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00:00unspoiled countryside nestled between moors and dales this ancient land is steeped in history
00:11this is where the vikings settled where the romans fought and where william
00:19conquered we're here with a team of history hunters as they reveal their stories and the
00:25evidence we need lies right here in the ground beneath our feet
00:30today we start a brand new series we're going to be going all over the uk looking for some of the
00:58archaeological treasures that are right underneath our feet we'll be joined by these guys
01:02enthusiasts every single week as we go digging for treasure from tiny fragments of pottery to
01:08priceless antiquities whatever we find will help us uncover the hidden history of this area as well
01:15as tell the stories of people that lived here maybe hundreds of years ago and that's the thing it could
01:19be we find something from thousands of years ago or something that's just fallen out of a farmer's
01:24toolkit last week or perhaps the 50p that dropped out of my pocket earlier dad don't give the game
01:28away michaela we'll show you around our setup over the course of the program but most importantly
01:32we've got an audience in the table here good evening everybody uh andy is here from the portable
01:38antiquity scheme hello andy great to see you and we're in the presence of greatness one of the
01:45nation's leading archaeologists raksha dave is here as well now i'm very excited about our first week i
01:52wanted to call this program getting diggy with it that is the reaction that's why we had to call it
01:57digging for treasure tonight but we've got this brilliant big rig we've also got a big dig
02:01going on outside and just through here out in the field is michaela
02:05it is indeed a big dig you can see it's a huge field we've got all our detectorists for their metal
02:12detectors out we're spanning the generations young spencer here has found something what have you found
02:17let me have a look a spindle whirl and i've been told that's fantastic isn't it that it's the weight
02:24that would have been at the end of a yarn spinning stick any idea what that dates back to yeah you
02:30could be looking at anywhere from 1200 to 19th century but the pattern on that's really really
02:35good and a really nice find for spencer so i'm quite proud of him that he's got that out
02:38well done you spencer the youngest of the team has come out with something really nice thank you
02:44very much for that what do you think dan go on spin us a yarn about the spindle whirl
02:49oh she put me on the spot there i must improve my spindle knowledge just to let you know how things
02:55are going to work tonight the stuff that michaela finds out here in the field we're going to bring
02:58it back to the base camp and identify it and try and find out some of the history behind it and in
03:04terms of exactly where we are basic geography lesson about two hours north that way would take
03:08you to hadrian's wall about an hour south will get you to york and if you drive 90 minutes that way
03:13you'd get to the east coast and you might also be wondering why have you just turned up in someone's
03:18field and started digging don't worry it's all been very carefully planned our field survey is all
03:24about the special permission that we got before we actually turned up here and what we're trying to
03:28do is build a really clear picture of the people who lived here who fought here and who died here
03:34as well let's go back inside because it is raining down now i should warn you if you're going to clap
03:40and go wild every time we come in the tent this could be a very long program but i'm actually here
03:44with andy i wanted to call it a table but apparently you've already got a special name for it no mate this
03:48is my table of chronology oh i like it i like it so andy you're an flo you're a fines liaison officer
03:55and you're one of forty around the country so you're people's first port of call aren't you
04:01well that's right yeah we work very closely with metal detectorists and uh we like to to record
04:06finds really that are anything over about 350 years old so you're not interested in uncle derrick's
04:11ikea pots then no i'm afraid not okay so we've had a few finds but this is our first big find of the
04:18day let's have a closer look at it yeah it's a really nice medieval uh harness pendant do you want
04:24we get that under our funky macro camera there andy so we can get a really close look at it
04:28oh there it is oh beautiful i mean that blue is that enamel it is yeah that's um uh in heraldic
04:35terms that's uh color azure and we've got three lions rampant on there and we can tell that this
04:41is part of the heraldic symbols for the debone family henry debone whose heraldic pendant this
04:48belonged to was killed by robert the bruce at the battle of bannockburn in uh in single combat
04:53that's pretty good isn't it that's a proper slice of history history andy we'll be back with you
04:58uh throughout the program but just to let you know anything that we find will be recorded and
05:02added to the central database of the portable antiquity scheme which is the proper way to go
05:07about things isn't it and that logs all the discoveries uh right through england and wales
05:11and builds a really comprehensive picture of those who you know called this place home long before
05:16we did if you've just switched on it's digging for treasure tonight uh this is paul the landowner
05:21by the way paul thank you so much for having us and we've also got loads of detectorists here
05:27from north detecting events all these guys have been in the field they are enthusiasts they do this
05:32every single weekend i know andy you know quite a few of these people anybody i should be worried
05:35about talking to no they're all they're all canny enough okay that's slightly concerning me let's
05:40go around and have a little bit of a chat with them because i'd love to know how often do you
05:43guys get together we meet up a few times a week okay so there's a lot of it and sharon tell us
05:49about some of the stuff you've found over the years what are you most proud of my best friend was me
05:52gold sovereign because when i dug it and i was looking at it it was shining i thought it was a
05:57penny and until i picked it out and i was dancing which is incredibly rare isn't it and you can see
06:02how big a smile you've got on your face i suppose it's the fact that you're involved in history and
06:06all of you are peeling back the layers of the past you never know what you're going to get next
06:09it could be anything from saxon roman medieval i'll tell you what our plan our plan next is to
06:15get a bit more michaela stracker would you like to see a bit more michaela please say yes because
06:18we've planned it carefully most definitely okay here we go we're inside here michaela is out there
06:23michaela over to you i don't think it's me they want to see more of they want to see more of what we
06:28found unfortunately we're finding things we really are dave's found something he's been digging
06:33you're nearly there with it aren't you yeah it's under there it looks like a coin well that that
06:38tiny thing there that tiny thing there oh my word look at that how on earth did you find that dave
06:45it's tiny what is it it looks like it's a roman coin it looks second century to me that is a roman
06:52coin that's a roman coin wow you're the first person to hold that in about two thousand years
06:57that really is incredible isn't it it is two thousand years now obviously you had to be very
07:04careful how you dug it out because you might break it and now we've found it we've got to put all this
07:09back carefully that's right and then you've got to mark it you've got to gps it yeah and you've got
07:14to log it and all that is part of citizen science isn't it that's right yeah nice find well done thank
07:21you you can see can't you the level of care that we're trying to take with everything that we're
07:25finding and analyzing for you tonight and there's loads more to come between now and the end of the
07:29program we're going to be taking you underwater have a little look at this we're going to be
07:33exploring an ancient shipwreck lost in the waters of cornwall we're going to meet a man who spends all
07:39his spare time on a quest to reunite others with their lost treasures and we'll set out to find the
07:45resting place of a lancaster bomber lost in norfolk and tell you the tragic story of that final
07:51journey now if you've just tuned in you're watching digging for treasure tonight we are in
07:56north allerton we're actually been here since first light this morning there is so much to find in this
08:03beautiful corner of north yorkshire we're following in the footsteps of soldiers who cross this very land
08:11on their way to a nearby castle in its shadow we're hoping to find norman artifacts from almost 900 years
08:21ago and if we're lucky we might find something like this a cut half penny which dates back to the reign of
08:28henry the first oh my god what is it it's a henry the eighth hammered coin oh my god that is amazing
08:39hello wonder how it got there i wonder how many hands i've touched that coin just a few inches down
08:47is history waiting to be discovered and we've only just begun through these artifacts we can meet the
08:54people who lived loved and died here look at this it's a roman military brooch and despite us being
09:03separated by thousands of years our paths have collided another find to add to our history timeline
09:12and as we unearth these artifacts it will help us to paint a picture of exactly what happened in this
09:18quiet corner of north yorkshire so come with us as we discover the stories of our past
09:23so we chose this field for a reason because it has historical interest and it's certainly paying
09:32off so far because we're finding things all the time and uh kevin here you got a smile on your face
09:38okay so you know that there's something in there somewhere okay let's have a little
09:44oh there there there it is there it is look at that oh there we go okay my god i don't believe
09:51it i don't believe it what is it what is it is it good right that that is i think i think i think
09:56it's a quarter noble there i've 20 years to find somewhere that is absolutely so this is really rare
10:02yeah this is a really good find it's solid gold very rare is it that's solid gold yeah 22 pure
10:08carat gold that's absolutely absolutely yep absolutely so you've been detecting for 20 years
10:14yeah and that's the first one i've ever found hey you're gonna put it in that hand and i'm gonna
10:19give you a congratulations well done look at that absolutely brilliant wow
10:26we are back in our base camp and you might have noticed i've adopted a powerful crouch that's
10:32because i want everyone to give a warm welcome to lucas who's only 10 years old
10:37lucas lovely to see you everyone's very excited because you're going to tell us about this that
10:43you found i mean this coin looks amazing what do we know about it lucas um it's a charles the
10:48first tower shilling and it's a special coin because it's um one of 12 because it's a certain type of
10:53um portrait in his face so there's only 12 of those known about anywhere in the world yeah so
11:00whereabouts did you find this um somewhere local on a little dig okay andy come and join us too
11:06because this is an incredible find isn't it it's great it's really really nice well done is there
11:10any idea about the monetary value of that now as an flo we don't talk about monetary value because
11:17when you find treasure someone else values it yeah that's right if it was treasure we go to the
11:21british museum and the treasure valuation committee would think about value as a day-to-day flow no we
11:25don't think about monetary value at all lucas thank you so much you want to put that back in there
11:29i'm sure everybody will give you a massive round of applause as well well done lucas thank you cheers
11:34guys well we're really excited in the hub because this special find has just come in this is a mount
11:44it's probably roman i think it's predominantly silver so that puts it into the category where
11:49it is treasure as defined under the treasure act so this is the sort of find that if if you find it
11:55things get a bit more serious so a finder needs to report this to an flo or the coroner within 14 days
12:01and go through our treasure process but it's such a cheeky little face isn't it it is i mean what does
12:06it depict do we know do we have any idea at the moment i don't know i think probably it came off of
12:10some sort of vessel um because if we turn it over we've got some solder we suggest that it was
12:15actually mounted on possibly a vessel something like that so you probably would have just like
12:19popped off and fallen in the field yeah i mean it's brilliant i love it i love it how the romans
12:25always like to add a little bit of extra bling on their pots it's an amazing find who managed to get
12:30this this part was you alfie he's only on his third day give him a nice big round of applause well done
12:34alfie and it's not just the detectorists that we've got in the tent who are part of this program
12:40over the last few weeks we've been asking you to send in videos of your finds thank you for the
12:45amazing response we'll get to some of those a little bit later in the program i know andy's
12:49excited about that as well and the other thing we should say is that everybody here does this with
12:53the utmost responsibility it's a really serious thing to be involved in finding out about our past
12:58about our history and bringing that to life and if you're excited by that or you'd like to be a part of
13:03that there's loads of information that we put on our social media so get involved uh get cracking
13:08and then i mean this is the really exciting part you could be part of finding out about the history
13:14and the understanding of those who walked these parts long before we did you could be like kevin
13:19and find look at that the most exciting find that we've had all day real gold and i'm going to get my
13:25step count up i'm going to go to the hub so and you can take a real look at that during the break
13:30and after that we'll be back we'll be transporting you to the southwest coast with marine archaeologists
13:36that are exploring an ancient shipwreck so i'll see you in just a minute
13:41welcome back to digging for treasure tonight raksha kevin's coin what a find oh it's hotting up in
13:56the hub isn't it it's getting big um in fact kevin is here kevin get in here and bring your coin
14:00come on thank you sir let's get it straight out to andy andy get that under the macro microscope
14:07gosh even i'm impressed and i'm an archaeologist it's a lot to impress an archaeologist it does
14:12it's a gold quarter noble um i don't know the ruler um as yet but we do know these come in
14:17a period where we need a higher value coin so about the mid 14th century nobles come in the coin
14:23called a noble which is worth about 80 silver pence so this is a quarter noble worth about 20 silver
14:29uh silver pence so where does the gold actually come from then if you were needing a higher
14:33denomination all of a sudden well the gold would probably come from west africa it's incredible
14:38so 600 years old kevin you said out to michaela it's already the most amazing thing you've found
14:42and now you know a little bit of the history behind the geography like i said it's took me 20 years
14:47to find one and i wanted the full noble quarter noble's fantastic i mean it is an amazing thing i can
14:52see the smile on your face so this is why you do it isn't it oh yeah definitely definitely
14:56that's what it's all about well well done kevin let's give another round of applause brilliant
14:59stuff kevin i know you're really proud of that as well thank you
15:02andy does that actually class as treasure then i'm afraid not no a single you would think you're
15:09party pooper well i know you'd think a single gold coin would be treasured but if it's precious metal
15:14needs to be two or more coins and if it's a base metal so we've got a copper alloy for instance it
15:19needs to be at least 10 or more coins okay it's still amazing that we found that so kevin
15:24how are you planning on celebrating right i've got a signal out there exactly the same as that
15:28one really i'm going to go and dig that up to see what it is get yourself out there kevin
15:31say go on get out kevin's up i'll tell you what right if he finds anything else we'll get him back
15:37before the end of the program this this is the excitement we were looking for i feel i need a
15:41break i need a cup of tea do you want a cup of tea cup of tea everybody 30 cups of tea please i do
15:46feel we've got the easy job michaela's out there in the field um let's find out what she's up to
15:50well i'll tell you something dan i've got my step count up i'm up to 9878 steps i'm doing a few more
15:57to come to tom because he's got a strong signal that that is a good signal isn't it 25 yeah it
16:04means there's something interesting there let's just see that shall we shall we start digging
16:07yeah let's see what it is i mean a strong signal means it's quite near the surface doesn't it
16:14okay
16:14he says hopefully oh you've got it there well it's bigger it's a bigger coin it's shiny but
16:23can you see what it is well if you look at that you can see it's britannia yeah and if we turn it
16:28over we've got facing right so it's probably george the third still a good find though it's not bad it's
16:37still it's not a gold one but it's still a really good find isn't it for eight years i'm still looking
16:42for gold well continue on continue on tom you never know what you might find by the end of the evening
16:48you know we are finding great things here and all over the uk we can find fantastic historical
16:55things not just on the land but also in the waters around our coast so recently we tagged along with
17:02archaeologist dr david gibbons and diver mark mark milburn to see what we could find
17:09my name is david gibbons and i'm a maritime archaeologist i developed a very strong interest in the
17:23historic shipwrecks of this coast which is one of the richest places for wrecks anywhere in the world
17:30today i'm returning with mark and ben who are both professional divers to look at one of the more
17:40fascinating historic shipwrecks
17:43and the great fascination of this place is the sheer density of wrecks
17:49somebody once suggested that if you were to drain the sea here by 30 meters you can walk
17:55on wreckage all the way from one end of this peninsula to the other i have found some quite
18:01nice intact thing on one wreck we dive actually found some reasonably intact muskets when you first
18:07waft away and see like the trigger guard and the stock and you you instantly look at it and you think
18:12well wow you know that's quite a nice discovery to make yeah
18:15so we're about to dive on the wreck of the answer off low bar this great stretch of sand and shingle
18:25the answer was a royal navy frigate which sank here in 1807 and what we know from the account of
18:35horrified locals who were lining the beach here looking at the wreck is that tragically many many of
18:41the people on board never made it out of the surf because with the sea being up the surf is like a
18:47washing machine and people simply couldn't get out and many many dozens of people died the remains of
18:52it are on the seabed cannon and other artifacts and that's what we're going to go and dive on now
18:58when we're underwater we're basically in an alien environment to us most people don't experience
19:06this sometimes we see things that no one's ever seen and it's it's it's it's like a huge discovery
19:13any of these wrecks can have extraordinary clients on them you never know what we'll see
19:20getting onto a wreck seeing the cannon for the first time putting my hand on the gun there's
19:29this frisson of excitement that i feel every single time it never wanes there is a daunting feeling as
19:36well being the first person to touch a bit of wreckage perhaps last was touched by somebody who
19:43sadly may have died in in that wreck and that gives a really intimate connection with with
19:50us through
19:56very enjoyable i must have seen about 30 40 ballast blocks six or seven cannons so we're down on the
20:02wreck and i found this i think a 12 pound cannibal designed for smashing through the side of a ship
20:11quite a nasty piece of weaponry they usually abrade away by the action of the sea i thought i'd bring
20:18it up and we'll conserve this and hopefully maybe the local museum or something like that might want
20:22it when the treatment on it's complete
20:24so when you first discover something no one's ever found before it's a very strange feeling
20:32because you're the first person who's ever seen it since it once disappeared beneath the waves so it can
20:38be very exciting but it can be sometimes quite sad if the if the vessel's got a sad story behind it you
20:43do start to think about what happened to the crew and you know it does mean something
20:46a wreck like that is a bit like stonehenge it's a monument and it's a memorial as well to people who
20:54sailed that ship and who died on it very uh the bottom of everything that excites me about shipwrecks
21:01at the end of the day the excitement and the tantalizing aspect of this sort of work is um just how much
21:13there is still to be discovered it's it's a bit addictive that was a really good dive that was very
21:21exciting excellent end to the day
21:31what an incredible underwater discovery i prefer to stay on dry land myself and today in this field one of the
21:39detectors found an incredible find it's a roman trumpet brooch and it's called that because it looks like a
21:45trumpet but actually it was worn just like this and the pin where you can kind of see where the line
21:54where the pin was attached to is just here and that snapped off but it's that idea that very thought that
22:02somebody was walking across the field here 2 000 years ago trying to fiddle with their pin and attach it to
22:09their cloak and it snapped and it dropped on the floor and now we've discovered it it's incredible
22:14and look everyone michaela and tom have rejoined us at base camp hello hi tom come in
22:21you know i'd like to ask a question if i drop my necklace right on this field in a thousand years
22:26time what story would they make up about the necklace
22:29i'm going to pass you on to the expert but andy i would safely say no value whatsoever
22:33well he's got some heritage value but hey we don't talk about monetary value
22:37correct i'll tell you what let's have a look at what tom found this is the coin that he found andy
22:44okay so this is a george the third 1799 bit more of a workaday find you know we've seen the gold and
22:50silver and we've had a lot of really good finds out of this field today so this is a bit more workaday
22:55don't be horrible to tom
22:57oh i'm sorry tom
22:58so basically you're not very impressed with that one
23:01it's a nice find it's a nice find
23:03jill where's jill jill found something really interesting earlier on do you want to put that
23:07yes well done jill
23:08round of applause
23:09so um a portrait that well you might recognise um that's henry the eighth so we're coming out of the medieval period
23:18it's got a side portrait the medieval coins always have a portrait with the uh with the face front
23:23so again a really nice silver coin so we're back on the silver with this one
23:27we're going to keep looking at these amazing artifacts and like you say andy it's incredible find in one single field
23:33and after the break on digging for treasure tonight we are going to be meeting a man who got into all of this
23:37because of his passion for helping others
23:39welcome back to digging for treasure tonight
23:50and andy we've got so many things coming in haven't we like this big sight reveal what have we got
23:56yeah here we've got a coin from the anglo-saxon period we've got a coin called a skeet
24:02tiny little coin
24:03i've got a two crown coin there that shows you just how small it is
24:06i mean why is it so small
24:08well uh the reason that they're so small is is because of the um the shortage of silver at the time
24:13so um we're talking about a time when trade and commerce is just coming back into the country
24:18so it's the first sort of trade and commerce we get after the romans
24:22so it's sort of trying to look like a roman coin so the influence of rome and the roman empire is really still very strong
24:28in a coin like this from the mid 8th century
24:30i love the fact we found so much and we should say a big thank you to all the detectorists all over the uk
24:34who've been sending in the videos of their finds for you to have a little analysis of so andy we're going to put you on the spot
24:40um i'll introduce you to adrian have a listen see what he's found
24:44hi my name's adrian i'm from bromyard herefordshire over my ten years of detective i've found lovely artifacts gold coins rings
24:52hey i've got a signal
24:54i find an interesting artifact
24:56i think it's a dagger
24:58or a sword shape
25:00which went on the bottom of the leather piece to stop the sword piercing through
25:04i'd like to receive some more information on this
25:06is he right andy yeah he's absolutely right it's um a shape off of a scabbard it's very useful you
25:12you stop you stabbing yourself in the leg
25:14always handy
25:16always a good idea yeah um it's exactly what um what he thinks it is and it's probably um i would say
25:22post medieval maybe just at the end of the medieval period
25:26okay so it's like 400 years old something like that
25:28something like that yeah
25:29okay we've got another one
25:30i think they need a better glue didn't they in the post medieval period
25:33yeah this is dan uh see if you can answer dan's question
25:36hi i'm dan i'm from the beautiful county fermanagh here in northern ireland
25:40i've been detecting for three years i love this hobby it's great for my mental health
25:44i found a few bits and pieces coins military items
25:47here's an artifact i found on this permission i have no idea what it is
25:51its pieces were spread over a 20-foot radius or so
25:54i would love to find out a bit more about it i really find it quite unique
25:59what do you think about this then andy well that's interesting i don't know if you noticed
26:02right in the center of that we've got what looks like an african bust african sort of face so
26:07it's possible that it's an ancient piece that's come from africa or something possibly from the roman period
26:12there's so much to learn i feel like i'm learning everything andy thank you for the moment
26:15if you'd love to become a history hunter uh then we have put all of that in a really handy pack on our social media
26:21so go there and you can find out all you need to know we're going to take you now
26:25to frinton on sea which is in essex because many people use history as their way in to this lifestyle
26:32but we're going to hear from a man now who was inspired by trying to help those looking for long lost treasure
26:38my name is adam ferguson i started metal detecting watching youtube and people from all around the world
26:51finding these lost items for people i ordered a metal detector for myself and then just started going out
26:56and trying to find things on the beach i've got the beautiful sound of the waves i've got the wind blowing in my hair
27:02all three of them that are left on my head and the feeling of the sand between your toes it's fantastic
27:11well i got a contact from a young lady who's lost the silver ring in the sea so she sent me the location
27:17so hopefully today i'll be out there and i can winkle it up for her
27:23the beauty of most modern detectors nowadays is they actually are waterproof
27:27my one personally goes down to three meters which is taller than me so i'd have to hold my breath if i ever went that deep
27:34it's not going to faint heart in this mommy but it does get cold when it gets around your bonkers
27:42okay i'm getting a bit of a signal here
27:48if you can get them things back to them people i mean it just lifts you for the day it's a wonderful feeling
27:53the signal has sadly disappeared so obviously that was a full signal i was getting because of the waves
28:01it's very hard to trace your own steps
28:04so what i'm basically doing now is i'm picking
28:07to find the things on the landscape where i can use them as physical markers
28:11so at the moment i'm looking at one of the beach huts up the top
28:15and then i'm working my way out to sea and then back in again
28:17to gauge exactly where i am and what i've covered
28:25some friends of mine because i've been quite successful in finding things for people on the beach
28:29and especially rings
28:31a few of them have started calling me load of the rings now
28:34i'm not sure if that's because i find the rings or i look like a fat gander
28:38probably my favourite find that i found recently actually was a silver ring which had a stone in it that incorporated his father's ashes
28:53the young lad was only 17 and i was lucky enough to be able to get out the next day and find it on the beach
28:59but it's a story that rings true with me because i lost my father at a young age
29:04and i just really thought that maybe they were both looking over us that day when i was lucky enough to dig it out the ground for him
29:13i think the really good signal here
29:16so i'm going to dig down now into the sand
29:19well lo and behold it's not the ring that we were looking for but i found a ring
29:34okay
29:36so that's obviously someone's wedding ring that they've lost
29:41so that's going to have to go onto our social media page and post that up
29:46and hopefully we can find the person who lost it
29:49yeah so it looks like lord of the ring strikes again
29:52but unfortunately that wasn't the ring we were looking for
29:56a lot of these things are sentimental
29:59and once they're lost they're lost forever
30:01and they might hold memories of families that go back generations
30:04so that one thing that you find
30:07that might not seem a valuable item to one person or myself
30:11to them that could mean the world
30:13if i was to describe to someone who's never met with detective before
30:17i would just introduce them into the sides of
30:20well do you like history?
30:22do you like being outside? do you like adventure?
30:24i mean i can walk ten paces across a field and come across a massive hoard of gold
30:28which would be fantastic i've never been that lucky yet
30:31but it's the mystery out there i think everyone has got that little bit of kid inside them
30:36that goes do you know what i'd love to find pirate treasure
30:39what a lovely man and what a charming film and he's absolutely right isn't he?
30:45we'd all love to go back to being children and go in search of pirate treasure
30:50so you know what i'm no longer going to be a passenger on this series
30:53i'm going to get involved so look i've got all the gear
30:56no idea fortunately
30:58this man can give me a few tips
31:00this is graen rogerton who has
31:03you know your tech don't you and you've been doing this for a long time
31:07i've been doing it for the best part of four decades now
31:10so if i don't know it now i never will
31:12so go on then talk me through the different metal detectors
31:14there's lots of different detectors on the market michaela
31:16there's this one here which is like an intro machine between two and three hundred quid
31:20and then you've got another one slightly higher advancement if you will
31:24three or four hundred quid range
31:25and then you've got the professional high-end detectors which you've got in your hand now
31:29you're talking about between nine hundred and a thousand pounds
31:32so what does this do that these two more entry-level ones can't do?
31:36it's a multi-frequency detector it's got more features than these ones
31:40it's got you know it's fully waterproof it's wireless
31:43you can use it on the land you can use it on the beaches
31:45you can squeeze more performance out of that detector than you can these ones
31:49and can it detect things deeper down?
31:51yes
31:52well that's pretty handy isn't it?
31:53it is
31:54so what it's turned on what do i do sort of wave it around like this?
31:57the way to do it is get that coil
31:59to the soil as low
32:01coil to the soil i like that
32:03as low down as you can get that coil nice and slow
32:05don't bend your back
32:07don't bend my back okay
32:09and go for it
32:11you're going to be a bit of a swinger
32:13coil to the soil and a bit of a swinger i can do that
32:16let's see does the cameraman have any metal in his shoes?
32:18nope nope nope
32:20but let's see if it's actually working
32:21because this is obviously
32:23the metal detector has metal
32:25so we know that it's working
32:27okay so i think i could get really into this i think i'm hooked
32:30so thank you very much i'll head off in that direction
32:32go on and see if you can find something
32:34that'd be really funny if i did find something wouldn't it?
32:37alright thank you very much that's it
32:39this is what i'm going to do for the next program of the series
32:42what do you reckon Dan? i might actually find something
32:45well it looked like a good technique to me
32:48what do we think guys? happy with what Michaela was doing there?
32:50good sweep? excellent sweep Michaela
32:52let's bring in someone who does know what they're doing
32:54welcome Harry everybody
32:56Harry lovely to see you
32:58do you want to pass your find?
33:00so this is from 12 years ago
33:02you found this not too far away from here
33:04Andy's going to hold it up to camera
33:06Harry did you know at the time this was so special?
33:08what is it?
33:09i did but i misidentified it
33:10i thought it was minerva
33:12and it's actually apollo
33:14the british museum put me right on that
33:16so it's an incredible find Andy isn't it?
33:18oh it's really nice it must be one of the nicest things you've found isn't it?
33:21it is it's up in the top three there yeah
33:23alright
33:25what's number one?
33:27well i've got a denarius at 101 bc
33:29wow that's nice
33:31yeah oldest coin i've gotten i think
33:33oh before it gets all too geeky
33:35because i think we're going there
33:37what's that made out of?
33:38it's a copper alloy
33:40and in this case when you look carefully you can see that there's an applied yellow on the eyes
33:45so there's a little bit of work after that
33:47so there's a little bit of blue on the eyes to make them stand out
33:50well thank you Harry that was a lovely find
33:52you're welcome
33:53we've got loads of artefacts to look through
33:55but just after the break we're joining a team that are discovering the lost Lancaster bomber
34:00that was shot down over Norfolk during the second world war
34:03see you soon
34:11welcome back to digging for treasure tonight
34:14we've been exploring this little historic corner of North Yorkshire
34:17we found all sorts of coins and artefacts that uncover the hidden history of the area
34:23and tell us something about people that lived here hundreds of years ago
34:27but not everything we've found has been ancient
34:29in fact some of it is from our more recent history
34:33and I've got something marked down here with a flag that was found earlier
34:37not so easy to find now it's gone dark
34:40but it's really interesting
34:42look here it is
34:44now can you see that?
34:46we've got to get it verified still
34:48and it would have been worn on the uniform
34:50on the shoulder like that
34:53of a world war one soldier
34:55just think of the stories that that uniform would tell
34:59so it's absolutely wonderful that
35:01but if you think about it all over the UK
35:04then artefacts can be found from both of our world wars
35:07and some of them can be very evocative
35:09and a couple of weeks ago we sent out a team
35:11to look for the exact location of a world war two Lancaster bomber
35:17that was shot down in Norfolk in 1943
35:20my name's Paul Edwards
35:32I served in the military for 30 years
35:35I love history, I love archaeology
35:38and metal detecting brings me closer to that
35:43I found several nice little trinkets
35:46a couple of silver coins
35:47then I came across a spent round
35:50and when I went and spoke to the farmer
35:52he said Paul I think you've found the long lost Lancaster bomber
35:55which crashed in my field in 1943
35:57what?
35:59blown away and that's where my story starts
36:01with metal detecting
36:03I've created a lot of hotspots which I've tried to map
36:05I know she's here
36:07I can feel she's here
36:13the aircraft took off from born in Lincolnshire
36:1597 squadron
36:18flew across to Berlin at 3 o'clock in the morning
36:20dropped all their ordnance on a successful mission
36:22all the way back was shot at by a lone Messerschmitt
36:25the records tell me the aircraft caught fire
36:39Sergeant Chatton, he told the crew to bail out
36:42but himself he stayed with the aircraft
36:44until absolute last minute
36:46jumping out so low
36:48it caused himself some pretty horrific injuries
36:49unfortunately
36:52Flight Sergeant John Kramer from the Royal Australian Air Force
36:54mid-upper gunner lost his life
36:56his body was recovered shortly after the crash from the wreckage
36:59he paid the ultimate sacrifice
37:01I am determined to find the plane
37:03to tell the story of EE-105
37:05and of these brave brave people who were on that aircraft at the time
37:07I am determined to find the plane
37:09to tell the story of EE-105
37:12and of these brave brave people who were on that aircraft at the time
37:15really big day today for me
37:27we've got the ground detect and radar team specialists here
37:30Nori, John and Trinity
37:32is EE-105 out there?
37:34I think so and I truly hope so
37:35tell me how this kit works
37:46it's very similar to the standard radar at the airport
37:51if there are pits of the aircraft
37:53really large bits like the wing or the fuselage
37:56will you be able to see that?
37:58yeah I believe we would
38:02stop
38:04can you go back?
38:06half a metre?
38:08that's the target
38:10how big is that?
38:12it's roughly half a metre in length
38:14it's a good piece of metal that, yeah
38:16well for me, you know, without digging it
38:18that's parts of the aircraft
38:20unless somebody's buried a tractor in the field
38:22you know, it's EE-105
38:26we've been searching now for 20-30 minutes
38:29already the ground radar team has picked up
38:31seven anomalies
38:32but the one I'm really, really excited about
38:35down here is a very, very large piece of metal
38:38let's, let's bring this aircraft to life
38:42yeah
38:44oh!
38:46that's a good one already
38:48oh, more bits, more bits
38:51oh!
38:53she's here
38:55she's here
38:57bloody hell
39:00wow
39:02bloody hell
39:03it's immense
39:04could that be a piece of fuselage
39:05yeah I think so
39:07now we're looking at here
39:08so ten metres?
39:09yeah
39:11all I was looking for today
39:13okay, going through all this work
39:15was to find out EE-105
39:18Lancaster bomber is here
39:19is here
39:20yeah
39:21is it here?
39:22I think based on the evidence
39:23I'm 95%
39:24plus certain that it is
39:26thank you very much
39:28that's one air force guy to another
39:30one air force guy to another
39:32peradua ad astra
39:33that's it mate
39:34cheers buddy
39:35yeah
39:51yeah I mean all the people who flew this aircraft
39:55very brave men indeed
39:59cramped conditions
40:00smelling oil
40:02on fire
40:03well my brain just can't take me there
40:06you know
40:07it must have been absolutely horrendous
40:14Bomber Command throughout World War II
40:17conducted over 155,000 sorties
40:2155,000 airmen lost their lives
40:25I've been putting together pieces of a jigsaw
40:28of EE-105 for the last 12 months
40:30yesterday with locating E-105's final resting place
40:35it's bringing to me some form of closure
40:37but the final bit in the story for me is to come here today
40:40and see Flight Sergeant Kramer
40:42correctly remembered
40:44on Bomber Command Memorial
40:46I am humbled
40:48true hero
40:49it is an amazing story isn't it?
40:56so powerfully told as well
40:57and here are some of the artefacts
40:59we've got some pipe work here
41:01I want to show you this as well
41:02this is a plaque from the Lancaster bomber
41:04can you see that?
41:05it says to lock turn screw clockwise
41:08you can see the information on there
41:10but this is really the most incredible find
41:13so this is the buckle from that parachute
41:16that belonged to Flight Sergeant John Robert Kramer
41:19you can see there the clips
41:21the buckle itself and one of the fasteners
41:23what I find fascinating about this Andy
41:25is it's got little monetary value
41:27but you can touch it, you can feel it
41:29you've got history in your hands there
41:31and you can understand why that would mean so much
41:33to his family
41:35yeah it's very moving, it's really personal isn't it?
41:37you know we know the name of the person who had those objects
41:41the last person to use them
41:43but I think all of the objects that we've had here
41:45will have had a value to people
41:47they'd have been personally involved with them
41:49so something like Jill's coin for instance
41:51the Henry VIII silver coin
41:53the person who lost that would have known all about losing it
41:56yeah and as we learn a little bit about other people
41:58we've probably learned a bit about ourselves as well
42:00well Michaela's come back with us
42:02Michaela lovely to see you
42:03I like things with an emotional value
42:07and I think this pip would have had emotional value wouldn't it?
42:11it would tell so many stories of that particular soldier
42:14where does it fit on our timeline here?
42:17probably around here I would say
42:19yeah okay we've got a good selection here haven't we?
42:22we do, we've got a great selection
42:24so in one day we literally found 2,000 years worth of human occupation on this site
42:30that's pretty fantastic
42:31I'm just going to clap that because I think that's really impressive
42:34come on!
42:36and actually we can click on it but on the database here
42:40was found a Neolithic flint tool
42:43which means this site's about 4,000 years old
42:47it's pretty amazing
42:49can you pick out a few of the things that we've not been able to go through on the show
42:51something else that maybe you can take us through
42:52yes I like these
42:53I think they're first world war cap
42:56they'd like to sit on the hat on the front
42:58they're lovely so that just shows that you know
43:01people have been wandering around
43:03they're military obviously
43:05I quite like this, I'm an everyday item kind of girl
43:08so this is off a kind of like a cloth bag
43:11it kind of seals it
43:13but it's from a bag of manure
43:15lovely!
43:17you've massively lowered the tone there
43:19and what would be your pick of the week Raksha?
43:21what really stands out for you?
43:22it's got to be that trumpet brooch
43:24I just love it
43:25it's just a lovely item
43:27Michaela?
43:28oh the bling!
43:29it's got to be the gold hasn't it?
43:31we never chipped in if Kevin got the other one
43:33did you find the other one Kevin?
43:35awww
43:36well done anyway Kevin you're brilliant at all
43:38Andy what about you?
43:39what do you pick out?
43:40it's got to be the early medieval skeet
43:43the tiny coin
43:44okay if anyone's interested by that
43:45I like this one because it had a bit of silver in it
43:47you also like the bling then
43:49I'm going to go for the bling haven't you?
43:51we've set the bar quite high on this program haven't we?
43:53we really have haven't we?
43:54next week we're going to Scotland
43:56we're going to set up camp there
43:57and not only are we going to look for stuff on land
43:59but also in the water
44:01we're doing something called scuba-tecting
44:03which I love that word
44:05that is the word of the week for me
44:06we should thank a few people
44:08thank you to all our detectors
44:09it's been a real pleasure to spend the day with you
44:11you've been brilliant
44:13hard work
44:15and to Andy from the Pawsable Antiquities Scheme
44:17thank you Andy
44:19we'll see you all next week at 9 o'clock
44:21we'll see you next week from all of us
44:23bye bye
44:29and brand new Digging for Treasure tonight
44:32continues next Friday at 9
44:33brand new tomorrow night at 9
44:36the extraordinary rise and fall of Mr. Saturday night Noel Edmonds
44:39and his incredible bounce back with Deal or No Deal
44:42next tonight Clint Eastwood takes us into our bank holiday weekend
44:45in the thriller Dirty Harry
44:46Dirty Harry