1,200 Celtic Gold Staters found in a UK hoard

[Mancave-man]

Well I agree that honesty is the only answer. However, after recording my hammered coin finds with the PAS I now find myself in the position of being asked about some coins that were found a number of years ago on a pipeline site. It appears that someone in the PAS treasure team has produced something called a heat map, which apparently is similar to an O/S contour map and shows some of my finds were found in a line indicating to the individual in the PAS treasure team that they may be a ploughed out hoard. I have to say that I have always recorded my coin finds and in this instance they were found in redeposited spoil but how on earth someone could think they form a hoard on what was an occupation site that has been dug up and years later made good is beyond me. Honesty? Maybe it doesn't pay after all!

[staters quo]

Sounds about as scientific as the PAS's "10% precious metal" theory for gilded items that clearly have about 0.5% precious metal. Has anyone ever demanded a lab test for these things I wonder.

Your "hammereds in a line" experience brings to mind the way Ley Lines were created... put enough dots on a map and you will always get straight lines! And of course Ley Lines have always been accepted by archaeologists as total poppycock.

But not for hammered coins apparently.

[staters quo]

By the way - look at the aerial photos. Any evidence of crossploughing blows their theory out of the water. I can't imagine a field has been ploughed in only one direction for ever and a day!

[Mancave-man]

By the way - look at the aerial photos. Any evidence of crossploughing blows their theory out of the water. I can't imagine a field has been ploughed in only one direction for ever and a day!

The only problem with the cross ploughing theory is that the field where the coins were found has never been ploughed however it was dug up and a pipe put into the ground. But the fields next to it all show signs of ridge and furrow.