Ditz Posted May 13, 2007 Share Posted May 13, 2007 Hi sheffield forum readers! Avast me hearties! ive jst bought a metal detector and was wondering if there were any old buried treasure folklores or legends hanging around sheffield? Tried to look it up, but no results. so any help would be most appreciated or ill skin ya and use ur bones to beat my bread! Yahh!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itsmewhy Posted May 13, 2007 Share Posted May 13, 2007 i remember years ago people with metal detectors seen digging in roe woods dont know if they found anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRedWizard Posted May 13, 2007 Share Posted May 13, 2007 You could use the thing as a spade - there have been rumours about an odd tunnel or two. There was a brief thread about them a while back......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skippy Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 Ditz, on the opposite side of the Don from where the speedway track was or still is at owlerton, is white bridge going over the railway track, between there and the 5 arches is another small bridge & old cemetry, or was in my days there, 40 odd years ago. Kids from my old school at Shirecliffe found old coins, Roman helmets, silver cups etc there, evidently years ago people were buried with all their belongings & the ground had begun to subside there exposing these relics. As long as there arn't any houses on the site today you could well find plenty of buried treasure, don't forget we are going 50/50. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ditz Posted May 15, 2007 Author Share Posted May 15, 2007 hehehe!!! oooo u wish!hehe tanx for that. its funny cos i was just thinking about about that bridge and wondering about the sort of things that could be there. thanks for the tip, ill definitely look into that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
depoix Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 hehehe!!! oooo u wish!hehe tanx for that. its funny cos i was just thinking about about that bridge and wondering about the sort of things that could be there. thanks for the tip, ill definitely look into that.be carefull,it sounds like wards end cemetary,if it is you will be in trouble if your caught grave robbing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BILDEBORG Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 I lost a sixpence in Weston Park back in the 70's....if you find it would you pass it on please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ditz Posted May 18, 2007 Author Share Posted May 18, 2007 anybody else got any stories? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric_Collins Posted May 18, 2007 Share Posted May 18, 2007 some dudes around my end found a war chest full of solid gold coins. I think it was payments for the civil war. The site was declaired a treasure Horde and the cops removed it. http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/buriedtreasure/treasurechest/fishpool/ this is about a 10min walk from where i'm sitting right now. The site it was found isn't on the website but i know where it was found. This is the largest hoard of gold coins ever found in Britain. The hoard, which also included some jewellery, was buried in Sherwood Forest, and was only discovered when some builders were at work in the 1960s. The hoard contained over 1237 gold coins and 10 pieces of gold jewellery. It was buried in about 1464 at a time of a terrible civil war in England and Wales to decide who would be King, known as the Wars of the Roses. ________ Ford xb falcon picture Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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