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3,000-year-old Bronze Age axe recovered by Gardaí

  • 08-04-2019 11:54am
    #1
    fiacha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 794 ✭✭✭


    Nice find on social media.


    Obviously no details of how long it was in the finders possession, but it appears to be a fine example of why we can't be trusted to go poking around in fields :)


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  • #2
    Dr Strange
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,427 ✭✭✭Dr Strange


    The comments section on this NMI post on FB and the article on the journal.ie should be interesting!


  • #3
    Turner
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,935 Mod ✭✭✭✭Turner


    Alot of giving out about the people who found it.

    About how they broke the law by using a metal detector.

    If they had not, this thing would not have been discovered.


  • #4
    partyguinness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,203 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    Better late than never I suppose for our boys in blue.


  • #5
    Markcheese
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,844 ✭✭✭Markcheese


    Turner wrote: »
    Alot of giving out about the people who found it.

    About how they broke the law by using a metal detector.

    If they had not, this thing would not have been discovered.

    True, it would be still in situ,
    This wasn't handed in to the museum, it was in the finders personal possession,
    Don't yet know where it was found either, may well have been at a national monument, or known historical site...

    Slava ukraini 🇺🇦



  • #6
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,606 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Turner wrote: »
    Alot of giving out about the people who found it.

    About how they broke the law by using a metal detector.

    If they had not, this thing would not have been discovered.

    There's context to finding these things the proper way though by historians. As of now it's just a random axe head with no story. Might have been discovered down the line by someone else who unearthed something far greater.


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  • #7
    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    It’s legal to be a dectorist right? You just have to declare the find.


  • #8
    fiacha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 794 ✭✭✭fiacha


    Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »
    It’s legal to be a dectorist right? You just have to declare the find.

    Link to FAQ about this topic on the National Museum website.


  • #9
    fiacha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 794 ✭✭✭fiacha


    Turner wrote: »
    Alot of giving out about the people who found it.

    About how they broke the law by using a metal detector.

    If they had not, this thing would not have been discovered.


    Yup, and it most likely would have just sat on a shelf in someones living room or been sold on.

    Thanks to someone reporting the social media post and it being recovered, it may now go on display in a museum.

    Where exactly it was found, how it may have gotten there and what other information was in the ground around it are questions which will never be answered. That is the real issue with amateur metal detecting.
    No matter how much fun it is, there is no denying the fact that in many cases more history is destroyed in the process than is uncovered by the shovel.


  • #10
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,908 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    Dr Strange wrote: »
    The comments section on this NMI post on FB and the article on the journal.ie should be interesting!

    No they won't.


  • #11
    slowburner
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,223 Mod ✭✭✭✭slowburner


    Mod note:

    It is illegal to use a metal detecting device to search for archaeological objects without a license.

    Please read the sticky on the landing page.


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  • #12
    slowburner
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,223 Mod ✭✭✭✭slowburner


    Mod note:

    This forum has a zero tolerance policy on posts that support, indicate support, or promote unlicensed metal detecting, or the use of detection devices in the search for archaeological objects.
    Please read and understand the following information before posting in this thread.



    https://www.museum.ie/The-Collections/Metal-Detecting-in-Ireland-The-Law?fbclid=IwAR3cXN1NeQC7spNMeCFdBKGEt4Q4y9n5m2y41f4M3bjwKXp09Br9dzKLv0g


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