I’ve been to that castle, is a great one to visit

This is a horrible system. Plucking metal objects out of their context results in lots of archaeological knowledge lost - we'll never know the age and context of those finds!

The problem with that system, is there are without a doubt a bunch of dishonest detectorists who probably keep, and or sell their finds.

Even with regulations in Hungary, it's still a problemm

they still are going to keep their names differernt from english. But weren't those castles built specifically by the English to annex Wales?

It's just Welsh Vs English

Thank you! I will

Archeologists found that potters across the Wari empire all used the same rich black pigment to make ceramics used in rituals: a sign of the empire's influence.

When you say the owners can do with it as they please, do you mean the owners of the land the item was found on or the person who the item?

Any system that doesn’t reward people fairly for their find is a system that encourages black market sales.

I've been working on a map of western architecture for a while. I've noticed strange names for many of the places and wondered about it, then realized much of it started before the birth of nations, provinces and all that government stuff so they had to make place names unique so there wasn't confusion over places named the same things. or thats the theory I'm going with for now. also there are starting up a couple yt channels where they explore castles with drones which is a great way to see them.

A not insignificant part of it was irredentist claims to areas inhabited by various 'Germanic' peoples such as the Goths based on archaeology of the time. Areas covered by what are today termed the Wielbark and Chernyakhov archaeological cultures were associated with these 'germanic' people and seen as areas stolen during the migrations by, at present at least, the Slavs. Such as it was, during the invasion eastwards, various places were renamed like Simferopol to "Gotenburg" and Sevastopol to "Theodorichshafen", reflecting this ideological justification.

Post war the old völkisch ideas of migration faced heavy criticism (in no small due to their use in Nazi propaganda) seeing eventual reform with the origin of the Vienna school of thought and criticism of ethnoarchaeology such as Kramer's 1977 “Pots and Peoples”.

👏Came here looking for a reference

Is it known how much money the Wieliczka Salt Mine made on average in the 14th-15th century?

He was crowned as King of the Germans, and the Pope explicitly supported his election. But he was killed before he made the trip to Rome for the actual coronation as emperor (which would have been a massive military operation through enemy territory he had not been capable of before being killed).

Rest of Europe should look at the Danish system. We have a ton of people going around detecting in their free time and then turn their finds in.

I heard an interview with the historian who found these artefacts yesterday. Apparently there was a lot of quarrel that Friesland had with the state government down in Holland which resulted in many small scale battles and fights over the years. Since there weren’t banks at the time people that wanted to secure their stuff from being raided would bury it.

In the Netherlands, any treasure like this has to be split 50/50 with the owner of the property on which the find was made; they must also provide archeologists the opportunity to study the find in detail for at least six months; after which the owners are free to do with it as they please.

He was crowned by the pope and reigned the Holy roman-German reich between 1248 and 1256. Next to his countmanship of Holland and Zeeland 1234 - 1256.

Willem II was holy roman emperor wasn't he? Or at least anti-emperor

Nope that was Willem II of Holland, the father of Floris V. He was killed in 1256 indeed in Hoogwoud while fighting against the West-Frisians. I believe his horse collapsed and he was mangled by the locals who first had no idea who he was. After they found out the buried his body beneath a fireplace in one of the farmhouses.

His son Floris V revenged the dead of his father later in his life and killed a lot of West-Frisians, and been at war with them for a long time. Also builded a lot of castles surrounding the area from where he could easily attack them. O and he did recovered the remains of his father at some time in history .

Can someone recommend the best book on comparative greek and roman histories, perhaps with an emphasis on their falls?

Thanks for doing that :)

It's a nicely written article, enjoyed reading it.

At the risk of sounding like a Pedant, do you know why the names Conwy and Conway exist?

Wasn't there a Holy Roman Emperor who died in Hoogwoud too?

The model looks great too, I do like a good model.

Love this! Interesting comparison with today's practices