[rogueleader]

I don't know who will get to keep the treasure, but I can tell you one thing for sure. This is every property law professor's wet dream of a case.

Possible angles include:

* Who owns the coins under Roman law? Would Roman law apply?

* Would the intervening years between the Roman Empire and the Norman conquest of England in 1066 have any legal effect on the coins?

* If the English law courts find that the coins belong to the crown, could the landowner maintain an action for unjust enrichment against the crown, seeing that it was the landowner who performed the important and valuable service of finding the coins?

* and so on ad infinitum

[Winniesboy]

This is every property law professor's wet dream of a case.

No, The ancient law of Treasure Trove (which is why a Coroner is involved) makes these questions very clear. Treasure Trove laws precede 'government' (in the modern sense) by centuries.