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Steve Rice has been Metal Detecting for over 20 years. He is a member and past chairman of the South Lancs and Cheshire Metal Detecting Club.

Steve will endeavour to keep everyone up to date with his finds (and other members' finds) as well as the hobby in general. He is also a keen Coin Collector and Historian and will keep you upto date with this also.

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1836 Haltwhistle Hoard

Posted by ricey on April 5, 2007 1:53 AM | 

In the mid 1830's while some workmen were quarrying stone for the
Directors of the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, on the top of Boreum, a
high hill in the township of Thorngrafton and Parish of Haltwhistle in
Northumberland, one of them found a copper vessel containing 63 coins, 3 of
them gold and 60 copper.

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