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Title: Is it really me or -------- Post by: Charles Cater on March 09, 2009, 06:40:53 PM Is it me or am I being critical. I am now coming up to 84 and I think I know a little about life having lived so long but I was discusted at the way Time Team treat us metal detectorists,
I recorded Sunday nights programme and watched it this afternoon , it was about the residential area that King George III spent about 10 years of his life. All of the palace had been robbed out but in the back gound was two detecorists who must have been told where they should stand. Now whethr they were one like us or part of the other gang I don't know but what I do know is that the arkies are still agaist the name "Detectorist" as if we are the reason bubonic plague was spread around. Out of no-where they came up with one find, it was a coin of George III in pretty grotty condition. It did not take me two seonds to recognise it was a 'token' which obviously had been worn about ones person for many years but what struck me was the the obverse head was practically non-existent wich in my estimation was scraped offby someone who hated the monarch, similar of most of Mary coins. The reverse as not too bad, at least it could be seen but looked as if it had been in someones pocket or purse over a long period of time. Now this is where I really come in, the 'coin' was famliarly bent one way and then the other to denote it was a keepsake but without that dreadful word being uttered Robinson said " Does anyone know why it is shaped like this". My bet is that the detectorists told them but the arkies did not believe them. On and on it goes. I think we can learn them a thing or two about old coins and artefacts. I still have my faculties. >:( Title: Re: Is it really me or -------- Post by: DIG IT! (ADIE) on March 09, 2009, 06:50:31 PM Ah tony robinson my favourite subject CANT STAND THE BLOKE.Top class arkie though.(dont think so)two bit actor with attitude >:(
Title: Re: Is it really me or -------- Post by: KANE (DES) on March 09, 2009, 07:11:41 PM hi all i see tony robinson pretty often and hes the same in real life as he is on the tv
an obnoxtious ------------ sorrycould not swear on the forum lol DES Title: Re: Is it really me or -------- Post by: mickycoin "mick" on March 09, 2009, 08:24:15 PM hi there " BALDRIC " black adder knows naff all, he would not know heads from tails, if not for detectorists reports to f.l.o i do not think they would have a clue to what was where anyway MY OWN VIEW. mick ps and you have to have funny hats scarfs etc to pass judgement
Title: Re: Is it really me or -------- Post by: detectordave on March 09, 2009, 08:42:03 PM A couple of years ago myself and some other members of the Llanelli Club took part in a Time Team dig in Llandelio,to say we were treated like dirt would be an understatement.On one of the hottest days of the year we were left to stand around like lemons for hours on end and were only allowed to detect on the top soil with an archy almost on top of us.We were not allowed to detect anywhere else in the park not even to put markers down for them to dig up later.After eight or nine hours we left and went somewhere else to do some decent detecting,if we ever done it again things would have to be different we are still waiting for a report on the dig and this from about 4 years ago.
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