dammit!
I knew I left them somewhere! :-p
Guess this is the early version of loosing your change down the back of sofa :-)
Multimillion-pound hoard of 50BC GOLD PIECES found in Jersey
Two tenacious metal-detector enthusiasts have unearthed a record hoard of Iron Age coins in a field in Jersey. Conservation work starts on Iron Age coin hoard Credit: Jersey Heritage Reg Mead and Richard Miles went over the same area with their detectors over and over again for the last 30 years before finally finding …
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Thursday 28th June 2012 14:52 GMT Anonymous Coward
Whoever it's determined actually 'owns' this find, if it's worth £10m I would hope that the 2 guys that actually made the discovery come out of it with at least £1m each - they did the right thing when it would have been very easy just to dig it up and sell it illegally. That sort of thing deserves to be rewarded.
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Thursday 28th June 2012 15:02 GMT NightFox
Agree with the sentiment, but there's a big difference between what a find is 'worth', and that money actually becoming real enough to give someone, especially if you're putting the hoard on display. I somehow doubt that Jersey Heritage will have a couple of million in their slush fund as a 'thank you'.
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Friday 29th June 2012 13:24 GMT Paul Bruneau
Re: Searching over the same field for 30 years?
As a former metal detector enthusiast, I can tell you that one can go over a particular area many times and find new items each time. The varying moisture level of the soil, the randomness of how one swings the detector, and probably the huge size of the area ensures that new finds are always being found.
Of course, here in the states, we don't find things such as this--we are happy to find a 1950's silver dime!
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Thursday 28th June 2012 21:31 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: i must have missed the IT angle
Metal detectors these days are high tech gear, and typically contain a microcontroller that generates a square wave pulse, and performs analogue to digital conversion on any incoming signal. This is then interpreted by signal processing software, and the result displayed in human readable form on an LCD display. This all generally runs under a pre-emptive multi tasking real time scheduler, with custom device drivers carefully crafted for the device's unique hardware, which can include display, buttons, audio, LCD screen and custom GUI, sigma delta ADC, etc. There's your IT angle.
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Friday 29th June 2012 06:52 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: i must have missed the IT angle
The aim is to draw out the witless misanthropes who, every time there's an interesting article which doesn't mention the ACT DX-260000-M microprocessor, lumber out from under their bridge and complain about the 'lack of IT angle' in a story.
It seems to have worked.
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Friday 29th June 2012 09:18 GMT nematoad
Re: No Gold reported
Yes, if as reported the coins have been fused into a solid mass that would show that the vast majority are NOT gold.
Gold does not corrode; silver and bronze do, which would account for them sticking together. In any case if the hoard was of gold coins a half a tonne would be a damned sight more valuable that the £10 million that I have seen quoted.
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