Buried Treasure
Sep. 25th, 2013 07:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloMy mother has two fields- several acres of Wealden hillside with a fence down the middle. In past years they've held sheep but there aren't any there at the moment. Just rabbits. I was thinking this afternoon how I'd like to go over them with a metal detector and find all the hoards of Roman coins and Viking hack silber that are bound to be buried there. There's a marshy area with a stream coming off it (in rainy weather) which has to have been a sacred spring in ancient times.Think of all the offerings that are buried there. Think too of all the medieval churchmen who must have ridden across our land carelessly dropping rings and bits of crozier...
Debenhams sells a metal detector for under £30- but it can't be any good, can it? The regular ones seem to start at about £500.
Debenhams sells a metal detector for under £30- but it can't be any good, can it? The regular ones seem to start at about £500.
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Date: 2013-09-25 08:08 pm (UTC)I'd do the same thing, supposedly we have pirate's treasure around, but all the land is private, and not mine. And we have no metallic history otherwise.
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Date: 2013-09-25 11:35 pm (UTC)When I was looking for this house I found one I liked in the little town next door. It was a bank repo and had a nice vacant field next to it. I ended up not taking it, and later learned that the reason the field was vacant was because they had found Indian remains there when they tried to build in it, and so left it undeveloped.
But - the idea if Viking booty or even the occasional dropped coin from 1000 years ago is way more exciting.
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Date: 2013-09-26 08:05 am (UTC)Even though I went to a school whose alumni included Sir Max Mallowan- the great archaeologist who married Agatha Christie.
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