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World Gold Panning Championships 2024

We invite you to the prestigious World Gold Prospecting Championships, which this year will be held in the picturesque surroundings of the Valley of the Lost Adits, right in the area of the Gold Mining Museum. This historic site is located just two kilometres west of the town of Zlaté Hory. In the article you will also find how-to guides on panning for gold.

British PAS: 1.7 million total finds, a record 53,000 finds and almost 1,400 treasures in a year

The British Museum has recently published its latest annual report on the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS), a programme for recording archaeological finds for the public. It shows that 53,490 archaeological finds were reported in 2022, including 1,378 defined treasures, the highest number ever recorded in a single year...

How it works at the hallmark office

There are several branches of the Assay Office in the Czech Republic, so you don't necessarily have to go to Prague as in my case. Anyway, the services provided should be the same in all branches.

Dating of horse shoes

Horseshoe, probably the most common iron find during forest expeditions. Most prospectors dig it up by mistake and then hang it on a tree or leave it on a stump. Yet these are some of the oldest objects commonly encountered during a search, and can be useful clues to understanding the site.

Technical principles of metal detectors

There are currently four basic principles of metal detector function. The different principles have a number of advantages and disadvantages between them. Especially in the depth of range, the ability to detect small objects, the ability to distinguish the types of metals detected and the method of use.

As I was in Scotland on the farm starving

Feel free to ask what you specifically want to know. I'm not some professional searcher myself. I report actual finds that are under the term treasure, the object must be over 300 years old, or be made of precious metal-silver, gold...

How to find the original owners of wedding rings and other gold jewellery

I had a pretty successful year this year and managed to track down and return several wedding rings.Most of the time it was a custom search where the original owners knew at least the approximate location where they lost it. This year was even successful and I report a 100% success rate :D.

Medieval medicine and prescriptions will be digitized and freely accessible to all

How did medieval physicians use pigeon feces, fox lungs or eel fat? This and much more will be revealed thanks to a new project by the University of Cambridge, which has launched the digitisation and preservation of 180 medieval medical manuscripts from its library collections. More than 8,000 medical prescriptions will be accessible to anyone via the internet. High-resolution scans of the manuscripts will be accompanied by transcripts of the texts with keyword search capabilities and detailed descriptions of the historical context.

Croatia with detector 2022

When I started these holiday articles, I made it a point to do a report every year for us Central Europeans about how to find the sea.

Why not clean the finds at all costs

There are a large number of finds in the country that bear the remains of organic material or its negatives, preserved in the corrosion products of metals. Alternatively, the archaeological finds are joined together by corrosion products. A great deal of information is lost by cleaning without professional documentation.

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