Dr Tess Machling
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#Archaeologist, #Archaeology, #researcher, #chocolate #artefact maker, #mum ~ I look at #torcs & #prehistoric #gold from a #craft perspective. My website - https://bigbookoftorcs.com
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I love #cats tooooo.....
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# Archaeologist , # Archaeology , # researcher , # chocolate # artefact maker, # mum ~ I look at # torcs & # prehistoric # gold from a # craft perspective. My website - https:// bigbookoftorcs.com Pro-trans, anti-tory... in fact, anti all hate stuff! I love # cats tooooo..... If you'd like to buy me a coffee: https:// ko-fi.com/tess317409
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@wood5y@mastodonapp.uk hope you get a trip back there soon! 😊
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# Archaeologist , # Archaeology , # researcher , # chocolate # artefact maker, # mum ~ I look at # torcs & # prehistoric # gold from a # craft perspective. My website - https:// bigbookoftorcs.com Pro-trans, anti-tory... in fact, anti all hate stuff! I love # cats tooooo..... If you'd like to buy me a coffee: https:// ko-fi.com/tess317409
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Dr Tess Machling
@tess_machling@mastodonapp.uk
# Archaeologist , # Archaeology , # researcher , # chocolate # artefact maker, # mum ~ I look at # torcs & # prehistoric # gold from a # craft perspective. My website - https:// bigbookoftorcs.com Pro-trans, anti-tory... in fact, anti all hate stuff! I love # cats tooooo..... If you'd like to buy me a coffee: https:// ko-fi.com/tess317409
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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 🏺
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-save-leicestershires-bronze-age-torc#
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Dr Tess Machling
@tess_machling@mastodonapp.uk
# Archaeologist , # Archaeology , # researcher , # chocolate # artefact maker, # mum ~ I look at # torcs & # prehistoric # gold from a # craft perspective. My website - https:// bigbookoftorcs.com Pro-trans, anti-tory... in fact, anti all hate stuff! I love # cats tooooo..... If you'd like to buy me a coffee: https:// ko-fi.com/tess317409
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Dr Tess Machling
@tess_machling@mastodonapp.uk
# Archaeologist , # Archaeology , # researcher , # chocolate # artefact maker, # mum ~ I look at # torcs & # prehistoric # gold from a # craft perspective. My website - https:// bigbookoftorcs.com Pro-trans, anti-tory... in fact, anti all hate stuff! I love # cats tooooo..... If you'd like to buy me a coffee: https:// ko-fi.com/tess317409
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Mar 09, 2026
A rather odd sibling for the Newark torc and the Netherurd terminal: Torc H7 from Snettisham.
#Archaeology #Torcs #Gold
https://bigbookoftorcs.com/2026/03/09/snettisham-torc-h7-up-close/
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Dr Tess Machling
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# Archaeologist , # Archaeology , # researcher , # chocolate # artefact maker, # mum ~ I look at # torcs & # prehistoric # gold from a # craft perspective. My website - https:// bigbookoftorcs.com Pro-trans, anti-tory... in fact, anti all hate stuff! I love # cats tooooo..... If you'd like to buy me a coffee: https:// ko-fi.com/tess317409
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Dr Tess Machling
@tess_machling@mastodonapp.uk
# Archaeologist , # Archaeology , # researcher , # chocolate # artefact maker, # mum ~ I look at # torcs & # prehistoric # gold from a # craft perspective. My website - https:// bigbookoftorcs.com Pro-trans, anti-tory... in fact, anti all hate stuff! I love # cats tooooo..... If you'd like to buy me a coffee: https:// ko-fi.com/tess317409
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Feb 25, 2026
“I’m just trying to save history for the local community and future generations. And I’ve always been very happy to donate my finds to the local museum for others to experience and enjoy.”
Yay for Mr Nicolas!
#Treasure #Detecting #Archaeology 🏺
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/metal-detectorists-find-2000-year-33485357
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# Archaeologist , # Archaeology , # researcher , # chocolate # artefact maker, # mum ~ I look at # torcs & # prehistoric # gold from a # craft perspective. My website - https:// bigbookoftorcs.com Pro-trans, anti-tory... in fact, anti all hate stuff! I love # cats tooooo..... If you'd like to buy me a coffee: https:// ko-fi.com/tess317409
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Dr Tess Machling
@tess_machling@mastodonapp.uk
# Archaeologist , # Archaeology , # researcher , # chocolate # artefact maker, # mum ~ I look at # torcs & # prehistoric # gold from a # craft perspective. My website - https:// bigbookoftorcs.com Pro-trans, anti-tory... in fact, anti all hate stuff! I love # cats tooooo..... If you'd like to buy me a coffee: https:// ko-fi.com/tess317409
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Feb 24, 2026
£300,000 to buy 2 stunning pieces of prehistoric goldwork from 4 people.
So far, c.200 lovely people have given their hard earned cash to rescue these important finds - here's to them!
#Archaeology #Detecting 🏺
https://www.stokemuseums.org.uk/pmag/the-ellastone-fastener/
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-save-leicestershires-bronze-age-torc#
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# Archaeologist , # Archaeology , # researcher , # chocolate # artefact maker, # mum ~ I look at # torcs & # prehistoric # gold from a # craft perspective. My website - https:// bigbookoftorcs.com Pro-trans, anti-tory... in fact, anti all hate stuff! I love # cats tooooo..... If you'd like to buy me a coffee: https:// ko-fi.com/tess317409
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Dr Tess Machling
@tess_machling@mastodonapp.uk
# Archaeologist , # Archaeology , # researcher , # chocolate # artefact maker, # mum ~ I look at # torcs & # prehistoric # gold from a # craft perspective. My website - https:// bigbookoftorcs.com Pro-trans, anti-tory... in fact, anti all hate stuff! I love # cats tooooo..... If you'd like to buy me a coffee: https:// ko-fi.com/tess317409
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Feb 23, 2026
"If the total of £150,000 is not raised, the British Museum has an option to buy the torc, or the finder and owner of the site are able to put it up for sale to the highest bidder."
Grim.
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-save-leicestershires-bronze-age-torc#
#Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting 🏺
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c747n8kd4y7o?app-referrer=deep-link
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# Archaeologist , # Archaeology , # researcher , # chocolate # artefact maker, # mum ~ I look at # torcs & # prehistoric # gold from a # craft perspective. My website - https:// bigbookoftorcs.com Pro-trans, anti-tory... in fact, anti all hate stuff! I love # cats tooooo..... If you'd like to buy me a coffee: https:// ko-fi.com/tess317409
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@TimWardCam@c.im well done you... and yes, it's an awful illness.
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# Archaeologist , # Archaeology , # researcher , # chocolate # artefact maker, # mum ~ I look at # torcs & # prehistoric # gold from a # craft perspective. My website - https:// bigbookoftorcs.com Pro-trans, anti-tory... in fact, anti all hate stuff! I love # cats tooooo..... If you'd like to buy me a coffee: https:// ko-fi.com/tess317409
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Dr Tess Machling
@tess_machling@mastodonapp.uk
# Archaeologist , # Archaeology , # researcher , # chocolate # artefact maker, # mum ~ I look at # torcs & # prehistoric # gold from a # craft perspective. My website - https:// bigbookoftorcs.com Pro-trans, anti-tory... in fact, anti all hate stuff! I love # cats tooooo..... If you'd like to buy me a coffee: https:// ko-fi.com/tess317409
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Feb 21, 2026
I wonder which of these 25 ingots @findsorguk.bsky.social (all were returned to finder...) ended up being melted down?
There's very few truly undiagnostic finds - most are awaiting a person or technique to decode their secrets...
#Treasure #Detecting #Archaeology 🏺
https://finds.org.uk/database/images/index/sort/updated/objecttype/INGOT/imageRights/Isle+of+Wight+Council
Text from: https://spectator.com/article/why-a-set-of-gold-coins-have-divided-british-archeologists/
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# Archaeologist , # Archaeology , # researcher , # chocolate # artefact maker, # mum ~ I look at # torcs & # prehistoric # gold from a # craft perspective. My website - https:// bigbookoftorcs.com Pro-trans, anti-tory... in fact, anti all hate stuff! I love # cats tooooo..... If you'd like to buy me a coffee: https:// ko-fi.com/tess317409
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Dr Tess Machling
@tess_machling@mastodonapp.uk
# Archaeologist , # Archaeology , # researcher , # chocolate # artefact maker, # mum ~ I look at # torcs & # prehistoric # gold from a # craft perspective. My website - https:// bigbookoftorcs.com Pro-trans, anti-tory... in fact, anti all hate stuff! I love # cats tooooo..... If you'd like to buy me a coffee: https:// ko-fi.com/tess317409
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Feb 21, 2026
I disagree with Mike in his conclusions, and the archaeological 'worth' of many detected finds, but it was good to have a chat this week, and to see the raw £ finally getting some coverage!
#Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure 🏺
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Dr Tess Machling
@tess_machling@mastodonapp.uk
# Archaeologist , # Archaeology , # researcher , # chocolate # artefact maker, # mum ~ I look at # torcs & # prehistoric # gold from a # craft perspective. My website - https:// bigbookoftorcs.com Pro-trans, anti-tory... in fact, anti all hate stuff! I love # cats tooooo..... If you'd like to buy me a coffee: https:// ko-fi.com/tess317409
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Feb 17, 2026
Quick reminder to us GenXers or older -
"If you were born before 1970 and haven't had #measles, mumps or rubella (german measles) or vaccines...you can ask your GP for MMR vaccine."
We didn't all catch this stuff when we were littlies, so we're not all protected!
https://www.nhs.uk/vaccinations/mmr-vaccine/
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# Archaeologist , # Archaeology , # researcher , # chocolate # artefact maker, # mum ~ I look at # torcs & # prehistoric # gold from a # craft perspective. My website - https:// bigbookoftorcs.com Pro-trans, anti-tory... in fact, anti all hate stuff! I love # cats tooooo..... If you'd like to buy me a coffee: https:// ko-fi.com/tess317409
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Dr Tess Machling
@tess_machling@mastodonapp.uk
# Archaeologist , # Archaeology , # researcher , # chocolate # artefact maker, # mum ~ I look at # torcs & # prehistoric # gold from a # craft perspective. My website - https:// bigbookoftorcs.com Pro-trans, anti-tory... in fact, anti all hate stuff! I love # cats tooooo..... If you'd like to buy me a coffee: https:// ko-fi.com/tess317409
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Feb 15, 2026
This is what happens when 'treasure' can't be bought by a museum - the hoard has been broken up into individual auction lots & will disappear into many different hands, some almost certainly overseas.
When do we start saying enough is enough??
https://www.noonans.co.uk/auctions/calendar/898/catalogue/?specialcollectionpart_id=1721
#Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting 🏺
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr033kk7zxo?app-referrer=search
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# Archaeologist , # Archaeology , # researcher , # chocolate # artefact maker, # mum ~ I look at # torcs & # prehistoric # gold from a # craft perspective. My website - https:// bigbookoftorcs.com Pro-trans, anti-tory... in fact, anti all hate stuff! I love # cats tooooo..... If you'd like to buy me a coffee: https:// ko-fi.com/tess317409
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Dr Tess Machling
@tess_machling@mastodonapp.uk
# Archaeologist , # Archaeology , # researcher , # chocolate # artefact maker, # mum ~ I look at # torcs & # prehistoric # gold from a # craft perspective. My website - https:// bigbookoftorcs.com Pro-trans, anti-tory... in fact, anti all hate stuff! I love # cats tooooo..... If you'd like to buy me a coffee: https:// ko-fi.com/tess317409
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Feb 14, 2026
This is a really important find - unique in fact. It has slight similarities to a torc from Moulsford (now in Reading Museum).
I've been looking at photos of this torc for a bit and I am pretty certain this wasn't ever a single strand torc - I think it was made as a triple strand with a piece now missing in one of the strands (hence the hammered ends on the broken neck ring).
One of those things that needs researching - but if it can't be bought by Leicestershire Museum Service it'll be given back to the finder and landowner, likely to be sold, possibly exported. Legally they could even melt it down...
I hate doing this, but we really REALLY need to rescue this one.
"If enough is not raised, the future of the torc is uncertain...and could even end up in the hands of a private collector in the UK or abroad. If this were to happen the object could effectively disappear from sight."
Donation link here: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-save-leicestershires-bronze-age-torc
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# Archaeologist , # Archaeology , # researcher , # chocolate # artefact maker, # mum ~ I look at # torcs & # prehistoric # gold from a # craft perspective. My website - https:// bigbookoftorcs.com Pro-trans, anti-tory... in fact, anti all hate stuff! I love # cats tooooo..... If you'd like to buy me a coffee: https:// ko-fi.com/tess317409
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@grb090423@mastodon.social @pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green @markhburton@mstdn.social @junesim63@mstdn.social @samsterby@mastodon.green @ScienceCommunicator@mastodon.social @DoubleTreble@cupoftea.social @greenhousethinktank@greennet.social @MelSedds@toot.wales @Simon318ppm@mastodon.sdf.org @corin_ja@mastodon.social I don't know, sorry. I don't tend to use Mastodon as much now and gained most followers in the early days when everyone was leaving twitter.
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# Archaeologist , # Archaeology , # researcher , # chocolate # artefact maker, # mum ~ I look at # torcs & # prehistoric # gold from a # craft perspective. My website - https:// bigbookoftorcs.com Pro-trans, anti-tory... in fact, anti all hate stuff! I love # cats tooooo..... If you'd like to buy me a coffee: https:// ko-fi.com/tess317409
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Dr Tess Machling
@tess_machling@mastodonapp.uk
# Archaeologist , # Archaeology , # researcher , # chocolate # artefact maker, # mum ~ I look at # torcs & # prehistoric # gold from a # craft perspective. My website - https:// bigbookoftorcs.com Pro-trans, anti-tory... in fact, anti all hate stuff! I love # cats tooooo..... If you'd like to buy me a coffee: https:// ko-fi.com/tess317409
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Feb 10, 2026
It was such a pleasure to talk to Geraldine from the Museums Journal about the various issues associated with 'treasure', detecting and dwindling museum resources...
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# Archaeologist , # Archaeology , # researcher , # chocolate # artefact maker, # mum ~ I look at # torcs & # prehistoric # gold from a # craft perspective. My website - https:// bigbookoftorcs.com Pro-trans, anti-tory... in fact, anti all hate stuff! I love # cats tooooo..... If you'd like to buy me a coffee: https:// ko-fi.com/tess317409
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# Archaeologist , # Archaeology , # researcher , # chocolate # artefact maker, # mum ~ I look at # torcs & # prehistoric # gold from a # craft perspective. My website - https:// bigbookoftorcs.com Pro-trans, anti-tory... in fact, anti all hate stuff! I love # cats tooooo..... If you'd like to buy me a coffee: https:// ko-fi.com/tess317409
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Feb 10, 2026
'more than 45,000 members of the public had contributed to the cause'
... and all to pay the detectorist and landowner for a lucky find!!!
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# Archaeologist , # Archaeology , # researcher , # chocolate # artefact maker, # mum ~ I look at # torcs & # prehistoric # gold from a # craft perspective. My website - https:// bigbookoftorcs.com Pro-trans, anti-tory... in fact, anti all hate stuff! I love # cats tooooo..... If you'd like to buy me a coffee: https:// ko-fi.com/tess317409
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Dr Tess Machling
@tess_machling@mastodonapp.uk
# Archaeologist , # Archaeology , # researcher , # chocolate # artefact maker, # mum ~ I look at # torcs & # prehistoric # gold from a # craft perspective. My website - https:// bigbookoftorcs.com Pro-trans, anti-tory... in fact, anti all hate stuff! I love # cats tooooo..... If you'd like to buy me a coffee: https:// ko-fi.com/tess317409
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Feb 05, 2026
I rather liked this... not the usual type of story we get about things from fields - it's gentle and thoughtful.
Top marks for getting it in Farmer's Weekly too...
It ain't all 'treasure'...
#Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting 🏺
https://www.fwi.co.uk/farm-life/ancient-objects-uncovered-beneath-britains-farming-fields
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# Archaeologist , # Archaeology , # researcher , # chocolate # artefact maker, # mum ~ I look at # torcs & # prehistoric # gold from a # craft perspective. My website - https:// bigbookoftorcs.com Pro-trans, anti-tory... in fact, anti all hate stuff! I love # cats tooooo..... If you'd like to buy me a coffee: https:// ko-fi.com/tess317409
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Jan 31, 2026
@ArchaeoIain@archaeo.social yup... and also no talk of context, landscapes etc etc
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# Archaeologist , # Archaeology , # researcher , # chocolate # artefact maker, # mum ~ I look at # torcs & # prehistoric # gold from a # craft perspective. My website - https:// bigbookoftorcs.com Pro-trans, anti-tory... in fact, anti all hate stuff! I love # cats tooooo..... If you'd like to buy me a coffee: https:// ko-fi.com/tess317409
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Dr Tess Machling
@tess_machling@mastodonapp.uk
# Archaeologist , # Archaeology , # researcher , # chocolate # artefact maker, # mum ~ I look at # torcs & # prehistoric # gold from a # craft perspective. My website - https:// bigbookoftorcs.com Pro-trans, anti-tory... in fact, anti all hate stuff! I love # cats tooooo..... If you'd like to buy me a coffee: https:// ko-fi.com/tess317409
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Jan 30, 2026
450,000 artefacts from the HS2 excavations *alone*.
So the next time detectorists tell you they find everything archaeologically important - they don't. 😝
#Archaeology 🏺 #Detecting #Treasure
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# Archaeologist , # Archaeology , # researcher , # chocolate # artefact maker, # mum ~ I look at # torcs & # prehistoric # gold from a # craft perspective. My website - https:// bigbookoftorcs.com Pro-trans, anti-tory... in fact, anti all hate stuff! I love # cats tooooo..... If you'd like to buy me a coffee: https:// ko-fi.com/tess317409
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# Archaeologist , # Archaeology , # researcher , # chocolate # artefact maker, # mum ~ I look at # torcs & # prehistoric # gold from a # craft perspective. My website - https:// bigbookoftorcs.com Pro-trans, anti-tory... in fact, anti all hate stuff! I love # cats tooooo..... If you'd like to buy me a coffee: https:// ko-fi.com/tess317409
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Jan 30, 2026
This is *such* an important find & will form significant collection w/ Leekfrith Iron Age torcs & Staffs AS hoard gold as examples of gold through time.
But we really REALLY shouldn't be held ransom by finders & landowners for such pieces...
#Archaeology 🏺 #Torcs
https://www.stoke.gov.uk/news/article/2004/%C2%A3150%2C000_appeal_launched_to_keep_major_bronze_age_gold_treasure_in_staffordshire?fbclid=Iwb21leAPpL1NjbGNrA-kvCmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHvONTqOvwZQ61ORpZauvFe-i63hVOgqVtiIUobcnpC9uwV8s3hNG-oXG4Imn_aem_w7Lxc1WjJTriqU-9AbLPPg
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Dr Tess Machling
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# Archaeologist , # Archaeology , # researcher , # chocolate # artefact maker, # mum ~ I look at # torcs & # prehistoric # gold from a # craft perspective. My website - https:// bigbookoftorcs.com Pro-trans, anti-tory... in fact, anti all hate stuff! I love # cats tooooo..... If you'd like to buy me a coffee: https:// ko-fi.com/tess317409
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Jan 20, 2026
The PAS report for 2024 is out. 79,616 finds were reported (up 7% from 2023's 74,506) 1540 Treasure finds (up 12% from 2023's 1358) So... numbers are still rising at alarming rates.
https://finds.org.uk/documents/annualreports/2024.pdf
Only 4238 finders are reporting to PAS (up from 2023's 3877... but considering the huge boom in the numbers of those detecting, this is still only 1-10% of the number of detectorists in UK). AKA we're still in a mess and it's only getting worse...
Interestingly, there is *NO INFO* in the 2024 PAS report (unlike the 2023 report) regarding numbers of finds being exported!! Why is that?? Hmmmm...
TLDR All numbers are still increasing and the picture I've been highlighting over the last few months isn't getting any better...
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Dr Tess Machling
@tess_machling@mastodonapp.uk
# Archaeologist , # Archaeology , # researcher , # chocolate # artefact maker, # mum ~ I look at # torcs & # prehistoric # gold from a # craft perspective. My website - https:// bigbookoftorcs.com Pro-trans, anti-tory... in fact, anti all hate stuff! I love # cats tooooo..... If you'd like to buy me a coffee: https:// ko-fi.com/tess317409
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Dr Tess Machling
@tess_machling@mastodonapp.uk
# Archaeologist , # Archaeology , # researcher , # chocolate # artefact maker, # mum ~ I look at # torcs & # prehistoric # gold from a # craft perspective. My website - https:// bigbookoftorcs.com Pro-trans, anti-tory... in fact, anti all hate stuff! I love # cats tooooo..... If you'd like to buy me a coffee: https:// ko-fi.com/tess317409
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Jan 14, 2026
One Show tonight, 13 mins. All about treasure hunting.
...& what did the arch present have to say?
"Some objects you have to report by law, mostly gold & silver objects, but other objects [in] UK law you don't have to record"
I give up... 😔
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