Shipwreck artefacts recovered off the coast of UK | BBC News

Britain's coasts are littered with shipwrecks, meaning thousands of haunting artefacts and in some cases - lucrative treasure - are resting on the sea floor.
Up to 300 items were found in 2023, a BBC Freedom of Information request revealed.
A 200-year-old elephant tusk, coins from the Spanish Armada, plane parts, iron swords and a jar of Marmite were among the items found and reported to the Receiver of Wreck last year.
Human bones, mammoth bones and a French-made 2.5 tonne 17th Century bronze cannon were also on the list.
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[@TheSteveRobinson]

Journalists should be able to spell ARTIFACT, instead of a mystery word like "artefact".

[@Jedi1993]

Yep, noticed that one too 🤣

[@Chad-Giga.]

Arrrrrrrrr’ tea facts!!! -pirate 🏴‍☠️

[@dcallan812]

its the BBC what do you expect! 🤦‍♂🤣 You would think they would use a spell checker, its not difficult. 👍👍

[@maureenm8462]

I think its unfair that someone finds something and gets in to trouble if they keep it, finders keepers but not in cases like this.

[@anton__84]

I ain’t telling nobody it’s mine my precious

[@zanesmith666]

dont report it, they can't fine you if they don't know about it

[@frankjames7272]

and no one is gonna buy it from them knowing it can be confiscated.

[@steinarjakobsen4947]

Belongs in a museum

[@AmericanBulldog-kx1fz]

Strange comment.

[@markhepworth]

Nobody’s fining you anyway you muppet..🤦‍♂️😆

[@robertduncan6361]

Look up "Treasure trove laws". Anything found, whether it's gold, silver or even a strange bit of old iron, you should report because it might be of national importance. Museum experts will identify the items and give you a full written & illustrated report free of charge. Most stuff museums don't really want and will hand back to you, but if they want it, the items would be valued by a panel of independent experts to assess a full market value which will then be paid to the finder. Any human bones found should be handed in to a local police station who will then send all or any bones to a team of idiots in Dundee to decide whether they are modern (perhaps victims of crime) or ancient. If Bones you find are a light colour, yes, take them to the police, if dark DO NOT GIVE THEM TO THE POLICE ; because if they are ancient important artifacts, the philistine idiots at Dundee will either steal them for their own collections, lose them or destroy them, no matter how historically important they are they simply won't return them. This isn't just my experience but that of every amateur archaeologist, mudlark or chance finder I've ever met.

[@morganbartfield5457]

its sad that if these people never found these items they would still lay there rotting away, yet the govt doesn't believe they should be allowed any financial benefit from their hard work and time.

[@dr2stroke611]

the Govt doesnt want anybody to have anything and it doesnt make any difference which Govt it is

[@richard308]

​@@dr2stroke611totally agree and that's why it takes flo so long to come back to people with decent finds, they gotta check what it's worth to them first and if it may reveal any of there secrets unfortunately

[@ProgressiveGoldbug]

Imagine the number found that weren’t declared…..

[@frankjames7272]

Imagine .

[@abercul7698]

BBC News of all organizations should know that BONES, especially HUMAN BONES are NOT relics. Those human bones were a son, husband, a father and NOT some piece of old decor or old jar. They went down with those things and drown. Their families never saw them again and never knew what happen to them either. That's SAD.

[@zack3706]

I’m not reporting shit to you! Absolutely not

[@matthewturan9343]

This is awesome. Great video. I found mammoth teeth in Kentucky USA

[@claudethibaudeau2714]

I find this kind of stuff very fascinating. I wonder if underwater treasures far exceeds treasures found on land 🤔

[@dcallan812]

In metals like gold and silver probably. But its over such a vast area currently its not economical to recover 👍👍

[@davidpowell6098]

I believe most of our history is located at the closer parts of the coastline that is under water, the sea levels have risen over the Centuries, and historically people lived by the coast.

[@richard308]

Wich would mean there further out no?

[@Rodericken]

Would never report, fuck the gov.

[@gmalda]

300,000 years……. I don’t know….

[@markusdowney5457]

so im just finding out now somehow ar·ti·fact is artefacts in plural form? what?

[@stellamcwick8455]

Artefact is the common spelling in British English

[@tonys1636]

OED - Artefact, a man made object. From Latin, arte - by art + factum - made.

[@therollingwheelz]

as people who found it......when reporting it....what is it for founder??? they got nothing?? information is expensive when talking about artefact.

[@erikowren7894]

I don’t this system

[@richardcollins9856]

Always sell your finds privately if you want the actual value. The Authorities and Government will give you less than half of what it is actually worth and they will also drag you though a long and frustraing process.

[@richard308]

Very correct about the long process, most I no are still waiting on a decision if its actually tresure 4 yrs on, it obviously is but they need to decide how to offer the least possible and how to de value it whilst checking there's nothing else in the area it was found before deciding. It's all a joke, they force folk to be dis honest

[@nexpro6985]

Yes but only one Lego octopus was found!

[@thewolfofswingthat2035]

Andrea hamel has some really good facial features!

[@daviecrocket9160]

Ahh yes ofcourse the slave trade... Was it the barbary pirates by any chance?

[@itchycooable]

not supposed to mention them

[@garethmiles9984]

Perhaps some license fee cash should be spent on spelling lessons instead of overpaying twonks like slimy viney🙄

[@beewa8840]

The ivory needs to be in a museum. Slavery is of historical significance, therefore this ivory, said to be linked to slavery, is of historical significance.

[@jamroast]

Not all ivory came from Africa or the slave trade, much is pre-historic and from sediment deposits or from Asia.

[@beewa8840]

@@jamroast The report said this ivory is linked to the slave trade.

[@DinorwicSongwriter]

He means it needs to be in a museum where there are people with the knowledge and skill to save it from the salt eating it.

[@desperadochrome5950]

People things England stole they was too heavy

[@markhepworth]

Not much schooling little buddy..?

[@eArtrash]

Englishman can't English

[@AaronsAnglingJourney]

😮

[@jeeshadow]

what the heck is a kippuh?

[@zerocompanyhq]

Essentially, a kipper is a Herring that has been spatchcocked before being smoked. Very tasty 🎣🐟 Whist on the subject of tasty things; Heck is a very good brand of tasty sausages.

[@thomasshepard6030]

Are you serious

[@julia2k8]

💀

[@VocalChainsStudio]

Ah yes, jacuzzis falling off of superyachts, vestiges of late stage capitalism.

[@kanuck2003]

Try word check Artefact or artifacts ?

[@stellamcwick8455]

Artefact is the common spelling in British English

[@Randomstuffs261]

You might want to check *Artefact* in the English dictionary yourself

[@lexruptor]

*artifacts

[@floorks]

Artifact is the American spelling whereas Artefacts is used in British spelling

[@trevorsutherland5263]

Only 300 years old? Meh, mildly interesting.... Wake me when the 3000 year old ship is found

[@elliottgotaheadache1217]

money hunt

[@joshuaakotia9011]

Artifacts fool

[@jazzeroo8885]

An artefact is a man made object, such as pieces of art or tools, that is of particular cultural, historical or archaeological interest. You illiterate.

[@markhepworth]

Or Artefacts.

[@joshuaakotia9011]

@@markhepworth lol

[@joseaugustofigueiredo2796]

And the question is! Worth a black coconut! Did England fully trust the Democratic United States? Since it took a while to go to war and did not declare war on Nazism, it was Hitler who declared war on the United States, after the United States declared war on Japan. Declassified documents reveal that USSR knew in advance about US nuclear tests Even before July 1945, the Soviet Union's Intelligence Service received information about the first US atomic bomb test and its detailed design, as well as about the US production of nuclear "explosives", declassified Intelligence Service documents reveal. External Intelligence (SVR, its acronym in Russian). Experts consider obtaining the information that helped create a Soviet nuclear weapon the "largest known intelligence operation in the Soviet Union, and perhaps in world history." Foreign and military intelligence in Moscow received from its agents in the USA, UK and other countries necessary information that allowed the Soviet Union to quickly create its own atomic bomb and thus end the US monopoly in this area

[@HandyMan657]

What are rambling on about here? What does any of that have to do with the topic of the video?

[@AmericanBulldog-kx1fz]

Copy....and paste.

[@joseaugustofigueiredo2796]

Just like Biden in the back of the White House, printing and copying dollars.

[@auro1986]

bbc got ivory now digging for gold

[@FamousActor_AlPacenis]

Imagine being the social media manager for BBC and not being able to spell or use spell check. That’s like 2 or 3 times this week. That should be embarrassing for a news agency.

[@kristoffermangila]

Buddy, that's how Brits spell artifact in British English... "ARTEFACT".

[@markhepworth]

Imagine spending all your time thinking the mutated way Americans spell things is actual English...

[@kristoffermangila]

@@markhepworth that's the result of America's dominance in terms of popular culture around the world, to the point that even to other nationalities, American English is the "definitive" version of English.

[@FamousActor_AlPacenis]

@@markhepworth We own the language now. Color doesn’t have a u. You English ride our coat tails ever since we bailed you out of 2 World Wars. If it wasn’t for America you’d be speaking German. So go eat mushy peas and zip it. Americans are talking. Nobody cares about the British.

[@Mrratongthailand]

Defundthebbc

[@user-di7gc3kl6f]

All the Stolen things from Africa Bones from slaves,all kinds of things