GOLD!! GOLD!! ITS GOLD I TELL YER!

[trowelhead]

Yes it?s the old adage from the bloke in the pub on finding out you?re an archaeologist

?Whats the best thing you`ve ever found?

And indeed that is my question and we are talking treasure here! Not sites, Flint or anything Billy Blond would not understand but proper TREASURE!

Go on let go and boast about your finest bits of treasure, hey we are all (well almost) anon here so go hog wild!

[Curator Kid]

Does a life-size Roman marble statue count as treasure? Got one of those once. Some gold earrings too - in-situ on a skelly.

[trowelhead]

Yeh Marble, good, shiney probably fetch a few squid on the open market very acceptable indeed.

[Post-Med Potterer]

One of the first sites I dug out of Uni at the very beginning of the 1990s was at a place called Snettisham in Norfolk, where I worked under the direction of Ian Stead of the British Museum. No further explanation needed I am sure to such a learned bunch as frequent this site. Nothing I have ever found since has come even remotely close to this gold-tastic experience.

[Cautionary Tale]

I've not been so lucky on the treasure front, but the people troweling right next to me:

1. Lead shield with inscription
2. Hoard of Roman coins
3. Wall of painted plaster

And yes I know the last ones not treaure, but it p****d me off just the same.

(I really have worked in the field)

[Real Job]

The most 'valuable' thing I have ever found is a rather poor twisted copper torc.

Whenever machine drivers/foremen/banksmen ask - as they inevitably do - what is the best thing I have ever found, I tell them that it is very rare to find anything valuable... thus excusing my own lack of gold discoveries!

By the sound of it though, I have been talking through my hat. Have the majority of archaeologists found some gold (or other valuable-sounding thing)? Is there a north-south divide (I have not worked much in the south)? Or is it just me [:0]?

"So does your partner have a real job?" Asked of me by an interviewer for a supervisor post at a well known unit not that many years ago...

[Dave-Bonner]

I rather like the flint core re-fit that came out of 3 spits on the site I'm working on at the moment....does that make me sad.

I'd quite like a nice meaty polished stone axehead next, so if anyones got a neo site on the go....!

Gizza job!!!!! ....please!!!!!

[sniper]

found a medieval arrowhead t'other day, along with a bone knife handle and some sewing needles, all on the same day. Usually not quite so lucky with stuff. Still annoyed about wonderful leather scabbards/shoes/belts, fabrics, wood objects, and whole med jugs filled cesspit that a digging partner got to do last year while I had to stay and clean tile hearths for weeks...

++ i spend my days rummaging around in dead people ++

[troll]

Good grief! Not The David Bonner who runs linear projects surely?

[Dave-Bonner]

quote:Originally posted by troll

Good grief! Not The David Bonner who runs linear projects surely?

Lol!!!! Oh No! I thought about using that as my signature but decided against it. When I worked for the other David Bonner he said something about it being a good job we hadn't exploded on sight - parallel dimensions converging or something...

Gizza job!!!!! ....please!!!!!