Viking hoard

Hussulo · October 12, 2014 7:09AM

Someone was lucky enough to find a viking hoard not far from me http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-29582866.

I've been lucky enough to get permission from a local farmer to detect on his fields. He has 70 fields so it should keep me busy for a while.

ricko · October 12, 2014 8:29AM

Wow.... best of luck, hope you find a hoard.....

Would be great for a forum member to hit a big one.... Cheers, RickO

Hussulo · October 13, 2014 5:47AM

Hope so ricko.

More pictures of the hoard

http://www.churchofscotland.org.uk/news_and_events/news/2014/spectacular-viking-treasure-hoard-found-on-church-land

scooperqpr · October 17, 2014 3:44PM

I just read this, they still have to open the urn yet, PAY DIRT

ricko · October 18, 2014 3:38AM

Just abso-frikken-lutely awesome...Cheers, RickO

LochNESS · October 23, 2014 3:25PM

Are coins typically found in the urns?

lordmarcovan · October 24, 2014 4:02PM

<< <i>Are coins typically found in the urns?

>>

Coins or hacksilver, yeah.

LochNESS · October 29, 2014 5:55PM

Hacksilver?

lordmarcovan · October 29, 2014 7:24PM

Hacksilver.

LochNESS · October 31, 2014 2:58PM

Ah. Pretty cool history lesson there. I clicked through to read about the Rus' peoples. I'd always wondered about the origins of the Russians.

lordmarcovan · November 3, 2014 4:54AM

That's the cool thing about Wikipedia. You can start with one topic and keep clicking through, ending up miles away from where you started. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Many's the time I've started out reading on one topic and ended up learning something completely unexpected and unrelated, sometimes forgetting what the original topic was.

ricko · November 3, 2014 5:20AM

Yep, I have become lost in the internet many times, but usually come out the better informed - eventually....

Cheers, RickO

grip · November 7, 2014 8:42AM

<< <i>That's the cool thing about Wikipedia. You can start with one topic and keep clicking through, ending up miles away from where you started. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Many's the time I've started out reading on one topic and ended up learning something completely unexpected and unrelated, sometimes forgetting what the original topic was. >>

I can relate to that. I use that site quite often, it's addicting .

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