Published by North West Evening Mail, Wednesday, 16 January 2013 A NEW documentary featuring graphic re-enactments is set to transport viewers back to the times when marauding Vikings ruled the Furness peninsula. The short film will form a key part of the highly-anticipated Viking gallery when it officially launches at the Dock Museum in Barrow next…
Published by Visit Fylde Coast.com, Sunday 20th January 2013. James had got into conversation with us following a discussion on Facebook about the petrified forest that can be seen on Cleveleys beach. He’s obviously got a fascinating hobby, so as we’re fascinated in everybody and everything, we persuaded James to tell us more. If anyone out there also…
Published by EADT, Monday 21st January, 2013 Gareth Johns, 34, lost the ring in the St Elizabeth Hospice car park, in Ipswich, but after an appeal a couple of people armed with metal detectors ventured out into the cold. Ian Roberts, 81, of Quebec Drive, Kesgrave, and Gerry Keeler, 77, of Lulworth Avenue, Ipswich, found…
Published by This is Leicestershire, Monday January 14th, 2013 A 2,000-year-old ceremonial cavalry helmet and other treasures are to go on show at their new temporary home in March. The star exhibits from the Hallaton Treasure will be displayed at Snibston Discovery Museum, in Coalville, while their permanent home in Harborough Museum has a major…
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Published by Crewe Guardian, written by Matthew Taylor, Wednesday 16th January 2013 CREWE and Nantwich Metal Detecting Society (CNMDS) led searches that have discovered a treasure trove of medieval artefacts on Cheshire Wildlife Trust land. The society found a bronze age ‘Palstave’ axe, thought to date from the early-middle Bronze Age of 1500-1400 BC, at Bickley Hall…
Published by ITV.com, Tuesday 18th December 2012 Around 90 new pieces of gold and silver, thought to belong to the Staffordshire Hoard have been discovered. Archeologists made the find in the same field where the 3,500 pieces of the Hoard were unearthed in 2009. Among the new pieces are what is believed to be parts…
Published by Worcester News, written by Sarah Taylor, Tuesday 27th November 2012 A HOARD of Roman coins discovered in Worcestershire will stay in the county after Museums Worcestershire raised £9,000 in an appeal to secure the find in the county where it was discovered. The collection of about 4,000 coins, found on Bredon Hill in June…
Monday, December 31, 2012 FOUR gold items of Anglo-Saxon jewellery were uncovered by a metal detectorist. Lincolnshire Central Coroner Stuart Fisher, officially declared the items found by Colin O’Neill as treasure at an inquest. The items were all found in the Alford area on farmland in October last year and could have originally been from…
Published by Mail Online, written by Emma Reynolds & Neil Sears, Friday 28th December, 2012 When he was given a metal detector for Christmas, seven-year-old Sonny Carter hoped to find buried treasure. He tried it out on Boxing Day – and within 15 minutes the machine began bleeping. Sonny found a heavy metal object caked…