Beautiful craftsmanship indeed.
Perhaps that is why “the Crown” gets first dibs on the treasure in spite of who owns the land or who finds it.
If there were some Roman artifacts among those, would Italy get their fair shot at confiscating the artifacts as well?
What ever happened to finders keepers?
The UK government has the last word on any antiquity. They go through the motions of having a third party place a value on the find but this is typically done by a museum, funded by government.