Dont you Americans wish......

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........for one day you could get to the UK and detect? All that roman .........mmmmmmmm. Just kidding. This is a genuine question. I mean you guys may be from the other side o the pond but its hard for me to machine as my machine is now broke and i have started to bottle dig a bit more. I am only 17 but its still phenonomal for me to do what I do. I have just been at this monster Bottle site where they had a 1920s dump but the diggers moved in ( doing me a favour/favor)*. They churned it up and I got some pretty good stuff. Nice flagon a small hexagonal blue poison. Its pretty illegal and the mound is about 19ft. I was on top of that and felt proud as punch. Its right near the freeway/motorway* though. Can get a bit scary but ill go again i reckon.

* american/english terms.

 

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its history beneath your feet. manCHESTER is Roman .

 

[Highmountain]

It's gotta be great. There's a castle on the South Wales coast with a huge cave underneath just above sea level and steps inside the castle going down to it through a sort of tunnel. I thought when I was nosing around there it would be some great detecting down in that cave.

Lots of stuff down Bristol and Cornwall way that looks pretty inviting, Roman ruins abandoned after the final stages of the occupation, that sort of thing. Yep, us Yanks do wish when they bring the US Army home from Europe one of these days they'd make a stop in the UK on their way home, load up the British Museum, Salsbury Cathedral, Stonehenge and everything else they could get their hands on and haul it back to the US, Goering-style. With all that underground detection equipment they have nowadays we could probably have a whole new city full of cool British history down by the London Bridge in the Desert.

Ever visited that preservation project for Henry8s flagship down in Southhampton or Portsmouth? The artifacts they got out of that thing are truly amazing. Hundreds of sundial wristwatches, all manner of stuff we Yanks would like to reinvent and claim as our own, plus a lot we've already reinvented. Any idea what they did they did with all the human remains they found when they were recovering that wreck? None of them on display.

There's a place in South Wales near Breakfa (?) where there's a monument on the road describing how in 1803 or thereabouts a drunken stagecoach driver ran it off a cliff at that spot killing the surprisingly large number of people aboard and shattering the coach. If you can get to the bottom of that cliff with a detector you might find some interesting stuff.

Best to you.

 

[Highmountain]

Mail Coach Pillar and Driving While Intoxicated

Just found the pic.. it's from the mid-1980s. My memory's no good anymore. Turns out it was 1835 and it was the Glouchester - Carmarthen Mail Coach and the cliff was only 121 feet.

But in any case I'm betting if you can get to the bottom of that cliff with a detector there's some interesting debris there. Unless that road's been improved a lot since the 1980s it's narrow and doesn't have a grader ditch you can pull off and park in, so you might have to do some walking from the nearest place you can leave your car.

Best,
Jack

 

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but then again you americans can discover civil war/wild west indian objects. and also mining towns dumped bottles.

 

[Highmountain]

Yeah, we can. But we'll enjoy discovering some British history after we bring the Army home.

We've got tour-busses full of CIA agents over there right now disguised as old ladies with orange hair and bald old men with canes taking inventory and noting the locations all the stuff we want. Everything that's pre-American Revolution is automatically American history and destined for the Arizona desert.

We haven't decided yet where we'll put the British Museum. Probably someplace dry where all those amazing artifacts you guys took from arid countries you occupied will feel more at home, I'm thinking.

Meanwhile, take good care of our stuff. We appreciate you watching over it for us.

Best to you,
Jack

 

[Lowbatts]

One nice thing about the U.S, we seldom have to dig more than a few inches for recoveries with only a few hundreds years to account for....

 

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yeah ive heard of holes several feet been dug. its crazy man.

 

[Highmountain]

Bleep: I just got a PM from you indicating I didn't manage to communicate something I intended to:

That stagecoach fell off a cliff in the UK, between Carmarthen and Gloucester. The site's not in the US. It's in the same country you are in: that big island-thing sort of off the coast of Europe, similar to the way Japan's off the coast of Asia.

 

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i just PMd jack to clarify it was my mistake. I misunderstood but the distance between gloucester and carmarthen is a long way........