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An amateur detectorist finds the haul of a lifetime outside of Bucharest, Romania.
Link: https://themunicheye.com/amateur-treasure-hunter-discovers-1500-roman-coins-20949
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Hidden in plain sight, as they would say. A 1327 "Copy" of the Magna Carta, purchased in London in 1946 for the princely sum of $27.50 has proven to be an original.
Link: https://hls.harvard.edu/today/harvard-law-schools-copy-of-magna-carta-revealed-as-original/
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...found by hikers in the Czech Republic. Probably cached in WWII and never recovered.
Read More Here: https://arkeonews.net/astonishing-find-in-the-czech-republic-hikers-discover-a-3-7-kilogram-serbian-bosnian-gold-treasure/
And, WWII and how much more is out there?
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The morning in the thrift shop, as I suspected many people are clearing their curbs of the trash left over from the weekend's "TRASH TO TREASURE". So no end to unpacking rubbish and discouragement, that and it being month end, half-used tubes of toothpaste, bars of soap, bottles of scope, rusty razors, empty shampoo, I should be on the door turning these people away...
But - I find this:
Too good to leave behind, and nobody wants to price it for me...In the end, fifty cents.
The item appears new. Now - zoom into the new-price-tag in the bottom right corner. That's right, $1, 240.00.
Now to find the person I can best offend with this...there's not enough action in my world to require it, but somebody has to want it...given the number of Burlesque Dancers in town it shouldn't be a problem.
One other find, a fine copy of "The ascent of Everest" by John Hunt, 1954, First Edition and signed by the author. By donation. Doing a little research online I find another copy in similar condition, priced near enough to $900.00. Treasure, for sure, but the first treasure of the day made for a better picture...
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Actually 5 arrowheads, counting the 2 that Christopher found.
Monday, cool and rainy, trip out past Balfour with Christopher, do some prospecting up Cedar creek road. Some interesting rocks, promising conditions, but no great finds.
Then back to Balfour where we comb the washout from the ferry landing run off, Chris a few feet ahead of me finds 2 arrowheads, both in relatively great condition:
I'm annoyed beyond measure, but we keep hunting, going down the beach past the restaurant, the bad neighbor to where the new trailer park will be. And heads-down comb the beach for about 3 hours in the drizzle and rain.
In the end I find a total of 3 arrowheads and a couple of scrapers, tools, and a pile of rocks. Just rocks, interesting to me.
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bottom left, a scraper, green chert, you can see the knapping on the edge. Next to it a yellow-ish spear head, the yellow is a patina that forms on the chert over thousands of years, making it tough to spot (vs the fresher flakes), but to handle it you can feel every divot and knapped edge. No coin for scale but it's about an inch and a half long. I say spear vs arrowhead as it's a little think in the center, not well enough balanced to be fired off from a bow. To the right on the bottom, a fresher point, beside that, a grey arrowhead, again covered in patina, next to that a needle or aul, otherwise, a few other tools, scrapers, flakes, and the assorted rocks that I find interesting and invariably stuff my pockets full of. The pink quartzite "scraper" is a paleo-maybe, no obvious signs of work but I found it a little too conveniently shaped to leave behind.
Now, getting a taste for the season...