25/2009, -0/+3actually its about the same as an american lottery. they have well defined rules.
  • inactive, on 06/25/2009, -0/+3Now that is a woman who enjoys her hobby.
  • Chappync, on 06/26/2009, -0/+2Here yah go http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp ...
  • sTiVo, on 06/25/2009, -0/+2I disagree. I bet you have a better chance of recovering your investment with a metal detector than with a lotto ticket. Heck, its kind of fun anyway, so you are indeed getting something. I borrowed one from a friend to find the survey markers on my property and couldn't help walking around my house seeing what we could find. My kids and I had a blast finding coins (nothing too value, mind you) and other relics from when my house was a farm house.
  • alwaysnomadic, on 06/25/2009, -3/+5I hope I don't have to meet you
  • inactive, on 06/25/2009, -0/+2I'm getting me a metal detector!
  • anixmander, on 06/25/2009, -0/+2Don't tell me ahhell, you didn't read the articles, did you?

    Her find is covered by laws already on the books there.
  • Jarsht, on 06/25/2009, -0/+1Leaves husband and has a reality tv contest for hiring her new butler. Hilarity ensues.
  • treas, on 06/25/2009, -0/+1Why is it that the most unbelievable stories are always in the Telegraph?
  • thepeacemaker, on 06/25/2009, -0/+1Nothing in my entire friggin city (houston) is more than 100 years old <sigh>.
  • inactive, on 06/25/2009, -0/+1Now she just has to find a buyer that'll pay 250,000.
  • nothing4me, on 06/25/2009, -0/+1Why did he get dugg down? I mean, he was trying to put it into perspective.
  • banski, on 06/25/2009, -1/+2Generally the landowner gets 50%, and if its gold/silver the British museum gets to compulsory purchase it at market value
  • Tgg161, on 06/25/2009, -0/+1Anyone who wants to buy a metal detector should read this awesome Slate article:

    "Metal Detecting: The World's Worst Hobby"
    http://www.slate.com/id/2086909/
  • Chappync, on 06/26/2009, -0/+1here yah go http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp ...
  • inactive, on 06/25/2009, -1/+2Specially here
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Knox
  • inactive, on 06/25/2009, -3/+3booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
  • proverbialRock, on 10/20/2009, -0/+0False alarm. Item is of dubious value, and only auctioned for £38,000, below the minimum.
    http://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2009/07/detectori ...

  • mikemehak, on 06/25/2009, -1/+1I was going to suggest that her husband be very happy.

    Because
    a) she just found a $250,000 treasure
    b) she's not off sleeping around while he's at work.

    Then I saw the article with her pics. There is no way that man can be happy.
  • wassim2k, on 06/25/2009, -1/+1In other news, the sale of metal detectors go through the roof.

    Buy one here: http://www.metaldetectors.com/
  • surfergirlsc, on 06/25/2009, -0/+0I need a metal detector.
  • LuckyScofield, on 06/25/2009, -2/+1As soon as I read this, i thought that is all a cover story. In a month she will be arrested from stealing from someones attic
  • Pinkertinkle, on 06/25/2009, -9/+8What's she doing outta the kitchen?
  • ahhell, on 06/25/2009, -6/+1And I bet the government takes it all and she gets nothing.
  • inactive, on 06/25/2009, -10/+5No picture, no digg.
  • AraleNorimaki, on 06/25/2009, -8/+1Once my kids leave the house, I'll finally be able to do what every man is supposed to. I can watch TV. I can... well, I don't know but it doesn't matter. It's still better than having a screaming, crapping, money-sucking little vampire bobsledding me to the graveyard. God I feel good.
  • robertworkman, on 06/25/2009, -14/+7buried for no pic
  • JohnEHubertz, on 06/25/2009, -10/+2It is tiny - the size of a postage stamp.

    It is a reliquary pendant of the Holy Trinity - Google it and you;ll see a pic on other news stories.
  • Whitecoolie, on 06/25/2009, -9/+1Hopefully this happens to me too...
  • bigpappapunk, on 06/25/2009, -16/+3"Mrs Hannaby, 57, from Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, made the discovery while out on one of her regular six-hour Sunday detecting walks with her son Michael, a 33 year-old wood carver."

    Sounds like someone has a sad sad life
  • inactive, on 06/25/2009, -15/+1*****!
  • CrazedLeper, on 06/25/2009, -17/+2She married a house? The guy with the gimp leg?

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