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lordmarcovan · February 17, 2010 7:28PM

Feb 2010 note-

I thought I should work on my writing some, so I was gonna lay back from the forums for a while. Then I realized I had all this big pile of past stories scattered hither and yon on the forums, and I figured they needed to be dug back up, dusted off, and in several cases edited, so as to make them part of a coherent whole, if you know what I mean.

The earlier ones had smaller pictures that had been uploaded here and those pictures are for the most part still OK. Then I went to using Photobucket and a lot of those pictures are mostly still OK, too. Unfortunately I switched to the image hosting gallery on 24hourforums.com for much of my 2007-2008 stuff and that gallery no longer exists, so all of those pictures went red-X. I do think I still have them saved somewhere, so I'll be returning to Photobucket as an image hosting service and having to redo a lot of the old stories (or their pictures, anyway).

Forgive me if I flood the forum with some old stories for a little while- some of the oldies have had to be reposted so I can get new URLs for them to link to this index.

Maybe some of you newer members never saw these. The oldtimers will remember some of them. Thanks for the indulgence.

INDEX OF "DIGS O' THE DAY" AND "DIGGER'S DIARY" STORIES

There are still others from 2004-2005, when I started posting these dig tales here, and maybe a few from even earlier. They are fragmentary, though, and will take some work. A few may be lost.

One day I intend to write up some of the highlighted finds from my pre-writing, pre-photographing period. Back in the mid-1990s, I was at my most active as a detectorist, and made some of my best finds. Unfortunately I didn't write about them or take pictures then. I still have all of the coins and some of the relics, though, so I might write up after-the-fact accounts of the finds. These I will call "Digger's Diaries" rather than the more current "Digs O' The Day". So far I have only written up two of these, though I can think of at least four or five other 1990-something outings that deserve to have their stories told.

DIGGER'S DIARY (1998): I CALL THIS ONE "THE" COIN

DIGGER'S DIARY (1994 & 2006): THE MYSTERIOUS MING MEDALLION

I don't know how many of you actually read these, but heck, I am just working on this project for myself at this point.

Master index of my collections, major forum threads, and other stuff.

ricko · February 17, 2010 9:27PM

I definitely read these stories LordM... and enjoy them. Perhaps a book lies somewhere in those pages. Good luck and keep them coming. Cheers, RickO

lordmarcovan · March 8, 2010 2:33PM

Just added one for March 7, 2010.

The lone 2009 story writeup is stalled for the moment- though I have the pictures I took at the time, they were shot in the field, and one of them shows an artifact that bears an inscription needing further research. Unfortunately the inscription is blurry in the photograph I took, and I have temporarily misplaced the items I found that day, so I can't go back to the actual artifact to read it. I am hoping the stuff will turn up- it's put away somewhere. Not only are my past dig stories in a scattered and disorganized state at present, but so is the collection of artifacts itself.

lordmarcovan · February 6, 2011 10:40PM

I'll bump this back up into the daylight, since I've actually gotten out in the field again after a long hiatus. 2011's first hunt is in the bag. The results were not spectacular, but semi-interesting, I reckon. Have the pics ready but need a day or two to do the writeup.

Happily I just discovered a few pictures in a misfiled folder on this computer's hard drive which contains some but not all of the pictures that are missing from some of those stories above. The pictures in those stories went bad when my old image host vanished, and coincidentally around the same time my old laptop (on which I'd stored many of the photos) bit the big one. I even paid some data recovery specialists to try and retrieve the pictures off the hard drive of the dead laptop, but to no avail. I paid my money and got nothing useful. The moral of this story is one should always back up one's files- double and triple backup, if possible. I will have to start over from scratch on those pictures because all that I've found are the raw unedited ones- the final edits disappeared with the old image host and the dead laptop. I'd also better archive everything on my new laptop and on discs, 'cause this old desktop is nearing the end of its useful life after eight years of faithful performance.

demodigger · February 7, 2011 7:09AM

That's why I recently went with fotki.com I bought 10 years of unlimited storage. I also have all file saved on an external hard drive. Can't be too carefull. Id hate to see 20 years of photos disappear.

lordmarcovan · February 7, 2011 8:37AM

Funny thing- the same time my laptop died, so did my external hard drive. It was like the perfect storm of failures- first the image server, then the laptop, then the external hard drive.

ricko · February 7, 2011 7:58PM

Something strange there LordM, I just do not believe in coincidences... all three gone at the same time? Perhaps the hard drive and laptop got zapped? Just pretty amazing to lose all three. Cheers, RickO

lordmarcovan · August 17, 2011 9:34AM

To the top, since I'm tinkering with this.

paladin · August 23, 2011 1:14PM

A basic fact of computing is that, eventually, all hard drives fail. And if you've got more than 4 years on one you're living on borrowed time. Admittedly, I've got some old Seagates that should have kicked the bucket long ago & have been running 24/7 for more years than I can remember. But I still don't trust 'em. Storage is dirt cheap today. Everything's backed up.

lordmarcovan · March 1, 2012 1:29PM

TTT once more, to save this from oblivion.

ricko · March 1, 2012 10:04PM

Ah yes... a walk down memory lane... Cheers, RickO

lordmarcovan · July 8, 2012 1:51AM

TTT, because I'm working on some stories. I'm gonna see if the local paper will give me a weekly byline for a column called "True Treasures of the Golden Isles". Think they'll go for it? We'll see. I won't be submitting these as you see 'em here- rather they will just be short mini-feature writeups with a single picture of one particular artifact or coin. I figure if they like that, I can crank out a bunch, in much less time than these longer writeups (or my new video projects) would take.

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