> From: Greg Hupe <[email protected]>
>
> think also that the true story is all about good luck and
> the willingness to get permission and agreements from
> property owners!
>
It is more than that. It is also an example of common sense historical artifact
laws at work. Britain has constructed their artifact laws in such a way that it
is in a finders best interest to report all of their findings (It is also
illegal to not report your findings but that dont really give you much
incentive and wont work anyway).
As a result whenever artifact or coin hoards get found in UK everybody who is
interested gets to study them and learn as much history as possible from the
stash. And the actual finder gets more money for them than if he tried to sell
them in secret on the UNESCO black market (Probably has to pay taxes on the
sale of the hoard also). Finder, science, general public, government, land
owners - everybody wins with british cultural property laws.
If this stash of gold was found in Italy, Israel, Egypt or Peru, the site would
have been very quickly destroyed behond recognition and reburied (After dark
and probably all in one night) to hide any evidence of the sites existance, and
the gold melted down, stamped Johnson matthey and (With the governments full
blessing) shipped out of the country.
Rather than being studied by researchers as this hoard will be, it would have
gone on the next fed ex flight out and went directly from the archaeological
site to a swiss bank vault.
It would have been UNESCO at work
Sincerely
DEAN
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