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Monganaut
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Re: Detectorist 'shaking with happiness' after Bronze Age find
Aug 11, 2020, 00:32
Yeah saw that. Beautiful horse harness. Doesn't look the kind of soil for that level of preservation, guess it was down to local conditions.

I've yet to find anything prehistoric on any of my many many mooches out and about. But then I don't have a metal detector, and my eyesight ain't what it was. Mind you did find a few flint odds and ends at a nearby Mesolithic site (which is surprisingly close to Birmingham). Seeing as flint isn't indigenous in the area, I like to think maybe they are a few bits of flint working flakes washed downhill (though a local history group did catalogue nearly 20000 'flakes' fireldwalking over several years, so maybe not so rare after all).
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