Episode 149 - Heritage crime watch: how we’re protecting our historic treasures
The English Heritage Podcast
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Metal Detection
If you find a hord of valuable items like this, it comes under the treasure act. It has to go be reported to the coroner. The best way to report these ones is as they did in the jersey halt. You know that wonderful collection of 70 thousand iron age coinsfo that had been brought across from france,. back in the iron age, round about time of the roman invasions. That's become known as the staffordshire hoarde. But terry did the right thing. He notified the landowner. And then, over a series of years, there has been proper excavation and analysis - not just of the finds, but of the fine spot. So that
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