Archaeologists do it in holes: Tales from the stratigraphy

Started by Maladict, May 27, 2016, 02:34:49 AM

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A short 7 episode BBC podcast about the real life story of the Herefordshire Viking/Saxon coin hoard, the two detectorists who found it, hid it and the subsequent police investigation/court case, worth a listen if you like archeo stuff with a touch of humour/pathos.
     
Fool's Gold - Buried Treasure

QuoteJune 2015, Herefordshire. Two Welsh detectorists - George Powell and Layton Davies - stumble upon a Viking hoard estimated to be worth up to £12m.

They could have become very rich and been celebrated as heroes in museums across the land. But instead, they began to hatch a criminal plot. Narrated by Aimee-Ffion Edwards (Detectorists/Slow Horses), this is the story of how to go from the luckiest treasure hunters on earth, to Newport's most wanted.

Narrator: Aimee-Ffion Edwards
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"