Man with metal detector discovers a hoard of Bronze Age artifacts in a field

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Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/08/11/man-with-metal-detector-discov.html

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Is this lazy editing and perhaps a link copied by mistake from the source or the greatest non-sequiter to hit Boing Boing this year?

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From the CNN article:

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Right. It was an interstitial headline that made it over in my copy-paste. Thank you; fixed!

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Good on this guy. His karma level just blew through the roof.

200w

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:slight_smile: There are worse ways to start a day.

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Not to diminish his character, but he didn’t really have a choice. The Treasure Act of 1996 requires that he report the find, and offer it to a museum for a price determined by an independent third party.

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Came here for a Detectorists reference (actually to post one).

Delighted.

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Got here first! Happy there are other fans. One of the best shows ever.

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Luckily for archaeologists, ancient Scotsmen were not the austere monastic type. Going for simple funerals/graves.But they apparently loved showering grave sites with assorted knicknacks and doodads to be found centuries later.

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For those unfamiliar with The Detectorists https://youtu.be/NgN7z0SD8v8

And for those who are familiar https://youtu.be/hwWv6UphTWM

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sighs

Now I have to watch the whole series again…

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This strikes me as rather a good system. The landowners have an incentive to encourage people looking for this stuff, finders have an incentive to report it in its in-tact, in situ location, and the public/academia gets a chance to learn from it.

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From the responses to other topics where the show was mentioned, there’s quite a community of fans here on the BBS.

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That’s why he’s a stand up guy. Could have just dug it up and stuck it in his pockets.

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The Picts Scots disclaim any responsibility for the Bronze Age Collapse.

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Another version of how this was reported.

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That would have been illegal and recently some others who did that here were jailed.

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This show is now always the first thing that comes to mind when anything comes up in the news about metal detectors.

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