Barbarous Radiate Hoard

[Marbleguy]

Your find rocked my world..

Thank you for posting that. I'm presently excavating a site in America's Mojave Desert that was an indian encampment for hundreds if not thousands of years. It may requir three months of rigorous excavation to find a single glass,indian trade bead made in the glass factories on the Island of Morono off the coast of Venice,Itay circa 1700s to 1850. I am immensely happy for your discovery.

 

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[relichunters]

Simply amazing, major congrats on the find of the century. Will wishing and hoping for my hoard.

 

[BlackX]

Congratulations, David! What a fantastic find!

 

[pepperj]

Simply put WOW! Way to go on finding the hoard and making the banner. Best of luck on the future digging at the site, truly a find of a lifetime.

 

[DavidBeard]

...Best of luck on the future digging at the site, truly a find of a lifetime.

Thanks for all the congrats folks... As for future digging, we're still under 3ft of snow!
Thought you'd like to see some pics of where I live, Beautiful in the snow but everything comes to a standstill - we even get cut off from the rest of civilization:

 

[Born Free]

UN-believable!! Find of many lifetimes combined. Congratulations!
And again I say to you English metal detectorists: don't you feel sorry for us here in the US? We find something 100 years old and wet our pants. Soooo jealous...


Born Free

 

[Nana40]

Just amazing what you've found! Many congrats to ya!!!

Nana

 

[olekyground]

Thats an amazing discovery!! CONGRATS!!

-HITT

 

[jersey devl]

Looking forward to seeing the total! Very well done David, HUGE CONGRATS!

 

[dogpound]

awesome discovery, thats just amazing. congrats!!

 

[wilkere]

Great finds! I wish we could work with the our goverment as easily in regards to treasure hunting as they do in England.

I got to get over to the old country someday!
Semper Fi,
Bob
http://www.okinawarelics.com

 

[Baggins]

Way to go! I can't wait to see what else will be uncovered!
Baggins

 

[Justice70]

Man, that is one whale of a find.,..Congrats

 

[PEles]

Re: Wow what a find congratulations!

I'm a relic hunter in South Carolina and I'd like to congratulate you on such an awsome find Talk about digging up some history, holy crapp! You'll always remember that site won't you

Laszlo

 

[spitfire55]

 

[NGE]

BANNER

 

[NGE]

american Ar-keelhaul-ogists would not allow snow to stop them, they would set up a "tent city" around the site and work all winter to get their greedy paws on everything, then put it all in their basement archives, never too see the light of day again. I am glad about the system y'all have on the other side of the pond, everyone will have the opportunity to see the great history you have uncovered! Once again, AWESOME and Banner vote from me..........NGE

 

[ivan salis]

finds like that are why we hunt . -- kudos

 

[JHinPA]

Congrats on your find-of-a-lifetime! But I was curious about the land owner's thoughts on all this. He was kind enough to give permission, and now has a small army of people trooping back and forth through his property. Does he mind at all? We he be compensated for his troubles? I was wondering if he was sorry that he gave the "OK", or has he taken delight in all of this? Thanks for sharing with us - JHinPA

 

[CRUSADER]

american Ar-keelhaul-ogists would not allow snow to stop them, they would set up a "tent city" around the site and work all winter to get their greedy paws on everything, then put it all in their basement archives, never too see the light of day again. I am glad about the system y'all have on the other side of the pond, everyone will have the opportunity to see the great history you have uncovered! Once again, AWESOME and Banner vote from me..........NGE

not as black & white as that. Many Museum finds, in fact probably about 70% never see the light of day & are stored away for no-one to see. Depends on lots of factors, but he may get most of it back, or if they keep it, they may split it to different Museums. Hopefully in this case it may go local & get displayed & properly catalogued as although not a very valueable (£££) hoard it is important in terms of what it can tell us about these under studied imitations. It will in fact be hugely valuable as a resource for future comparison