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There's gold in them there fields

            So, we went hiking yesterday making the most of the last of some good weather before the really bad stuff arrived.
One of our favorite routes that takes us through South Farm near the village of East Meon. This is the view from our picnic stop, note all the people in the foreground fields. We wondered what on earth was going on until we noticed they all had metal detectors.
It turned out it was a local metal detector club out looking for buried treasure.
They were a cheerful bunch and more than happy to talk about what they had found. One guy showed us some silver Elizabethan coins he had found but they all knew about the Hampshire Thunderbolt that someone had found.
When it came to coins they all seemed to talk in tongues, I had no idea what they were on about.
For info, The Hampshire Thunderbolt is a Gold Quarter Stater dating to the first century BC. Minted by the Celtic Belgae tribe.
Apparently these fields are good for metal detecting, as we are on chalk in this area there is very little topsoil, only around 30cm so every time a field is ploughed it turns up something new.

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Taken in: UK / England / East Hampshire / East Meon (show map)

Taken on: January 4, 2025

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