Dr Tess Machling

Very much so.

Hanging out with Grayson Perry (and @kayth.bsky.social and @drsadiewatson.bsky.social) in London. Hilarious lecture on:

‘Why I hate Classical Civilization’.

Perfect!! 😂😂😂

In a week of heritage being sold to anonymous collectors, it's great to see anonymous donors helping save an important archaeological artefact 👇👇

I'll be sharing something else in the next few days that equally needs help, so maybe you might be able to help that one, if you were able.

Oh how strange! It definitely isn't.

Wooohooo!!!

260 of you, in fivers, tenners and more have raised £10,000!! Well done everyone! 👏

I'm sure there will be stretch funding, but this is brilliant news, it really is.

#Archaeology p🏺

Awwww ❤️

Thank you ❤️

So close!! Can we get it across the line and into the safety of Leicester Museums Service, where it can be researched, studied... and looked after in perpetuity!

#Archaeology 🏺

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I know! Such a lovely story!

Aww brilliant! Even in my teeny, less than 2ft x 2ft, garden pond in the middle of urban Snorbens we have loads of frogs.

Them and the hedgepigs keep the slugs and snails in check.

Thank you Bill 😊

Thank you - we all need joy right now, don't we? 😊

Thank you 😊

Oh he is entirely unrepentent!

P.S. A correction to the DCMS FOI Treasure reward figures by Tess Machling [A download/print PDF version can be found at the end of the paper] I am going to be completely honest: since I started writing about detecting, as well as receiving support from s…

No idea what's going on with these figures & have run out of energy to even try to work it out.

I want away from the #detecting world: it's grasping, misogynistic & unpleasant, so this is the final blog from me about this.

Thanks all :)

#Archaeology #Treasure

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He's FSA too...

When you send an email to some folks in Leeds that begins,

"I know what I'm about to write is going to sound crazy, but I'm really hoping you might be able to help me..."

... you know you're back in Harry Price Land. 😂

#Archaeology 🏺 #HarryPrice

Going… going… gone overseas? by Tess Machling [A download/print PDF version can be found at the end of the paper] Abstract With the boom in detecting tourism, and with mass detecting rallies being held across the UK, increasin…

It may yet. They've been bought, by that doesn't mean they've been shipped - it depends.

I think if they've already got a OIEL they can anyway?

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We don't know how much of the reward Licence donated. And tbh would have been better had he waived his portion of the reward so that a museum might have been able to purchase the hoard. Also, he and the landowner kept a coin each...

Oh! Hope the email was OK!

Assuming all the flag shaggers constantly bemoaning the 'loss of our culture' will be on this right away. Any minute know...

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British Iron Age gold coins worth £33,000 sold to US collectors The collection was found in a field near Bury St Edmunds features distinctive horse designs

At least this records that folks were appalled by the sale...

#Archaeology #Treasurw #Detecting 🏺

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Have inadvertently spent the afternoon researching Rolls-Royce cars...

Harry is back! 😂

... and if he's done what I think he's done then, oh my, have I got a tale to tell!!! 😲😲😲

Thank you! ❤️

Coin used as Leeds bus fare was 2,000‑year‑old currency The coin was handed down to Peter Edwards from his grandfather in the 1950s.

"My first thought when I found out its origin was that I would like to return it to an institute where it could be studied by all...My grandfather would be proud to know, as I am, that the coin is coming back to Leeds."

Lovely. ❤️

#Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting 🏺
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Snettisham torc H7: Up close by Tess Machling [A download/print PDF version can be found at the end of the paper] Having previously written about the H7 torc from Snettisham a few years ago, I recently had the chance to see it…

A rather odd sibling for the Newark torc and the Netherurd terminal: Torc H7 from Snettisham.

#Archaeology #Torcs #Gold

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Oh he's arrived!! He's such a cutie! 🐕

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