Lets hope he had permission of the land owner …
I presume he’ll be on a 50/50 split with the landowner. I saw a programme about the Staffordshire Hoard (also found by a lorry driver). The treasure they found was put in a museum on exhibition, and the money raised from entrance fees split between the land owner and the detctorist. Without researching, I’m sure they got a couple of million each.
Amazing! You’ve got to since how something so valuable ended up in a field a stone’s throw from the bishops palace.
I mean it’s from the 15th century, not exactly the dark ages - when people buried treasure to hide it from the Vikings, got killed/enslaved by said visitors, and so it remained there for modern detectorists to find.
The only thing I can think of is loot from the Wars of the Roses (not sure if there was a battle near there - Sandal/Wakefield is the closest one that I’m aware of.
Failing that, a burglary, bungled then the evidence disposed of? An illegitimate pregnancy to a servant, bought off with a gold ring, then flung away by heartbroken wench?
Fascinating.
I imagine it would be quite common to bury something for safe-keeping, only to die of plague, invaders, etc before retrieving it. Especially when there weren’t any banks or safes, and you could quite literally die any day. Vikings and Normans would kill for anything of value, so better to bury it and appear a peasant.
I remember there was a hoard found somewhere (could have been the Staffordshire), where historians reckon someone looted the valuables from dead bodies after a large battle, and buried it all in a random place for safe-keeping. They then died before they could retrieve it, only for it to be dug-up a thousand years later by a detectorist.
Rottweiler22:
I imagine it would be quite common to bury something for safe-keeping, only to die of plague, invaders, etc before retrieving it. Especially when there weren’t any banks or safes, and you could quite literally die any day. Vikings and Normans would kill for anything of value, so better to bury it and appear a peasant.I g there was a hoard found somewhere (could have been the Staffordshire), where historians reckon someone looted the valuables from dead bodies after a large battle, and buried it all in a random place for safe-keeping. They then died before they could retrieve it, only for it to be dug-up a thousand years later by a detectorist.
Yeah, but my point was that the invaders were all done by then. 1066 was pretty much the end of it (you don’t f*ck with William), so this was at least 334 years after that, it being a 15th century ring.
Hull HGV driver, …UKtramp?
New hobby ?..now that he does not spend so much time on Trucknet. 
robroy:
Hull HGV driver, …UKtramp?
New hobby ?..now that he does not spend so much time on Trucknet.
I actually do metal detecting as a hobby rob, my interests are WW2 relics. Although they are fast rusting away into obscurity. You would be very lucky to find anything gold buried in the ground as this lucky lad has, gold gives a very light & faint signal back which will often be missed. So lucky is not the word here, only wished it was me that had found it. Not for the monetary value but the whole heritage concept. If he is half decent he will give it to the local museum rather than trying to sell it. Anything to do with national treasure has to be handed over to the authorities anyway and this will come into that category. They will value it and give the money to him rather than it go to a private collector.
I would love to know which field in beverley he found it as i live there also…might be time well spent on a day off lol…