In before the pissing, moaning, and whining about the UK treasure trove law.
Early Medieval silver and niello brooch Photograph: British Museum
Early Medieval silver and niello brooch Photograph: British Museum
Has Rome asked for the return of these artifacts?
Uh, “metal detectorists”? There’s an ideology called metal detectorism?
I think the UK metal detecting rules are great.
Promotes folks out there searching for stuff.
Cool stuff gets found.
If it is not of interest to the government museums, the detectorist gets to keep it. I imagine they make a deal with the landowner first - or maybe there is a law on the split.
Hmm - what is the deal on public lands?
And, if the government thinks the find is historically of interest - they pay the detectorist a fair price.
My wife got me a decent metal detector years ago. It hasn’t received much use, except I did find a phone dropped in the woods by a friend. Most public parks and stuff you can’t use them.
I am guessing that all this treasure were from people running for their lives and they buried it hoping to come back later to retrieve it. They never did so you can guess their violent fate.
