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Sep 24, 2022
Gold Coins of Anglo-Saxon England
Tony Abramson's latest work, Gold Coins of Anglo-Saxon England, will be available from late October, but can be ordered now at a discounted price. Details are shown below. Fully illustrated in colour and comprehensively referenced, 160 pages, £30 (+P&P). Early-bird price before 22nd October 2022, £25 (+P&P). Available from late October 2022 from t.abramson@ntlworld.com Trade enquiries to Shaun Tyas of Paul Watkins Publishing, pwatkins@pwatkinspublishing.fsnet.co.uk In 1948,... -
Sep 21, 2022
Membership Account Deletion - Information
UKDFD membership accounts are only deleted if specifically requested by the account holder. Deletion of a membership account removes all applicable personal data from the database, but any associated records are retained. It is important to note that when an account is deleted, it is a permanent action and neither recovery of the account, nor re-association with affected records, is possible. Note! Expiry of a paid subscription does NOT result in removal of the member's account. Records... -
Jan 06, 2022
Image Requirements - A Reminder
As regular recorders will know, virtually all photos uploaded to the database are subject to image-processing to meet UKDFD requirements for quality of presentation. Simple processing, such as cropping the image, slightly rotating it or adjusting brightness are not an issue, but failure to observe some of the image recording guidelines can cause major problems and waste a considerable amount of time. If a background is textured, or an external shadow is cropped, for example, the time required... -
Nov 10, 2021
Coins Section, Category-Tree Update
When we originally configured the database (2005), we had to take a 'best guess' approach to creating the various categories into which each record would be placed. Our aim was to make the database as browsable as it is searchable. We have been pleased with our early decisions in this respect, but inevitably as the database has grown, some minor 'tweaking' has become desirable. This is particularly the case in the 'Coins' section, where finds are both chronologically and geographically more... -
Nov 01, 2021
New Book by Brian Read
Brian Read's latest book, Identifying Detector Finds, has just been published by Greenlight Publishing. The book features over 1700 individual artefacts, all beautifully hand-drawn and fully described, including find locations. Separate sections of the book cover mounts, animal furniture, religious objects, edged weapons and tools and their fittings, small tools and instruments, vessels and receptacles, jewellery and fasteners, personal objects, commerce objects, security objects, militaria,...
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