Detektor revue 5/2015
Viking gold
An exclusive interview with Marie Larsen of Team Rainbow Power about the largest Viking gold hoard found in Denmark at the time of this 2015 issue.
Interview with an international finder
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Vikingské zlato
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Inside this issue
- 16 · My Great Treasure
- 20 · The Carpathians twenty years on…
- 27 · More gold than on Treasure Island
Historical introduction: prices, events and dates refer to the original publication.
Dear readers,
The latest issue of Detektor Revue is currently being printed and will soon be on its way to your letterboxes and your usual stockists. And, as always, we’re offering you a little preview here.
As is our tradition, we begin with our ‘Artefact of the Month’ feature, which this time features a German aerial navigation calculator. We have all, no doubt, heard about the discovery of the largest hoard of Viking gold in Danish history. We managed to secure an exclusive interview with one of the three finders from the Danish treasure-hunting club Team Rainbow Power, Marie Larsen, which we have titled ‘Treasure at the End of the Rainbow’. In the second part of our informal competition series, Luboš recalls his first ‘proper’ find, which was a Nagant M1895 revolver. This is followed by the report ‘A Land That Yields More Than Just Stone’, in which Čema reveals the secret hidden within an old watering can unearthed in the former Sudetenland.
“What amused you most whilst searching?” is the question we put to the treasure hunters in our regular ‘Poll’ section. Treasure hunter Veny 75 recounts his discovery of a bronze ‘piece of history’ in the article ‘My Great Treasure’. Following in the footsteps of the First World War battles in the Carpathians, our regular contributor acci sets out in his captivating ‘retro-report’ The Carpathians Twenty Years On…. A hoard of tourist badges gave the treasure hunter Kódl a glimpse into the history of a mountain cottage in the Šumava, and you can read about it in the report ‘Memories of Hrnčíř’. At the end of the war, the Germans hid an unimaginable quantity of gold, silver and precious stones from the advancing Red Army. You can read about how successfully treasure hunters in our western neighbour are searching for these treasures in the article ‘More Gold Than on Treasure Island’. The twenty-first instalment of Bedřich Přibil’s List of Czechoslovak Relics will take you to Svatá Hora (near Příbram).
The tenth instalment of Martin Furugláš’s numismatic series on the Koruna currency in Bohemia is devoted to the rarest Czech and Slovak circulation coins from 1918 to 1992. The regular column ‘Střípky’ brings reports on a unique Viking grave, the ‘Treasure in the Swimming Pool’ and the three-thousand-year-old graves near Prostějov. You can read about how even an ‘ordinary’ canteen can tell an extraordinary story in the article aptly titled ‘The Story of a Canteen’. Those interested in military technology will certainly welcome another study by the military technology historian Jan Škarka, this time on the subject of ‘Mortar turrets’. This instalment of our Advice Column is devoted to an artefact that one treasure hunter didn’t know what to make of, and its title probably says it all: Beware of ‘fejks’. And finally, we are all certainly looking forward to the third instalment of the diary of our fellow treasure hunter Jarda, who has been keeping a record since the 1990s – that is, from the pioneering days of metal-detecting in our country. We are reprinting it under the title The Treasure Hunter’s Testament.
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