The following are from Eureka, our hard copy magazine from the pre website era. July 1991. Editor Reg Nightingale paid a visit to the British Museum: “British Museum Cafe – Members tempted…
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DELVE INTO THE ARCHIVES 3
As the temperature rises and the odds of rain (hopefully) increase I thought this article in the September 1993 issue of Eureka would be appropriate. Lightning Never Strikes…..? By Jim Furner. John…
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A DELVE INTO THE ARCHIVES 2
Our magazine “Eureka” was preceded by a two quarterly newsletter. Autumn/Winter 1979 and we continue the tree thread from my first delve. ”An old English custom until the turn of the century…
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A DELVE INTO THE ARCHIVES
This is the first of an occasional look into the club’s archives. We start in the days when cut and paste meant using scissors and glue, when desktop publishing required an actual…
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FOUND IT!
At our last evening meeting Geoff invited us to identify some of his finds – yes, even he finds stuff he knows not what it is. We also were stumped, but later…
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Stand well clear!
Another extract from Eureka – the club magazine which was the predecessor of our website. This one written by former chairman Brian Streeter in the July 1987 issue. “Cannon shells, usually the…
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DIGGING FOR BRITAIN
If you are not already watching it, I can thoroughly recommend Digging For Britain aired on BBC4 every Tuesday. It’s archaeology based but I think it has plenty to interest detectorists. And, if…
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Christmas Miscellany.
Number 5 (ish) of an occasional trawl through back copies of Eureka and its predecessor which were the club magazines pre our website. Although, having said that, the June 2000 issue includes…
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POP ALONG TO SEE THIS
If you are in the vicinity – or even make the journey – to see the moving and spectacular 888,246 ceramic poppies planted in the moat of the Tower of London. Stunning.…