Posted on 10/28/2011 9:00:44 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Treasure trove: Darren Webster uncovered a 1,000-year-old casket containing 200 pieces of silver jewellery, coins, hacksilver and ingots while using his metal detector in Cumbria... Brian Randall, chairman of the Lune Valley Metal Detecting Club, said: 'We are all thrilled for Darren and wish it was us. 'No one goes out looking for hoards but it's very nice if you do find one.'
...Oxford University anthropology lecturer, Stephen Oppenheimer, said big hoards such as this paint a new picture of what Vikings were doing in England...
Local archaeologist Steve Dickinson, of Ulverston, said the hoard was 'extremely important nationally'.
He said: 'Any hoard is always rare and therefore of national importance but because of its size and detail this is particularly exciting.'
...A spokesperson for Carlisle's Tullie House Museum, where the hoard was originally taken, compared Mr Webster's find to that of the Cuerdale Hoard found on the southern bank of a bend of the River Ribble in 1840, the largest Viking silver hoard in north-western Europe.
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“uncovered a 1,000-year-old casket containing 200 pieces of silver jewellery, coins, hacksilver and ingots”
What is the time limit on when it ceases to be grave robbing?
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