Sonny's Castle Dangerous

Brace yourself: tonight I tackle a task I've long avoided. I'm going to explain Emerson Lake and Palmer’s “Karn Evil 9.” As ever...

Exploring Irish farmland with his metal detector, this retiree uncovered a Viking gold ingot. It's estimated to be over a thousand years...

UK paperback  (C) Quercus, 2012 Quercus; 2012; 435 pages The second in the Lewis trilogy set in Scotland’s outer Hebrides, this is ...

I have exciting news. It’s about… gold. That’s right, gold. I’m talking gold here. I’m hoping to discover a hoard of gold coins soon, like t...

This month's Playboy magazine (yes, I still subscribe) reprints a 1974 interview with Hunter Thompson, which concludes with the followi...

A construction worker found these gold coins hidden in the attic of a building undergoing renovation in Les Riceys, France. They were probab...

It was my first day in a new high school. I was searching for the place to pick up my class schedule. It seemed very important that I know...

368 pages SilverOak, October 2012 I read a lot of fiction. But seldom does a book grab and hold me like The Blackhouse . Once the story ...

Life would definitely be a lot less rewarding without reading (and writing). I read 22 books in 2012, less than in previous years. Perhaps t...

Touchstone, 2011, 432 pages I found this historical novel to be as well-written and entertaining as The Other Boleyn Girl and The Other...

Yet another ancient coin hoard has come to light. Last month, a patient guy with a metal detector discovered the largest hoard of Roman coin...

The September 29 issue of The Economist contains an article with this headline: "The Faint Smell of Dog Fart" . The story, which i...

512 pp;  Chicago Review Press, 2008 ISBN-10:   1556527594 In this episode in Rosemary Sutcliff's fine Arthurian novel Sword at Suns...

The English knight William Marshall was regent of England under Henry III, as mentioned in  a previous post, The Brussels Hoard . In this t...

The Brussels Hoard of 1908 The Long Cross Coinage of Henry III by Ron Churchill and Bob Thomas Baldwin’s and the British Numismatic So...

The Steel Bonnets: The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers by George MacDonald Fraser Barrie and Jenkins, 1971, 384 pages In his ...

Bearing out the truth of a previous post: hidden mysteries abound in England. Here we have a true story from the Daily Telegraph (London). W...

St. Martin's Press 320 pages; February 28, 2012 On one level this is a boarding school story and a coming-of-age novel. That’s go...

Edmund Leighton (1900) Some may call this sentimental, kitschy, or worse. But still, there's something about it...

Metal detector hobbyists have discovered a hoard of Celtic coins in the Channel Islands. And it's a big hoard. Imagine digging a hol...