Just thought of an awkward situation !!

[GREGGOWREX]

Hi Guys and Girls
I am lucky enough to have 4 permissions (sorry to those who havent ).....and when I finish the outing ...I normally put the finds (non ferrous)in a clean bucket at the side of my comp for cleaning at a later date .....this bucket could contain ...a few trips to different places ......now ...what if I cleaned something and found it was really really valuable ......I probably wouldnt have a clue what permission I found it on ........to tell the flo or coroner ....or the farmer......

What would happen in this scenario ....any ideas


PS...wasnt sure where to post

[galaxystar]

Only way I could think of would be to use bags and label them?

[galaxystar]

Would they be able to tell where it was from?

I bet this happens all the time.

[Allectus]

Reckon you need to use four buckets in future Greg!

A

[g3dd35]

your screw'd lol i would start taking pics as you find, my camara phone is handy as it takes gps location when you take the pic,

[coal digger]

I have 3 permissions so i have 3 plastic containrs with draws in to represent each field on each permission,each draw has x y z etc wrote on them and ive named each field in my head so when i get back from eg permission 1 on field x i put the finds in the draw,its not an exact pinpoint but narrows it down to a field and i can usualy remember where on the field i found an item,cd.

[chefphones]

You would quickly learn to sort your finds out when you get home and ditch the bucket lol

Back in the 80's I found what I thought was a piece of lead, grey in colour and encrusted with sand. The only reason it never reached the scrap bucket was it shape as it resembled a big cat, so it was washed (still grey) and left on the kitchen windowsill. Well....two weeks passed and my girlfriend of the time asked if I was going to "do anything with this manky bit of metal" or she would put it in the bin. I thought I would just try a wire brush on it to see what it was made of as it wouldn't bend as lead should, and low and behold the metal was very "orange" in colour but seemed too heavy for brass.
So down the jewellers I went half embarrassed to ask if this lump of metal was gold as I expected it to be a copper alloy
It turned out to be 21g of 24ct gold....wow, and with that it was off to the museum (pre PAS) the curator examined it and declared that he thought it was probably a spill from casting made by a travelling goldsmith and probably iron age in origin (?) The sand and muck were not on it but in it.
THEN....he asked, where I had found it.....umm? urrrr? welllll? I did manage to narrow it down to just two locations where I had detected and there was sand, unfortunately these were 90 miles apart and the thought of more bits lying there waiting, haunts me to this day

[ianexplorer]

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not just that but what happens if you rummage through your finds and find something really old and valuable but it is now 4 weeks later could the FLO be able to tell if it had been out of the ground for longer than the 2 weeks period that you are aloud before having to hand it in



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Glen [/quote]

I wondered that, but just looked at the tresure act and it says you must notify your find either within14 days of the day on which you made the find or within 14 days of the day on which you realised that the find might be Treasure

different buckets for different permissions is the way though i reckon.

[Christoph1945]

Hi Greg,

thanks for posting that little gem. Although I don't have any permissions yet, you have prompted me to organise my self better and keep track of my finds.

Chris

[Danzigman]

Hi Greg.. Sharpen your skills in the ID Section.. And you will know straigth away when something needs to be further investigated..
All I can say - GPS And zip bag.. the way to go..
John.

[GREGGOWREX]

Things go in the scrap bucket and can accumalate over some amount of time .....months even up to a year .......it has been known by some experienced forum members to sort their scrap out to weigh it in ....and come across a valuable item .....that they had dismissed hastily as scrap ....look at liamnolan .....a roman coin fell into his scrap pile ....and as far as I know its still there lololol

[fishy]

Have you got a photo Greg?

[roadwarriormax]

Things go in the scrap bucket and can accumalate over some amount of time .....months even up to a year .......it has been known by some experienced forum members to sort their scrap out to weigh it in ....and come across a valuable item .....that they had dismissed hastily as scrap ....look at liamnolan .....a roman coin fell into his scrap pile ....and as far as I know its still there lololol

its happend to me gregg ,what i thought was a box standard knackerd old button went into the scrap tin ,while sorting the rubbish out ,i noticed the old button was a roman coin ,its easily done and have you ever heard of anyone being prosucuted for not declaring within that 14 days .i have,nt ,and how would they know anyway, how long the find has been out the ground ,at the end of the day the flo only has the detectorist word for it anyway.

[GREGGOWREX]

Things go in the scrap bucket and can accumalate over some amount of time .....months even up to a year .......it has been known by some experienced forum members to sort their scrap out to weigh it in ....and come across a valuable item .....that they had dismissed hastily as scrap ....look at liamnolan .....a roman coin fell into his scrap pile ....and as far as I know its still there lololol

its happend to me gregg ,what i thought was a box standard knackerd old button went into the scrap tin ,while sorting the rubbish out ,i noticed the old button was a roman coin ,its easily done and have you ever heard of anyone being prosucuted for not declaring within that 14 days .i have,nt ,and how would they know anyway, how long the find has been out the ground ,at the end of the day the flo only has the detectorist word for it anyway.

lolol but if it was valuable .........would you know what permission you got it from