Featured Celtic - The Durotriges

I saw on you tube just yesterday about amazing metal detector finds and it talked about finding 50,000 celtic coins stuck together. are these part of it?

 

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Possibly - I think there have been a couple of large hoards found, particularly one on the Isle of Wight

 

Hold my beer...
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-jersey-38608178

 

I've visited Stonehenge a few times, but have never found a single Celtic coin there !!!

 

would someone even be allowed to metal detect around there?

 

Chuck Norris and Bond, James Bond.

 

No, metal-detecting, at Stonehenge, would be strictly banned. My note said I had "visited" Stonehenge, nothing about using a metal detector.

 

no, I get that. I was generally curious. I kind of figured not...but imagine what you might find?

 

Not so sure about that. When Stonehenge was built, the whole area would have been heavily wooded. Did coinage exist at the time, or other metallic treasures ? And who would want to be prowling around, whether legal or illicit, when in such an exposed area, and perhaps hundreds of eyes are following your every move ? Any answers appreciated.

 

even if they didn't have metallic objects or coinage there is a chance that it was used or visited by people at one point that did. there is a show called curse of oak island that they have found coins pre dating any record of anyone visiting there.

as for eyes watching you in open area that reminds me of show called prospectors where they extract gems worth in the 10's of thousands of dollars from the mountain side in Colorado with no one else around for a few miles... you hope. when metal detecting, I would keep a couple trashy items like a couple flat buttons with me in case I found something good and someone came over wanting to know what I just pulled out I would show them that so they didn't know I had just found something good.

 

Quite possible that Stone Henge was visited by people who may have been in the habit of dropping metallic objects. As for those flat decoy buttons, I hope you have something else to keep your trousers up (this isn't at all funny, and I'm not laughing !!!).

 

Apologies for the thread necromancy but it still turns up on the first page of a Google search, and I thought you might find these links useful.

This page has a section discussing the derivation of this type from Phillip's staters (about half way down the page), although perhaps not in the detail you were looking for.

This page discusses the derivation from Philip II of Macedon Tetradrachms used by the Eastern Celts.

This page discusses the derivation from Philip II of Macedon Stater used by the Celts from Northern Gaul (and unlimately Britain).