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Kid’s find valuable artifact near Hipditch House
May 09th, 2010
Artifact indicates Newfoundland's worth to British Empire
Steve Bartlett The Telegram, May 5th, 2007
While exploring in the Signal Hill area last month, Philip Wangersky and Liam Delaney spied a round, pewter object in a crevice on Gibbet Hill. Sized somewhere between a nickel and a quarter, the 13-year-olds thought it was money, perhaps a valuable old coin. But the historian who examined the piece suggests its worth is not monetary - it turned out to be a button off an 18th-century soldier's uniform. Dr. Bernard Ransom is curator of military history at The Rooms. He thinks the significance is that it represents the value Britain once placed on Newfoundland. Read More>>