The Torygraph contacted me last week, but I told them their paper didn't align with my world view...

They wrote it anyway and I have to say, it's pretty good. Much that I hate the Telegraph, it's also in exactly the right newspaper...

#Detecting #Treasure #Archaeology 🏺

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04/25/museums-paying-millions-to-detectorists-for-treasure/

Some great news - thank you to everyone who contributed their hard earned cash!

(Just a reminder that had the finder/ landowner donated the dress fastener, it would have cost £0 instead of £150,000...)

#Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure 🏺

Underwater drone with underwater drone detection devices.
Underwater drone equiped with underwater drone detection systems.

#UnderwaterDrone #DetectionSystems #Underwater #Drones #UnderwaterDrones #Detecting #Detection

Underwater drone detection systems for detecting underwater drones.

#DetectionSystems #Underwater #Drones #UnderwaterDrones #Detecting #Detection

Will be sold to highest bidder - collection broken up, histories lost & disappearing into private collections, some overseas...

Issue of legacy collections - where owners or heirs don't want things, will only get more common...

#Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting 🏺

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70drpjqvdgo

...annnnnnnnnd again.

"it was hoped the artefact...could be acquired by Lincoln Museum"

Note the word 'hoped'. But if Museum can't raise the funds to buy it, it could be sold at auction, sent overseas or melted down.

100% legally

#Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czj1w12ddp2o?app-referrer=search

Detecting file changes on macOS with kqueue

https://www.vegardstikbakke.com/kqueue/

#HackerNews #Detecting #file #changes #on #macOS #with #kqueue #kqueue #macOS #file #monitoring #programming #tips #developer #tools

£300,000 to buy 2 stunning pieces of prehistoric goldwork from 4 people.

So far, c.200 lovely people have given their hard earned cash to rescue these important finds - here's to them!

#Archaeology #Detecting 🏺

https://www.stokemuseums.org.uk/pmag/the-ellastone-fastener/

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-save-leicestershires-bronze-age-torc#

"If the total of £150,000 is not raised, the British Museum has an option to buy the torc, or the finder and owner of the site are able to put it up for sale to the highest bidder."

Grim.

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-save-leicestershires-bronze-age-torc#

#Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting 🏺

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c747n8kd4y7o?app-referrer=deep-link

I wonder which of these 25 ingots @findsorguk.bsky.social (all were returned to finder...) ended up being melted down?

There's very few truly undiagnostic finds - most are awaiting a person or technique to decode their secrets...

#Treasure #Detecting #Archaeology 🏺

https://finds.org.uk/database/images/index/sort/updated/objecttype/INGOT/imageRights/Isle+of+Wight+Council

Text from: https://spectator.com/article/why-a-set-of-gold-coins-have-divided-british-archeologists/