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A silver cup that was reportedly gifted to the man who helped smuggle Bonnie Prince Charlie’s hidden gold out of Britain has gone up for sale for £150,000.
Its emergence may solve the 270-year-old mystery of what happened to the missing millions treasure hunters have been searching for...
Some £35,000 of gold coins – about £5m today – was sent to Prince Charles Edward Stuart by the French to aid his Jacobean rebellion against George II in 1746.
But it arrived two weeks after his decisive defeat at the Battle of Culloden and it was buried on the banks of Loch Arkaig near Fort William to stop it falling into the hands of the English...
Its emergence may solve the 270-year-old mystery of what happened to the missing millions treasure hunters have been searching for...
Some £35,000 of gold coins – about £5m today – was sent to Prince Charles Edward Stuart by the French to aid his Jacobean rebellion against George II in 1746.
But it arrived two weeks after his decisive defeat at the Battle of Culloden and it was buried on the banks of Loch Arkaig near Fort William to stop it falling into the hands of the English...
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Below are excerpts from two articles describing methods of identifying historic locations. The first case employed a broad variety of types of information, and the second involved the translation of old place names.
Ancient maps and accounts from different periods provided insights to help reconstruct a landscape which looked very different from how it looks today, and especially the location of a long-gone oak forest where the battle is said to have taken place.
The network of roads in the area, some of which dated back centuries if not millennia, was also studied by Lewis...
Here is that link.
The route was discovered after a series of Old Norse place names in the centre of the mainland, which were connected to sea and boats despite being many miles from the sea, attracted interest from researchers.
Now it is believed that Vikings were using a route from Harray in the central mainland through the Loch of Banks to a portage at Twatt before reaching the Loch of Boardhouse and ultimately the coastal powerbases of the Norse Earls at the Brough of Birsay, a tidal island off the very tip of the north west coast.
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And here is an excerpt from an article about how an old Viking site was located.
The route was discovered after a series of Old Norse place names in the centre of the mainland, which were connected to sea and boats despite being many miles from the sea, attracted interest from researchers.
Now it is believed that Vikings were using a route from Harray in the central mainland through the Loch of Banks to a portage at Twatt before reaching the Loch of Boardhouse and ultimately the coastal powerbases of the Norse Earls at the Brough of Birsay, a tidal island off the very tip of the north west coast.
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I think many detectorists probably have metal detector settings that they use most of the time. They don't adjust the sensitivity or discrimination level at the beach every time they go detecting. They just use the settings that were found useful in the past.
There might be times when they make some adjustments though. Maybe they use more discrimination when they start finding a lot of junk, or maybe they make adjustments when there is a lot of black sand.
I've had some great detectors that required precise tuning before beginning a hunt. I think some people would benefit from taking a few minutes to do some fine tuning before hunting. It might not make a huge difference, with modern tuen-on-and-go detectors, but it can make some difference, particularly when you are seeking something other than the easy near-surface targets.
Not every beach is the same, and the same beach might change from day to day. One person told me that the ocean water is noticeably more salty some days. That is true. And of course there are days when there is more black sand to contend with.
There are times when you aren't focused in on anything in particular and can go with the default settings, but there are other times when you might want to get the absolute best performance out of your detector. At those times you might want to take a little longer before you begin swinging to make sure you are set up for the current beach conditions and the kind of search you want to do.
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The surf is real smooth and there are no weather systems to watch.
Happy hunting,
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