Reader donates Treasure to museum

We always like to highlight the good work of detectorists and particularly when they work together with landowners for the benefit of their local communities. Even more so in this case as the detectorist in question is a friend of this website.

This week, I read a piece from the Treasure Registrars thanking a Tyndall Jones and the landowner for waiving a reward and donating a Treasure find to a local museum. I thought I know that name but I’ll just check that’s who I think it is. He emailed me back “Yes, you got the right Tyndall Jones. Mind, having a “Tyndall” as a Christian  name does somewhat shorten the odds so to speak!“

Tyndall found the silver strap end, which dates to circa AD 900-1100, near Arundel in West Sussex in 2020. It was recorded at the PAS as SUSS-0ED31C and was later declared Treasure. The PAS report says “The form has its roots in Carolingian forms but the style originates in Southeast England and appears on a range of media including metalwork, sculpture and illuminated manuscripts dating to the 10th and 11th centuries“

The find is now on display at Littlehampton museum. A spokesperson for the museum said “You can see this wonderful item in the Museum in our Treasures Case“