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the [url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/staffordshire/8272058.stm ]staffordshire treasure trove[/url], was found by a guy walking across a field carrying a metal detector and no doubt capable of digging. he was on disability benefits, obviously as he's unfit for work....
my mate used to do that (treasure hunting - not claiming benefits when he could work) and he had a right pile of crap in his lounge but some of it was very interesting like roman belt buckles, old (really really) old coins etc rings etc. All roman. They must have been a clumsy lot loosing all that stuff.
no doubt capable of digging. he was on disability benefits, obviously as he's unfit for work....
I have a friend who is on disability benefit. She suffers from hebephrenic schizophrenia. She desperately wants to work, and has made many attempts to do so (one attempt lasted over a year) but she doesn't normally get to the 'job offer' stage.
Employers just don't seem to want to give her a chance. She is now looking at doing voluntary work with elderly people.
But she could definitely dig a hole (see is very keen on her allotment) and she could hold a metal detector.
And she rides a bike btw.
What was this guy on disability benefit for ?
How do you know he was on disability benefits there is no mention in the article?
that's because it's the BBC.
Most other news outlets make a pretty point of pointing it our. either to provoke the masses (daily mail) or make you feel sorry for him (guardian)
It's mentioned in a Guardian article MrsPoddy (but there's no mention of what his disability is - patient confidentiality I presume)
Although iDave doesn't strike me as a Guardian reader.
never bought a daily mail, only read the guardian. i made no judgment about the guys condition. i threw it out there for the masses to chew on. it did strike me that the skills he used to find his gold, could probably be transferred to some form of paid work - that's all
There's that bizarre treasure rule as well where the government can declare stuff 'treasure' and you have to give it to them.
it just means that it has to be offered for sale to the national museums first and is only available for private sale if they do not wish to purchase it, you still get money for it i believe
There's that bizarre treasure rule as well where the government can declare stuff 'treasure' and you have to give it to them.
That's already happened in this case, although it's coroner who decides
Take it you didn't see the pictures of Katy Perry's "boob adjuster" in the papers.
Now [i]that[/i] is nice work.
my brother does metal detecting in his spare time, so does a colleague, it has nothing to do with their jobs.
So why should the fact that he is on disability benefit mean that he cannot do metal detecting in his spare time?
Does being on disability benefit mean you aren't allow to do anything but sit at home all day?
Muppet/dailymail type comment.
I originally trained as an archaeologist, and usually I take a pretty dim view of metal detectorists... but this was an absolutely [url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/sep/24/staffordshire-anglo-saxon-gold-find ]staggering[/url] find.
Great reference to [i]Beowulf[/i] by the senior PAS advisor:
[i]"Dr Leahy ended the presentation by quoting a stanza of Beowulf, which describes how the warrior king is buried with his treasure: “They let the ground keep that ancestral treasure, gold under gravel, gone to earth and as useless to men now as it ever was.” He added: “Well, it’s not useless now.”[/i]