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Comment on Recent discovery of a Roman Coin Hoard in the Shrewsbury Area by jygco

jygco — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:29:32 +0000

I always get excited when I find an old coin or relic of some sort, I can only imagine how Mr. Davies felt when he found the pot full of coins. A word to the wise always ask for permission before treasure hunting in someones property remember all property belongs to someone and even in this time and age on enlightment you still may be chased away by some land owner with a shot gun.

Comment on Leveraging geodata for enriched records by w3gconf » Blog Archive » Veni, Vidi, Geo – A W3G Wrap Up

w3gconf » Blog Archive » Veni, Vidi, Geo – A W3G Wrap Up — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 10:05:13 +0000

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Comment on Digging for Britain’s viewing figures by Charles Bullock

Charles Bullock — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 19:42:30 +0000

A period per show was probably a tough call to pull off, however for us lesser academic mortals Alice Roberts pulled it off brilliantly. Any archaeoligical program will always be compared to the Time Team with a tried and tested format. So can it sustain a period per show? Probably if the period really packs a punch . And will it rely on Alice Roberts as the presenter,Seemed relaxed and at ease with the camera, why not!

Comment on Six month review of new website performance by Katharine

Katharine — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 18:22:34 +0000

Bravo! Excellent summary of excellent progress for the PAS Database.

Comment on Ordnance Survey 1:50 000 Gazetteer import and reuse by Six month review of new website performance « Central Unit blogs

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Comment on My experience of self-recording on the database by Rob Webley

Rob Webley — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 08:50:58 +0000

These records are a credit to your dedication and training, and set the bar very high for other self-recorders to follow! I shall be letting my finders know about this post so that they have a better idea of what’s involved.

Keep up the good work!

Rob (Hampshire FLO)

Comment on Digging for Britain – BBC2 by ian

ian — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 17:08:46 +0000

The word at 49:30 in program 2 is “hominins”: Alice says it carefully enough that it’s clearly neither “homonyms” nor “hominids”. Sadly, the person doing the subtitles wasn’t listening hard enough (or, like you, didn’t recognize the word), and used “hominids”; correct, but less precise.

Comment on Digging for Britain – BBC2 by Simon Parsons

Simon Parsons — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:46:53 +0000

I think there’s an undercurrent of poor quality control in this series. It’s not just detectorists that get bashed.

If my ears were not deceiving me, in the most recent episode Alice used the words “Early Homonyms” instead of “Early Homonids” at one point (over a background of chalk cliffs and the sea, probably the Seven Sisters).
I edit reports for other people and am painfully aware of the existence of homonyms but I didn’t think they ever bashed rocks together….

Comment on Digging for Britain – BBC2 by Peter Halford

Peter Halford — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:20:25 +0000

I have to agree with what has been said here already. I was at this rally as well.

If Danny hadn’t found this with his metal detector it would probably have been destroyed by ploughing in time, as there was no indication of habitation that would have triggered an archaeological dig that would have rescued it.

Without metal detectorists, most of the Treasure that has been found in the last forty years would still be in the ground and gradually deteriorating due to farming practices.

It is a huge kick in the teeth to the young lad that he is not featured or even credited as the finder of this remarkable object.

Comment on Digging for Britain – BBC2 by corinne

corinne — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 13:24:58 +0000

I know Dan – it would make a programme just whats on the editors floor. It doesn’t help you guys when something as good as this isn’t credited to the finder and causes bad feeling.