Henry III

[craigy 362]

last trip out with the detector gave me a cut half of Henry III Bury,  and a nice piece of hack gold

Edited December 13, 2017 by craigy

[will1976 235]

6 minutes ago, craigy said:

last trip out with the detector gave me a cut half of Henry III Bury,  and a nice piece of hack gold

A nice half penny. Could you tell me what 'hack' gold is? Its not a term I've heard of before

[craigy 362]

18 minutes ago, will1976 said:

A nice half penny. Could you tell me what 'hack' gold is? Its not a term I've heard of before

gold thats been hacked off a bigger lump, not weighed it yet but it was probably used for payment etc, its high carot, you can see the cuts made to trim it to a certain weight or bits cut off to make a weight

[jelida 1,320]

Do have the hack gold checked through the PAS/treasure procedure. A mate and I found some a couple of years ago, still going through the process but analysis has shown a 99% probability that it is of Bronze Age date, much earlier than we had thought.

Jerry

[will1976 235]

2 minutes ago, craigy said:

gold thats been hacked off a bigger lump, not weighed it yet but it was probably used for payment etc, its high carot, you can see the cuts made to trim it to a certain weight or bits cut off to make a weight

Thanks for that, always good to learn.

[craigy 362]

6 minutes ago, will1976 said:

Thanks for that, always good to learn.

my first piece in 12 years of detecting, has been reported under the treasure act as it potentially could be over 300 years old

 

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/24/section/1

Edited December 13, 2017 by craigy

[will1976 235]

3 minutes ago, craigy said:

my first piece in 12 years of detecting, has been reported under the treasure act as it potentially could be over 300 years old

That's pretty old, how long before you hear back from them?

[copper123 1,514]

There was more gold in this country than people realised till those darn romans started sending the stuff back to rome