Berkshire FLO (Pip/Dr. BERK 💙❤️🖤) 🏳️‍🌈 Profile picture
Finds Liaison Officer for Berkshire, Portable Antiquities Scheme. An unofficial site providing info on finds days, interesting finds in the area and guinea pigs
May 24, 2021 23 tweets 5 min read
I had a few points in response to my Insta post about the Ryedale Hoard which are worth discussing again. "Do you think more people might donate to museums if, as a matter of course sometimes, our" treasure finds" which sometimes take years to go through the process, to them be bought for a paltry sum by a local museum to end up in a drawer somewhere and never be seen again?...
May 22, 2021 26 tweets 29 min read
#Eurovisionfinds Cyprus - A medieval base silver (billon) denier of Henry II of the Kingdom of Cyprus (1285-1324) of 'lion' type probably dating to the period after 1296 (see notes below). Mint uncertain #Eurovision @findsorguk

finds.org.uk/database/artef… Image #Eurovisionfinds Albania - A complete Post Medieval copper alloy Venetian 2 Soldi struck for use in Dalmatia and Albania dating from AD 1684 or 1691 #Eurovision
#ALB @CrapFinds

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