Treasure Hunting

Yeah, no joke… Over 58 items were recently found in an Anglo Saxon cemetery. Some of these treasures dated back to the ninth and tenth century alone. Personal opinions aside, I wanted to get a feel of how you feel about this matter. Are we to believe that these treasure seekers are trying to act as their archaeologist counter parts? It’s one thing to document and preserve cultures, and even to retrieve treasures to be displayed in museums. Unfortunately, it seems as if some treasure seekers are claiming graves for their abundance of artifacts that are “grouped” together. Does this take the thrill out of the hunt, is a good question. How would you feel, if you knew that you were disturbing the final burial grounds of someone?

I would hope that these treasures could at least be donated to museums, and that professionals were called upon to help preserve or protect the remains. If you think about it this is nothing really new, as people have been grave robbing for some time… Heck most of the ancient pyramids were designed in ways to keep robbers out or by installing ingenious “boobytrap’s” to permanently trap thieves. Now I’m not calling the two people mentioned in the story grave robbers, but one could have troubles distinguishing the two separately. Please feel free to leave your comments.

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This review covers those highly advertised “Metal Detector Sandals” you may have seen online. As the name suggests these sandals actually have a coil in one of the soles which can detect faint traces of metal (0.6m.) So as you swing around your one leg as if it were a metal detector, you can rest assured that you might get a few stares on the beach. I’m sure the electronic base that is attached to your leg doesn’t do any better, as it will appear as if you are trying to escape your house arrest sentence.

Enough about appearances though, if we were to look at the actual performance of this detector it would rate pretty low. Sure, the sandals can rumble and emit tones when you put a metal object an inch under the coil, but anything over that and its a dud. As the review suggests, stay away and purchase a real detector for a little bit more dough.

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Okay, that’s bit of an exaggeration. But I think that someone who is willing to help fight crime in such an unusual way deserves some credit. The who: a man by the name of Yves St. Brice (quite the bad guy name right there) led Police on a high speed chase, endangering several drivers while trying to escape. The where: Worcester, Massachusetts. The why: apparently, Yves robbed a Zale’s jewelry store by snatching a ring, when he was arrested the ring was gone…

So what makes this story so different you might be asking? A man who witnessed the chase, grabbed his metal detector where he saw St. Brice speeding and actually found the missing ring! This unknown “crime fighter” went out of his way to help out and did the impossible by locating a needle in the haystack so to speak. Even if he saw where the ring was tossed (which I doubt he did.) Think about the bounce that ring must have taken at such high speeds; and not only that, but the amount of area he must have had to cover with his metal detector! There has been no word of a reward or what metal detector the man used. As for St. Brice, well he is being charged with felony theft now that the evidence has been found.

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