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Austrian authorities reveal find of buried treasure (650 years old)
Associated Press ^ | April 22, 2011 | GEORGE JAHN

Posted on 04/22/2011 6:43:33 PM PDT by decimon

VIENNA – A man turning dirt in his back yard stumbled onto buried treasure — hundreds of pieces of centuries-old jewelry and other precious objects that Austrian authorities described Friday as a fairy-tale find.

Austria's department in charge of national antiquities said the trove consists of more than 200 rings, brooches, ornate belt buckles, gold-plated silver plates and other pieces or fragments, many encrusted with pearls, fossilized coral and other ornaments. It says the objects are about 650 years old and are being evaluated for their provenance and worth.

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs; salttrade; salzburg
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To: Perdogg
"Was the Spear of Density included in the find?"

They found that one behind the desk in the oval office.

21 posted on 04/22/2011 7:37:08 PM PDT by Godebert
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To: muawiyah

Ah, the good ole days.


22 posted on 04/22/2011 7:37:23 PM PDT by arrogantsob
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To: Pharmboy

Yeah, I didn’t post those cuz they’re AP photos.


23 posted on 04/22/2011 7:37:32 PM PDT by decimon
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To: cradle of freedom
"Is this finders keepers?"

Here in America, many states have antiquities laws foisted upon us by archaeologists' influencd lawmakers who have placed a cut-off time limit for finds, after that length of time, the find becomes property of the state without any "finders' fee".

My state, NC, has set that limit at 100 years. If an item is or believed to be 101 years old or more, it is the state's.

24 posted on 04/22/2011 7:38:47 PM PDT by azhenfud (The government is not best which secures life and property-there is a more valuable thing-manhood.)
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To: Perdogg

I like the Spear of Density better.

Too, bad Trevor Ravenscroft is dead.


25 posted on 04/22/2011 7:40:16 PM PDT by arrogantsob
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To: MestaMachine
"Austria is the only european country that allows you to keep what you find. You turn it in, it’s cleaned, authenticated, and catalogued, and then it’s yours."

Guys with metal detectors have been digging this stuff up for years and selling it on ebay. I recently bought a batch of dirty crusty bronze Roman coins from some guy in Slovenia. There are literally tons of Roman treasure still buried across Europe.

26 posted on 04/22/2011 7:46:32 PM PDT by Godebert
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To: Perdogg

I think a Spear of Density would be a better weapon. ;-)


27 posted on 04/22/2011 7:48:09 PM PDT by PeaceBeWithYou (De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afghanistan and Iraq))
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To: azhenfud
Here in America, many states have antiquities laws foisted upon us by archaeologists' influencd lawmakers who have placed a cut-off time limit for finds, after that length of time, the find becomes property of the state without any "finders' fee".

Here in the rural West where most land is Federal land controlled by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), anything over 50 years-old is a relic. So if I threw an empty Coke bottle out into the desert from the window of my Dad's Buick back in 1960, I could now be arrested for going back to pick it up.

28 posted on 04/22/2011 7:51:37 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
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To: azhenfud

In Virginia if you dig it up on your own land it is yours, period. Sadly..that even includes GRAVES found on your land..they become YOUR PROPERTY. I know this because one was pillaged by the “church” who bought a portion of our family’s land. I assumed a church would keep in intact and had feared a developer would destroy it. Well, the church dug up the bodies and hauled them away and kept the Civil War era hand carved headstones. I tried for 3 yrs to do anything about it to be told...Sorry...they bought everything and anything when they bought that land.

Oh well....


29 posted on 04/22/2011 7:58:19 PM PDT by sevinufnine (Sevin - "If we do not fight when we know we can win, we'll have to fight when we know we will lose")
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To: decimon

That is some serious loot, the story of how it got there would be interesting. Robbers and rulers often one and the same.


30 posted on 04/22/2011 8:16:37 PM PDT by dog breath
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To: dog breath
That is some serious loot, the story of how it got there would be interesting. Robbers and rulers often one and the same.

I guess that burying your stuff was all you could do back then. A lot of good that did when one group or another came through slaughtering whoever was there.

31 posted on 04/22/2011 8:21:01 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

How cool is that???


32 posted on 04/22/2011 8:31:47 PM PDT by MsLady (Be the kind of woman that when you get up in the morning, the devil says, "Oh crap, she's UP !!")
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To: MsLady
How cool is that???

So cool I could stand some chill myself.

33 posted on 04/22/2011 8:36:03 PM PDT by decimon
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To: Perdogg; onedoug
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"You are my density."
34 posted on 04/22/2011 8:45:45 PM PDT by stylecouncilor (What Would Jim Thompson Do?)
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To: Pharmboy

Those things might be valuable to someone but they “sho’ is ugh-lay!”


35 posted on 04/22/2011 8:56:35 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. *4192*)
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To: Perdogg

I wish you had a DeLorean Time Machine so you could go back and change that post.


36 posted on 04/22/2011 9:14:18 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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To: decimon; Admin Moderator

Oh geez...sorry...did not know.


37 posted on 04/22/2011 10:16:47 PM PDT by Pharmboy (What always made the state a hell has been that man tried to make it heaven-Hoelderlin)
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To: Pharmboy

I wish we could see more pictures.


38 posted on 04/22/2011 10:55:41 PM PDT by malkee (Actually I'm an ex-smoker--more than four years now-- But I think about it every day.)
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To: SunkenCiv
I actually wish I had Delorean. I wonder if there are any around to retrofit with modern electronics and a new engine.
39 posted on 04/23/2011 7:26:35 AM PDT by Perdogg (0bama is the OJ Simpson of the American Economy)
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To: Perdogg

“Spear of Density”
I predict a new phrase in FReepin’ Lexicon.

Congratulations, Perdogg!


40 posted on 04/23/2011 10:33:36 AM PDT by bannie (( YAAAAY! ))
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