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  1. Temporarily blocked from export- but if museum can't come up with £18,000 *each*, they'll still vanish overseas to goodness knows where...

    It's often not about museums 'wanting' finds, it's about being able to 'afford' them...

    #Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting

    gov.uk/government/news/export-

    bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/11/19/

  2. Temporarily blocked from export- but if museum can't come up with £18,000 *each*, they'll still vanish overseas to goodness knows where...

    It's often not about museums 'wanting' finds, it's about being able to 'afford' them...

    #Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting

    gov.uk/government/news/export-

    bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/11/19/

  3. Temporarily blocked from export- but if museum can't come up with £18,000 *each*, they'll still vanish overseas to goodness knows where...

    It's often not about museums 'wanting' finds, it's about being able to 'afford' them...

    #Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting

    gov.uk/government/news/export-

    bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/11/19/

  4. New Cloud-Detecting Method Will Help Astronomers Characterize Exoplanets
    atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug
    <p>Astronomers have developed a technique that allows them to detect cloud cycles on distant
    #astronomers #exoplanets #detecting #mornings

  5. 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 🏺

    telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04/2

  6. 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 🏺

    telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04/2

  7. 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 🏺

    telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04/2

  8. 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 🏺

  9. 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 🏺

  10. 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 🏺

  11. 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 🏺

    bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70drp

  12. 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 🏺

    bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70drp

  13. 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 🏺

    bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70drp

  14. ...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

    bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czj1w1

  15. ...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

    bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czj1w1

  16. ...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

    bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czj1w1

  17. £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 🏺

    stokemuseums.org.uk/pmag/the-e

    crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-save-

  18. £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 🏺

    stokemuseums.org.uk/pmag/the-e

    crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-save-

  19. £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 🏺

    stokemuseums.org.uk/pmag/the-e

    crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-save-

  20. "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.

    crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-save-

    #Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting 🏺

    bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c747n8

  21. "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.

    crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-save-

    #Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting 🏺

    bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c747n8

  22. "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.

    crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-save-

    #Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting 🏺

    bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c747n8

  23. 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 🏺

    finds.org.uk/database/images/i

    Text from: spectator.com/article/why-a-se

  24. 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 🏺

    finds.org.uk/database/images/i

    Text from: spectator.com/article/why-a-se

  25. 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 🏺

    finds.org.uk/database/images/i

    Text from: spectator.com/article/why-a-se

  26. I disagree with Mike in a lot of this - in the fact that we're divided (really we aren't), the absence of recognition that the museum probably couldn't afford it, his conclusions, and the archaeological 'worth' of many detected finds, but it was good to see the raw £ finally getting some coverage, even if it is the awful Spectator!

    Also confirmation that disclaimed hoards *are* being melted down... 😫

    #Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure 🏺

    spectator.com/article/why-a-se

  27. I disagree with Mike in a lot of this - in the fact that we're divided (really we aren't), the absence of recognition that the museum probably couldn't afford it, his conclusions, and the archaeological 'worth' of many detected finds, but it was good to see the raw £ finally getting some coverage, even if it is the awful Spectator!

    Also confirmation that disclaimed hoards *are* being melted down... 😫

    #Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure 🏺

    spectator.com/article/why-a-se

  28. I disagree with Mike in a lot of this - in the fact that we're divided (really we aren't), the absence of recognition that the museum probably couldn't afford it, his conclusions, and the archaeological 'worth' of many detected finds, but it was good to see the raw £ finally getting some coverage, even if it is the awful Spectator!

    Also confirmation that disclaimed hoards *are* being melted down... 😫

    #Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure 🏺

    spectator.com/article/why-a-se

  29. This is what happens when 'treasure' can't be bought by a museum - the hoard has been broken up into individual auction lots & will disappear into many different hands, some almost certainly overseas.

    When do we start saying enough is enough??

    noonans.co.uk/auctions/calenda

    #Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting 🏺

    bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr033

  30. This is what happens when 'treasure' can't be bought by a museum - the hoard has been broken up into individual auction lots & will disappear into many different hands, some almost certainly overseas.

    When do we start saying enough is enough??

    noonans.co.uk/auctions/calenda

    #Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting 🏺

    bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr033

  31. This is what happens when 'treasure' can't be bought by a museum - the hoard has been broken up into individual auction lots & will disappear into many different hands, some almost certainly overseas.

    When do we start saying enough is enough??

    noonans.co.uk/auctions/calenda

    #Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting 🏺

    bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr033

  32. It was such a pleasure to talk to Geraldine from the Museums Journal about the various issues associated with 'treasure', detecting and dwindling museum resources...

    #Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure 🏺 #Museums

    museumsassociation.org/museums

  33. It was such a pleasure to talk to Geraldine from the Museums Journal about the various issues associated with 'treasure', detecting and dwindling museum resources...

    #Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure 🏺 #Museums

    museumsassociation.org/museums

  34. It was such a pleasure to talk to Geraldine from the Museums Journal about the various issues associated with 'treasure', detecting and dwindling museum resources...

    #Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure 🏺 #Museums

    museumsassociation.org/museums

  35. 'more than 45,000 members of the public had contributed to the cause'

    ... and all to pay the detectorist and landowner for a lucky find!!!

    #Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting 🏺

    bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yk3v

  36. 'more than 45,000 members of the public had contributed to the cause'

    ... and all to pay the detectorist and landowner for a lucky find!!!

    #Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting 🏺

    bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yk3v

  37. 'more than 45,000 members of the public had contributed to the cause'

    ... and all to pay the detectorist and landowner for a lucky find!!!

    #Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting 🏺

    bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yk3v

  38. I rather liked this... not the usual type of story we get about things from fields - it's gentle and thoughtful.

    Top marks for getting it in Farmer's Weekly too...

    It ain't all 'treasure'...

    #Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting 🏺

    fwi.co.uk/farm-life/ancient-ob

  39. I rather liked this... not the usual type of story we get about things from fields - it's gentle and thoughtful.

    Top marks for getting it in Farmer's Weekly too...

    It ain't all 'treasure'...

    #Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting 🏺

    fwi.co.uk/farm-life/ancient-ob

  40. I rather liked this... not the usual type of story we get about things from fields - it's gentle and thoughtful.

    Top marks for getting it in Farmer's Weekly too...

    It ain't all 'treasure'...

    #Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting 🏺

    fwi.co.uk/farm-life/ancient-ob

  41. 450,000 artefacts from the HS2 excavations *alone*.

    So the next time detectorists tell you they find everything archaeologically important - they don't. 😝

    #Archaeology 🏺 #Detecting #Treasure

    bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c93v21

  42. 450,000 artefacts from the HS2 excavations *alone*.

    So the next time detectorists tell you they find everything archaeologically important - they don't. 😝

    #Archaeology 🏺 #Detecting #Treasure

    bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c93v21

  43. 450,000 artefacts from the HS2 excavations *alone*.

    So the next time detectorists tell you they find everything archaeologically important - they don't. 😝

    #Archaeology 🏺 #Detecting #Treasure

    bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c93v21

  44. The PAS report for 2024 is out. 79,616 finds were reported (up 7% from 2023's 74,506) 1540 Treasure finds (up 12% from 2023's 1358) So... numbers are still rising at alarming rates.

    finds.org.uk/documents/annualr

    Only 4238 finders are reporting to PAS (up from 2023's 3877... but considering the huge boom in the numbers of those detecting, this is still only 1-10% of the number of detectorists in UK). AKA we're still in a mess and it's only getting worse...

    Interestingly, there is *NO INFO* in the 2024 PAS report (unlike the 2023 report) regarding numbers of finds being exported!! Why is that?? Hmmmm...

    TLDR All numbers are still increasing and the picture I've been highlighting over the last few months isn't getting any better...

    bigbookoftorcs.com/who-owns-to

    #Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure

  45. The PAS report for 2024 is out. 79,616 finds were reported (up 7% from 2023's 74,506) 1540 Treasure finds (up 12% from 2023's 1358) So... numbers are still rising at alarming rates.

    finds.org.uk/documents/annualr

    Only 4238 finders are reporting to PAS (up from 2023's 3877... but considering the huge boom in the numbers of those detecting, this is still only 1-10% of the number of detectorists in UK). AKA we're still in a mess and it's only getting worse...

    Interestingly, there is *NO INFO* in the 2024 PAS report (unlike the 2023 report) regarding numbers of finds being exported!! Why is that?? Hmmmm...

    TLDR All numbers are still increasing and the picture I've been highlighting over the last few months isn't getting any better...

    bigbookoftorcs.com/who-owns-to

    #Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure

  46. The PAS report for 2024 is out. 79,616 finds were reported (up 7% from 2023's 74,506) 1540 Treasure finds (up 12% from 2023's 1358) So... numbers are still rising at alarming rates.

    finds.org.uk/documents/annualr

    Only 4238 finders are reporting to PAS (up from 2023's 3877... but considering the huge boom in the numbers of those detecting, this is still only 1-10% of the number of detectorists in UK). AKA we're still in a mess and it's only getting worse...

    Interestingly, there is *NO INFO* in the 2024 PAS report (unlike the 2023 report) regarding numbers of finds being exported!! Why is that?? Hmmmm...

    TLDR All numbers are still increasing and the picture I've been highlighting over the last few months isn't getting any better...

    bigbookoftorcs.com/who-owns-to

    #Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure

  47. If anyone's feeling brave, this will be on tonight.

    In case you don't know of Detectival, it's an annual metal detecting rally where 1000 detectorists, from 37 countries (their info for 2025), take part and which results in hundreds of finds, many of which are exported...

    PAS (understandably) won't attend, so instead a commercial artefact recording organisation is paid to.

    Not entirely sure why this would be something to celebrate on prime-time TV, but we shall see how they cover it...

    #Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure

  48. If anyone's feeling brave, this will be on tonight.

    In case you don't know of Detectival, it's an annual metal detecting rally where 1000 detectorists, from 37 countries (their info for 2025), take part and which results in hundreds of finds, many of which are exported...

    PAS (understandably) won't attend, so instead a commercial artefact recording organisation is paid to.

    Not entirely sure why this would be something to celebrate on prime-time TV, but we shall see how they cover it...

    #Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure

  49. If anyone's feeling brave, this will be on tonight.

    In case you don't know of Detectival, it's an annual metal detecting rally where 1000 detectorists, from 37 countries (their info for 2025), take part and which results in hundreds of finds, many of which are exported...

    PAS (understandably) won't attend, so instead a commercial artefact recording organisation is paid to.

    Not entirely sure why this would be something to celebrate on prime-time TV, but we shall see how they cover it...

    #Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure

  50. FOI requests show that, in 2024/2025, payments to individual finders & landowners for 'Treasure' rewards cost us £7,280,321.26

    That's £7.3 million that could have been spent on curators, museums & heritage...

    It's time to reduce rewards & regulate detecting. Our shared history requires nothing less.

    #Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting 🏺

    bigbookoftorcs.com/2026/01/11/

  51. FOI requests show that, in 2024/2025, payments to individual finders & landowners for 'Treasure' rewards cost us £7,280,321.26

    That's £7.3 million that could have been spent on curators, museums & heritage...

    It's time to reduce rewards & regulate detecting. Our shared history requires nothing less.

    #Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting 🏺

    bigbookoftorcs.com/2026/01/11/