Dozens of treasures found in gardens during coronavirus clampdown

England's "Lockdown" during the Coronacrisis forced hundreds of thousands of Britons to adjust their interests and hobbies so that they could enjoy them at home. For treasure hunters, it meant an opportunity to do a really honest search of their own back gardens. The result is many amazing reported treasures...

As outdoor detecting was banned across the board, thousands of detectorists devoted themselves to searching in their own gardens. Thus, over the past few months, a significant number of informationally valuable artefacts have been found on the properties of detectorists, as well as gardeners, such as medieval silver coin in a garden in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, a stone arrowhead in Chithurst, Sussex, and fragments of Roman pottery in Wymeswold, Leicestershire.

Unique artefacts handed in and reported included a medieval gold ring, found as well as a silver coin in Herefordshire. A bronze belt buckle in the shape of a snake was also found in the same area. Perhaps most interesting to archaeologists is a complete Bronze Age/Neolithic grain marker at Bradford in the WestYorkshire, and also the rare discovery of a sandstone stone with an ogham script inscription in the earliest so-called "

Ogam script originated in Ireland, where it was used mainly in the 4th to 8th centuries, when it was completely replaced by the Latin alphabet. The simple alphabet of lines and lines was written in four groups of five characters in the edges of stone or wooden prisms horizontally and vertically. The origin of the script is still not reliably confirmed; some experts believe that it is based on the simple sign language of the priests, while others associate ogam with runic signs. In any case, this find is one of only about 4 hundred ogam writings found so far in the whole of Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

According to archaeologist and PAS liaison officer Peter Reavill, more and more people are spending their free time playingdents and has therefore long urged lay people in particular to take note of the objects they occasionally find in the soil: "With so many people devoting so much time to their gardens, there have been some really interesting finds. I've seen various tobacco pipes, fragments of ancient pottery and even prehistoric flint tools. Unfortunately, people often don't realise the archaeological significance of what they find. While the finds may not immediately be valuable treasures, they often tell something very interesting about local history."

Roman Němec

ring from Herefordshire

piskovcite stone with an ogam script notation

snake-shaped belt buckle from the early modern period

complete graining

a stone arrowhead from the Neolithic

medieval ring

Sources: expressandstar.com, thesun.co.uk, todayheadline.co