Saxon hoard found WW

[celticspikey]

Apparently found with a Deus, now if that's true some nice PR for them

[Val Beechey]

Even better publicity if they dug them up themselves.


Val

[probono]

I wonder how many people wandered over that signal and didn't dig it because it was too strong - given the size of the hoard, it's amazing it hasn't been found before - fantastic find.

I remember about 10 years ago (or maybe slightly longer) there was a massive hoard (same sort of scale) of Cnuts found and the price of them dropped to about £75 a piece - they'd been bumping around the £150 mark before then.

Given that they seem to be going for £200-£250 at the mo, I can see them drop back a bit (if they ever get to market, which they probably won't). Still that's something of the order of £150K for some people for Christmas.....

[Dale]

Where was the rally held?

[Tafflaff (Rob)]

The Deus is great but,  sorry, not buying the 'Deus has proven itself claim' here. A hoard that size would be picked up by any machine. As has been stated before, the chances are its not been dug as the signal was too big.  

ps Dale, even at £100 a coin the value would be over a million not 100k, You dropped a zero somewhere

[rjm]

Someone's going to have a nice Christmas.   

[handyman [Alan}]

the find was excavated by the FLO and at the count 5225 coins were declared!

[BugbrookeBen]

Brilliant hoard, well done

[galoshers]

few would have dug a 2 foot hole so its good they kept at it

[celticspikey]

Robs completely correct probably would have been found by most machines , but I got to say any one who fails to investigate a large signal does so at there loss, I have never left any large signal until I have defiantly ruled out a hoard, proof of pudding our last rally that turned out to be a bucket took 20 minutes nearly killed me, 2 foot hole, but at least I knew my Patera hoard was a massive signal with my Sovereign and there was no way I was going to leave it without investigating.The top skillet was 2 foot down in Flint which took me 40 minutes to remove. When any one finds hoards there machines generally get some good PR it's the Deus!s turn now at last

[JBM]

I bet Alain Loubet and his XP team are over the moon.

Wait till the good news hits the telly and detecting magazines.

Not so good for the collectors as so many coins may be effected with their current market value.

I remember a few years back a single Mule Saxon coin fetching near £3000 from a collector.

Iam really pleased for the finder and his family as this could be a life changing experience for them.  Jerry.

[Chef Geoff]

OK to put a little flesh on the bones of this story the detectorist was using a Deus and got what he described as an iffy iron'ish signal so he called to a friend to check it with his machine his friend did so and told him to keep digging, his friends machine was a Fisher so you'll have to argue amongst yourselves which machine actually led to the find seeing the light of day.
I was just going to get on my soap box and rant about detectors only detecting multiple targets not one huge one but it seems that in this case I would have been completely wrong as the whole hoard (5225 coins) was contained in a lead box/bucket so whichever machine gave the ultimate "dig" signal it's proved that it can find a big bit of lead at 2 foot  
The whole hoard was excavated by the local FLO etc....Here's a pic from Facebook of the hoard still in situ after the lead top had been removed.

[DEADLOCK]

Stunning sight pity no close up pictures from of said coins.  But weldone to the finders.  And if it was jcb Jones they wold be stuck in his scrap bucket.  :-D

[Chef Geoff]

Or a big bucket of bleach

[probono]

Thanks for the extra information Chef - it's great to have some more meat on the bones of the story - and to see that other picture of the hole. I know I would have probably have given up before gettting to 2'........