Lost Gold of the Dark Ages: Saxon Hoard Found!

[Plumes1]

Most interesting is the pattern used is very sofisticated. It is so weird to say that it seems to be proof there were people before us.

[Plumes1]

I can see it might have been a burial when they burn the body and that may have contributed to the twisting and tearing. But then again it could have been a plow or even bigger machinery.

[killerrr97]

"Was I Destined To Find It ?"

And His Ego Takes Over

[ChangeTheirMinds]

@yahoopl3 congratz!!

[TekBubs]

1:05 LISTEN BITCH, DONT TELL ME IT AINT THE BIGGEST GOLD FOUND CUZ ITS THE ONLY ONE. THAT MEANS IT IS THE BIGGEST ONE YOU JEWFUCK

[museluvr]

I think Terry was more concerned with ensuring that all the Anglo Saxon gold items were given to the museums for the people to see and enjoy, over being stolen by 'nighthawks' (crime gangs bent on stealing items at night before they're ever discovered by honest people n means).

[MikaelAlatervo]

beaches, and snow dump sites or snow dump fields *where road clearing services drop off snow* in the summer are a decent spot for detecting metals, ppl lose jewelry and loose change a lot, and they tend to up in those places, best part about snow dump fields, is that you can go back their annually and keep trying once the snow has melted.

[surg3dg]

i need a metal detecter

[DUCKIE775]

Money does by happiness..

[FreeeeS]

I am greedy those are really shiny metals ;p~

[PrettyBoyCranking]

why are these golden artifacts more beautiful than the jewelry that we have in our modern time? those gold pieces with red diamond in them look beautiful and royal

[rommelchinito]

True happiness won't cost any gold nor silver it's within our hearts. :D

[UltimateKing011]

fuck the government fuck the museums fuck the public if i found that i would sell it on the black market and buy a golden toilet with a diamond encrusted seat

[Parley454]

@UltimateKing011 that sounds really painful, if diamonds can cut glass, then they would probably really hurt sit on.

[XxHanix]

i found this in my backyard once...

[thegriffin88]

The horde was probably broken prior to burial as a sacrfice to some pagan god. Cultures around the world did similar things before offering them up to the gods.

[CrazyForPianosGirl]

when they said that it wasnt just treasure, my mind was like COURSE NOT its REALLY EXPENSIVE TREASURE.

[ArtypNk]

I can imagine how happy the discoverer was before people said "It belongs to the government".

[TFv052]

Forget the museum. Id take all that shit to myself then sell it to private buyers! Lol

[likexmike]

anyone know if they guy who found it got rich?

[JasonCloud]

Skyrim artifacts?!

[PleePotX]

@JasonCloud I wanted to make a reference to Skyrim but you beat me to it!

[Plusimurfriend]

lucky bastard

[RoyalCaoCao]

JIZZED IN MY PANTS.

[vuur150]

Wow.. I can watch this in my country and it's not about animals eating each other, Looks like you're impro ing NG

[cal45deserteagle]

Bloody hell! 

[Plusimurfriend]

@cal45deserteagle racist !! :D:D

[cal45deserteagle]

@Plusimurfriend No,sir I'm not a racist, I'm just bloody jealous!! :D:D

[TheLizardLover]

Amazing! The discoverer is a LUCKY BASTARD! I would be tickled pink to make a discovery like that... I would REALLY love to find some glorious fossils...

[xXjarhead95xX]

@tamuz95 he only gets a finders pay and I don't think its equivalent to what he found lol!

[xXjarhead95xX]

A PIECE OF THE LOST ARK!

[Plusimurfriend]

@xXjarhead95xX jews ate the ark in the desert

[frostfirei]

@NorseHeathengirl2345

There is 14,000 years of history here, in the US.

[culwin]

"what I found is equivalent to Tutankhamen's tomb"

Uh, not quite.

[CanadianoftheCoast]

The gold is worth money. The archaelogical insight it provides is priceless.

[ArtisanTony]

It is mine! Give it back! I am the last saxon! :)

[lydiloo93]

I'm pretty sure this was the hoard discovered near to where I live

[marshaeisner]

So this was all a sales pitch to sell the book? I always thought that Nat'l Geog. was into information, not sales.

[conroexlexx]

So how much is everything worth I wanna buy em all

[MerchantofTarshish]

I just bought The NGM and saw the article

[bowerybaker]

wow

[Loathomar]

I am not really sure this should be thought of a the same as Tutankhamun tomb, with the exception of the fact that they are both big deals to archaeologists. To put this amount of gold in prospective Tutankhamun's coffin is 450 pounds of pure gold, and it was one of many treasures found, this is 11 pounds.

[BIGGGY305]

this is old as fukkkkk

[TheHarrisonargolo]

1:45 Omg ;)

[KKingstoneRR]

That's why Ninjas wear black.

[suprinfean]

I love this sort of things. More of this please!

[ChangeTheirMinds]

Ive seen this exhibit quite a few times, some very beautiful pieces. The farm is really close to where i live :)

[yahoopl3]

@ChangeTheirMinds wow, that's awesome...i just finished taking a shit, the turd was huge

[juanrio55]

Seriously i hope that man got filthy fucken rich for that find

[anatureperson]

Wouldn't you know it... Charles and Camilla.. the royal idiots who never worked a day in their life.. want a piece of the action.

[Mrdutchkid123]

id keep that shit in my basement

[duffman1221]

if i found this id keep it a secret until i die, then in the news you hear "man dies leaves behind some of the worlds most valueable artifacts unknown to existance till now"

[anatureperson]

@duffman1221 I don't think you could keep it a secret.

[fallbread]

good for him so cool I hope we learn a lot of history from this find

[Tamuz95]

i hope the guy who found this got rich, cus if he didnt that would be fucked up

[MrJST87]

@Tamuz95

In Britain, when there's a find like this, it goes to the Queen. It is then valued and 50% of it's worth is paid to the person who found it, with 50% going to the owner of the land that it was found in. The actual treasure then goes to a museum. So yeah he did get pretty bloody rich lol.

[IndiaSergeant]

@MrJST87 thx for that info...I was def. curious :)



[Maurazio]

@Tamuz95 it's not about the money :P

[subh1]

@Tamuz95 at least he became famous.

[RIPSNZ]

@Tamuz95 Just saw the whole program. The guy who found it, and the farmer who's land it was all on got 1.3 million pounds each. not bad for an afternoons work huh.

[gjediting]

@Tamuz95 5.2 million USD.

[J88Wolf]

(0)_(0)

[D0uch3846]

no ur not