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Thanks to lockdown: Bountiful treasure hunts Need ideas for keeping yourself occupied in lockdown? Treasure hunters in the UK have been searching their gardens and made spectacular discoveries. The British Museum has registered more than 47,000 finds so far. The search for treasures from the past is a real national sport for people in the UK.  Some spend hours roaming meadows and fields with their metal detectors in search of buried treasure, coins or historical weapons. During the first lockd...

Where are the coronavirus hotspots in Basingstoke and Deane? VIABLES and Chineham have emerged as the new coronavirus hotspots in Basingstoke and Deane borough, figures have shown. The number of Covid cases reported in Viables during December 5-12 was 37, a sharp rise from 10 in the previous week. In the same period, Chineham saw 15 new cases, a rise from four in the previous week. The rolling rate of Viables is 472.4 per 100,000 population, which is significantly above the national aver...

“A Very Strange Decision” and “Numismatically, Very Interesting” Barrie Cook, a curator of medieval and early modern coins at the British Museum, says the Tudor hoard contains coins minted during the reign of Edward IV all the way through to his grandson King Henry VIII . Furthermore, most of the gold coins show “angels” on one side and images of the archangel Michael killing a dragon, as described in the Biblical Book of Revelation on the flip side. The coins from the reign of H...

We used to have 16 staff, now only 4: New rules choke Basingstoke pubs PUBS IN Basingstoke are struggling to keep the business going as Tier 2 restrictions continue in the region. Several pubs without kitchens remain shut in Basingstoke as the government has banned landlords in Tier 2 region from selling alcoholic beverages without a ‘substantial meal’. The manager of a pub in Old Basing said 80% of his staff are out of work because of the new restrictions. “We used to have 15-16 ...

Gold coins, medieval treasures discovered in British backyards during lockdown CNN 12/12/2020 New quarantine hobbies have unearthed new passions, some bringing with them a literal silver lining. This year, backyard archaeologists in the United Kingdom have recorded discoveries of more than 47,000 objects, the British Museum announced this week. Regular people found the vast majority of the historical artifacts by traversing the countryside with metal detectors, before adding or updating recor...