I’m a metal detectorist and was shocked by stash of smutty items I found in ditch
IT seems XXX marked the spot as a metal detectorist stumbled on a stash of smutty magazines.
Dean Pugh was hoping for a hoard of ancient artefacts.
Instead he found a pile of porn dumped in a ditch.
Plasterer Dean, 54, was trawling farmland with son Owen, 26, in a bid to unearth priceless treasure like the Anglo Saxon haul found at Sutton Hoo in the 1930s.
The grandad said: “If you find a hoard they can go into millions of pounds — but the nearest I’ve got is my new porno stash.
“I think it’s either some young lad who has had to dump his mags because his parents found out, or a perv in the woods. We were just hunting and I saw this load of colour staring at me. It dazzled me.
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“I thought it was a pile of magazines that had been dumped — I don’t like people dumping rubbish — but on closer inspection I said: ‘Owen! Come and look at this!’.
“They were awfully damp, they had been left out in the weather, no doubt.
“We ended up rolling them up and hiding them in a rabbit hole.”
Dean, of Pershore, Worcs, posted about the find near Bromsgrove on Facebook.
He said: I had messages saying ‘I bet you never got home ’till seven o’clock’.”
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Meanwhile others offered him up to £100 for the mucky mags.
Dean has previously found sex toys, women’s underwear and even dumped marijuana while metal detectoring.
In 2019 he dug up a WW2 pilot’s watch in a field near Solihull and returned it to descendants.