Posted on 22nd Jan 2016 @ 9:53 AM
A father and son is treasure hunter who dig out pirate treasure which has thousands years by metal detector one day. This important news was announced by Great Britain museum for the first time. It is reported that Whelan Andrew is 35 years old, he is one land surveyor of the Leeds, UK. He and his father David who has 60 years old is the lover of treasure hunting, they always go finding treasure together all over Landon. Whelan and his father went to a farm of North Yorkshire in the Jan of 2013, they take two metal detector and walk around in the farm. Due to they have been search this place many times, but just find some metals that they didn’t expect to find any things. However, there is something happen that really surprise them not for the long time. David’s metal detector suddenly has a loud alarm signal. They were all stop to knee on the ground this time immediately and dig out soil then keep on. The signal was getting stronger after David digs out some soil. They found the silver pot which was sealed by soil about 13 centimeters underground 1 meter. And there were something full fill around the silver pot for protecting.
This silver pot was carved very good, there were some animal and grapevine pattern on its surface. They more curious than before that they dig out the soil on the silver pot carefully. When they open it, hundreds of the silverware and lots of gold jewelries were scaring them. These belong to the corsair from Nordic, including 617 pieces silver coins and 65 pieces jewelry.
Whelan and his father contacted with expert of Great Britain museum immediately. Then, Great Britain museum send expert to there do some identify for this treasure. According to the expert counted this treasure, these have 617 pieces silver coins and 65 pieces jewelry in total and some plurality were used as currency. Expert judge all of these treasure are valuable. Expert said necklace were made of pure gold. So they should belong to leather of corsairs. They always hide the treasure when they in some troubles.
The treasure value committee’ expert of England estimated these treasures immediately. It is estimated that worth one hundred million pounds possibly. If these treasures were bought by Great Britain museum, Whelan and his father, the host of the farm will become a rich man. When they hear this news, they so glad about it. The son Whelan said to his father, we all know that the silver pot should have some treasure was very important inside, even it was so crazy in our dream but it really important to us that we never expect. We will used this money do some investing after sold the treasures and keep going hunting more treasure in North Yorkshire.
When you read to here, you may be more curiosity about treasure hunting. I think the metal detector here can explain for you.