Medieval treasure found in Herefordshire (From Ledbury Reporter)
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Medieval treasure found in Herefordshire
7:00am Friday 1st February 2013 in News By Lydia Johnson
The medieval silver strap end
MORE evidence of Herefordshire’s rich history has been uncovered after treasure was found below ground.
A medieval silver annular brooch, a silver strap end and two early Bronze Age flat axes were all discovered in the county by metal detecting enthusiasts.
Hereford’s deputy coroner Roland Wooderson last week declared all the items were at least 300 years old and contained at least 10 per cent of either gold or silver – therefore making them treasure.
The brooch, which would have been a popular dress accessory around the 13th or 14th century, was found in Eardisley in February 2011.
The Bronze Age axes – one of which is near complete – were found in Hereford in 2010. They are thought to date back to between 2,000BC and 1,900BC.
Both the axes and the brooch were found by Steve Williams.
Allan Mills, meanwhile, was the man who found the medieval silver strap end in Canon Pyon.
He admitted he “had no idea” what he had dug up but it turns out that the historic piece would have been attached to the end of a belt worn between the 13th and mid-15th centuries.
Comments(9)
Clarkester
says...
1:25pm Fri 1 Feb 13
I have been digging for treasure, no need of those stupid metal detectors...
And all I found was a load of copper!
"Great" I thought, "I'm rich!"
Not sure why, it's not even my name!
Anyway, my case is in court next week...
Apparently "the man" doesn't like having his telephone cables dug up and "treasured!"
bobby47
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6:32pm Fri 1 Feb 13
You tippy toed out, presumably in the dead of night, commenced digging for trinkets of gold and silver but, alas you struck copper that was bound in thick plastic and attached to a domestic landline phone.
Yes it's a knotty one isn't it? How best to guide you!!!
You could of course run from justice, become a jumper or stand resolute, deny these spurious allegations, throw a double six and hope for the best.
Anyway, good luck whilst you serve your deserved and lengthy custodial sentence in HMP Hellhouse.
littlewhitebull
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12:57pm Sun 3 Feb 13
dippyhippy
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1:39pm Sun 3 Feb 13
littlewhitebull
says...
6:31pm Sun 3 Feb 13
Sad to say I don't think it's really working.
bobby47
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7:02pm Sun 3 Feb 13
littlewhitebull
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11:49am Tue 5 Feb 13
Luckily, it was King Quasimodo III, or such like.
"A hearse, a hearse, my kingdom for a hearse!"
bobby47
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1:30pm Tue 5 Feb 13
Why couldn't this Plantagenet met his end up bloody Capuchin Lane or East Street.
It's never us is it? We never find anything that might bring people to Hereford.
I mean, no fools going to say to his family, 'come on, lets go to Hereford and view this silver button that they dug up. Whereas, if Richard had been found on our patch people would say,'let's go see this despotic King and his twisted spine. It'll be we'll worth it'.
It's so bloody depressing.! Our last half decent find was the Rotherwas Ribbon and the Council said, 'bury the bloody thing. We don't want people coming here and discovering we have no toilets'.
We never get a bloody break. Never a boost. Not an ap'eth of bloody hopeful anticipation.
bobby47 says...
12:33pm Fri 1 Feb 13
If there's one thing I hate, other than an embellisher, this bloody Council and the way John Terry wears his socks, is a man or a woman who acquires a metal detector and gets bloody lucky straight away. It makes me bloody sick.
There is a right way of burrowing beneath the earth and Im doing it.
I've been burrowing for many years with not a hint of success or reward for my considerable endeavours and not once have I considered purchasing a dirty rotten stinking metal detector.
I can hold my head up high, if I was able to in this dark and dank narrow tunnel and say that I will never prostitute my principles and become a dirty rotten stinking cheat and use a metal detector.
That said, I'll take some of the credit for this find, for I have burrowed beneath this aforementioned location and Im guessing that whilst I was scurrying through my tunnel I probably disturbed the earth above me and consequently these lovely things must have surfaced enabling the treasure to be discovered by this bloody cheat with his dirty stinking rotten metal detector.