Buried treasure waiting

They might not be in your back yard, but you never know. These guys looked for 30 years.

“Each one of the 30,000–50,000 coins is estimated to be worth around £200 each, putting the value of the haul at up to £10milion.”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2164897/Iron-Age-coins-worth-10m-discovered-Jersey-metal-detector-friends.html

From the “We don’t know as much as we think” department:

The TV show “Draining the Great Lakes” had a great segment on what appears to be a caribou herding fence on a plateau several miles from the now shore and about 100 feet below the now surface. The fence would have been after the Ice Age, because ice would have moved the stones.

Another program dealt with Stone Age villages between mid-Eastern England and Europe, showing England once was attached to the continent.

Commenting on new archaeological finds, Priscilla said she remembered elementary school geography teachers saying that all volcanoes were dormant and people no longer need fear eruptions.