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Published 3 March 2021
On the 8th of January 1740, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) ship
Rooswijk weighed anchor and left harbour on the Dutch island of Texel, carrying a varied cargo that included large quantities of silver coins and bullion intended for trade. This marked the start of what would have been an arduous 9-12-month long journey to Batavia, the then capital of the former Dutch East Indies (now Jakarta, Indonesia). However, by the next day
Rooswijk had been driven onto the Goodwin Sands off the coast of Kent and subsequently broke up – sinking with no survivors. Passing into obscurity, it was not until 2005 that the ship was re-discovered following a search by recreational diver Ken Welling.
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GRAB your shovels new figures have revealed a record number of buried treasure troves were discovered in Cumbria in 2019. Fortune hunters and metal detectorists made 25 discoveries over the year, data from the British Museum and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport showed. It represented the largest haul since 2012, while a total of 95 finds were reported in Cumbria over that eight-year period. Jane Laskey, the manager at the Senhouse Roman Museum in Maryport, believed the finds helped to show the centuries of history in Cumbria. She said: “Because of Cumbria’s geography and it’s position in the nation, at one point it was in Scotland and then in England and now part of a united kingdom, which has a huge impact.
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A cheeky Georgian button depicting two people having sex is one of the many fascinating treasures which have emerged from the mud of the Thames.
The piece, which is believed to date back to the 18th-Century, was found by a mudlarker .
The term is given to the people who comb the 100-mile foreshore of the Thames and pick up objects and artefacts revealed in the mud by the twice daily changing tides.
Anna Borzello, 54, found the erotic miniature button, which is small enough it sits on a fingertip, earlier this year as she was walking along the river. I like the idea of someone having this really raunchy pin tucked underneath their collar that they would maybe flap up, she said.