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My Treasure Diary - 13th February 2006
Wee bit of excitement to start my Monday morning with today. Instead of starting work at 9am I was on the beach at Brightlingsea, with my detector, and Caroline McDonald , my local Finds Liaison Officer being interviewed by BBC Radio Essex in a live broadcast about my wee find.
They had picked up on the story from the couple of articles which appeared in the local press - the Evening Gazette and the Essex Chronicle - following the Coroners Inquest.
Needless to say they wanted to have detector noises in the background so I had to sweep my coil over finds I had placed on the sand !
As with most of the press attention so far, the questions centred around the financial worth of the find. Caroline and myself went to great pains to get over the message that the real value of this and other Treasure Finds isnt in the monetary value placed on them , but is in the historic information and the story they help to build of the past.
Bearing in mind its Valentines day tomorrow it was also nice for Caroline to also be able to mention a find I handed to her before the interview which is my 3rd Treasure find. Its a wee button or cufflink which has 2 hearts and a crown on it and dates to the time of Charles II.
Caroline McDonald at Brightlingsea beach
So that was my 4 minutes of fame - dont think anyone I know heard it - apart from my Mum and thats what counts!
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