User:Vera Seaton

Vera Seaton is the widow of Mr. Ted Seaton 1935 - 2001.

Vera and Ted were married for almost 35 years and owned The Mudlark collectors shop in Galgate, Barnard Castle when Ted found the Middleham Jewel. Ted was an amateur historian and loved to research history, he donated many of his finds to the local museums.

In the early 1980's he was walking on Scargill moor when he found a Celtic Amulet (The Seaton Amulet) which is a small polished stone with a hole in it for wearing as a pendant and has a carving of a horned God. He took this stone to Mr. Dennis Coggins of the Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle but it was not researched very thoroughly. It did not raise any great interest because the material is stone and it would seem that gold items are more interesting to most people. In spite of this Ted did contact Donald Cyr of Stonehenge Viewpoint and several articals were written about it.

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