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The Cumbrian Detectorist

@DetectCumbria

Best of my finds from detecting days in Cumbria

Joined February 2022
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Dr Tom Horne@HorneSupremacyJun 2
💛 An extraordinary hoard of three possibly Bronze Age solid gold arm-rings has been found in Cumbria! The rings - torcs - all of which have distinctive fluted or flared terminal ends, were found on farmland near Harker by Alan Daniels and Andy Crammond. open.substack.com/pub/histor…
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Michael Cox@Zonal_MarkingMay 22
fair play to this part of Cumbria for producing both England's World Cup back-up keepers, James Trafford and Dean Henderson, *and* WC2006 back-up Scott Carson. The Gipuzkoa of goalkeeping.
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elizabeth tutty@tutty352Feb 1
St Bega’s Church, Bassenthwaite for a #SundayStile @Soapy_Wit_Tank @tismenic70 @LordOrk
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Dr Tom Horne@HorneSupremacyJan 27
📝 If you haven't already, please sign up for A Whole Lot of History, my free @HistoryHit newsletter on @substack, out every Monday and Friday! Sign up: historyhit.substack.com/subs… Monday 26th edition: open.substack.com/pub/histor…
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Dr Tom Horne@HorneSupremacyJan 12
🆕️ 💥 A Whole Lot of History 💥 📰 The 12th of January Edition ⤵️ ⚫️ Roman Villa in Welsh Park 🏛 ⚫️ Magyar Knight Riders 🏹 🏇 ⚫️ Cumbria Roman Cemetery ☠️ ⚫️ Ancient Office Space 💻🏺 🔗 Link in linked post ⤵️
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Dr Tom Horne@HorneSupremacy9 Sep 2025
Visit the @GovanStones this week *and weekend* to see a Viking-Age roadway being investigated!
The Govan Stones 🛡👑 (@GovanStones) profile pictureThe Govan Stones 🛡👑@GovanStones9 Sep 2025
Can you spot the Viking-Age processional way? Note also the intriguing building foundations, all of which are being investigated throughout this week (inc. SATURDAY and SUNDAY) on the @UofGArchaeo Field School being held with @ArchaeoClyde, led by Prof. Steve Driscoll!
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Adam M. Ibbotson@AdamMIbbotson25 Aug 2025
Can anyone who's into Viking studies, norse mythology, or Anglo-Saxon stuff, identify this bound beast? 🤩 On the back side of a 9th / 10th c. highcross shaft, in a church at the centre of the Stanwick Iron Age Camp (whatever it actually is...) #archaeology #history #viking #UK
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Vintage Maps
@vintagemapstore14 Aug 2025
British and Irish Isles around 920 AD
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Senhouse Museum@senhousemuseum28 Jul 2025
If you're in or around the western Lakes or the Cumbrian coast this summer we'd love to see you. – at Allerby, England
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Adam M. Ibbotson@AdamMIbbotson4 Apr 2025
Map of prehistoric monuments in Cumbria, by date - Neolithic to Bronze Age (4000 - 700BC) ⭐️🌟⭐️🌟 I'm still plugging away at my prehistoric sites database - now with purpose... exciting things to come! 🤔 #archaeology #maps #prehistory #history #megaliths
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North Ages@NorthAges20 Mar 2025
Mar 20: Feast of Hereberht (†687), anchorite. He lived on an island in Derwentwater, Cumbria, and died on the same day as his friend Cuthbert, bishop of Lindisfarne. St Herbert's Island. 📸Keswick Launch Co
The wooded island shrouded in mist.

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Maryport LitFest@LitfestMaryport22 Feb 2025
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Pete Savin@pete_savin15 Feb 2025
Let the excavation commence
Pete Savin (@pete_savin) profile picturePete Savin@pete_savin12 Feb 2025
I’m excited to see the Uncovering Roman Carlisle team return this Saturday for a short winter dig continuing work on the large early 3rd Century building close to #HadriansWall I hope to be filming and photographing during the dig #Archaeology
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North Ages@NorthAges1 Feb 2025
A silver Thor’s hammer pendant was discovered in the Longtown area of Cumbria #OTD in 2008. It dates from AD 875-1000. 📸Portable Antiquities Scheme
The silver Thor's hammer pendant beside a ruler showing it is around 5cm long.

ALT The silver Thor's hammer pendant beside a ruler showing it is around 5cm long.

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Captain Marvel@AnthonyTWilson30 Dec 2024
I walked out tonight at half time, ashamed of the fans booing Zirkzee, a fucking disgrace - l don’t care how bad he was you don’t boo your own. Properly fell out with some lads around me about it, don’t care what you say it’s piss poor & not United. #MUFC
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90s Football
@90sfootball13 Dec 2024
Nike's Good vs Evil advert, 1996.
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Old Northern Curio@northerncurio26 Oct 2024
The 'Rural Settlement of Roman Britain' project actually maps a Roman road from the cluster of Solway forts around Derventio (nr Cockermouth) and Alauna (Maryport), right down to Glannoventa (Ravenglass). This is unusual...
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Neil Burridge@neil_burridge16 Oct 2024
Just finished an order (lady customer ) and have two other swords on the go at the moment and decided to put a few swords out as a comparison. Mostly Ewart Park an Wilburton and the long one North Atlantic type, very much a photo fit of #Bronzage sword development
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Pete Savin@pete_savin8 Oct 2024
I wonder who the last person was to pour from this flagon? Nearly the whole span of Roman occupation in Northern Britannia is represented in the trench south of the Severan 3rd century building #uncoveringromancarlisle #Archaeology
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Old Northern Curio@northerncurio4 Oct 2024
A rough idea of the 'regiones' (small political units) of the post-Roman Brythonic age around Rheged. Based on a mix of archaeology, geography, historical assumptions. Labels mostly based on names associated with places in that regio. 🔵very speculative 🟡more scholarly Thoughts?
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