Featured Scotland's largest ever treasure hoard found.

I bet you he was excited. It didn't say how much he would get for his find.

 

Excellent. I'm thrilled for him then. Encourages people to report finds.

 

Gotta love a good hoard! His share will be a nice chunk.

 

Wow,interesting story. Thanks for posting. Nice to hear that this still ‘happens’

 

I found a quarter by a parking meter yesterday.

 

Ha ha,you are going to have to build that hoard. Work hard and stay positive.

 

So jealous of European detectorists. Any given day they could find something truly old, amazing, and important. Endless history there.

I didn’t go out as much this year as I did the last couple years. The only really neat thing I can think of that I found this year was an early 20th century sterling silver athletic medal that is about the size of a half dollar but thicker. Made by a smaller Boston silversmith. I was working in a pretty “ghetto” area that I’m sure was quite wealthy and prosperous back in the day, and I had some time to kill. Remembered passing what looked like an old fair grounds kind of in the middle of the now dirty city. Sure enough it was a massive grass covered defunct fair grounds that was open to the public but little used. Got out of my work van and detected in either direction of the van one hundreds yards or so and maybe twenty or thirty yards up from it. Nothing at all of note. I had a feeling there had to be something there though. It was getting dark and you could tell possible trouble was starting to roll through and park up in secluded areas of the grounds and then turning the lights off. I figured between that and a local cop wondering what I was doing with a big shovel in the dark I better call it quits. On the way back to my vehicle I always keep swinging the machine. I swing it quicker and skip a lot of ground but always keep it swinging basically until I hit my vehicle. I often find the best things on the way back to the car. This time in front of the door to the van by a yard or two at most I hit that sweet silver signal. I probably could have leaned the machine into the door from how close it was. So odd that of every place to park on that grounds I parked my door right in front of the spot that silver medal had likely been lying for over 100 years. I don’t know exactly what it is but I sometimes have a hard time believing those things are a coincidence. They probably are but hard to believe sometimes.

That hoard is ridiculous. I sometimes get sad about dumbbells that don’t respect the stuff or care about history digging up things that are probably better left alone. It’s great this found its way to the authorities. It would be hard not to keep a pocketful but it’s nice he didn’t sell it all for peanuts online without regard to where it came from. It would have been easy to do that and I’m sure it’s happened.

 

Cool story!

 

As davey says, our laws are constructed to encourage finds to be declared. And the Portable Antiquities Service are really useful for identifying pretty well anything. For free.

 

Do you get to keep it?

 

Oh yes. I didn't report it. Shame on me.

 

Don't worry, I won't tell.

 

Re UK Treasures Act-am i correct the finder gets 1/2 of fair market value ? In the US I beleive the law is-'don't touch,pay fine,go jail'. Well at least,in our country where each man,woman and baby average abt 50 guns each-i don't think they shoot you.

 

Since Covid,amateur Scottish detectologists have been busy-'The volume of finds in the past couple of years is so huge that Scotland's national Treasure Trove Unit has required additional staff.'

 

IIRC if it's your land it's your stuff. If it's Native American and you're best off reporting it, unless it's one of the ubiquitous arrowheads they used to find everywhere here. New England doesn't have much in the way of Native stuff to find, unless you mean old firepits and post holes. They didn't leave much behind.