[MEGoody]

Jobless Man Uncovers Gold Hoard with Metal Detector. . .

Obama administration sends IRS enforcers to seize wealth.

[ravingnutter]

Wow...that's an idea. My Hubby is unemployed. I told him about some clinical trials yesterday that were paying up to $1200 for participants and he [jokingly] accused me of trying to donate his body to science before he is even dead, LOL! He didn't like my idea of putting him on the street corner panhandling either. What am I going to do with him? {wink, wink}

[Reddy]

A person may legally enter private property, dig something up and keep it?

Wow

[goseminoles]

They had to call the coroner in? Am I missing something?

[nina0113]

It has its own website:

http://www.staffordshirehoard.org.uk/

[uscabjd]

What does the guy get for his efforts? How about the owner of the land?

[WoofDog123]

Looks roughly to have been in Mercia - maybe related to Offa?

[WoofDog123]

“The hoard contains in excess of 1500 objects made from various metals - 5kg of gold and 1.3kg of silver - by contrast the Sutton Hoo find contained 1.66kg of precious metals.”

Just stunning.

[wildbill]

I’d put forwrd this general proposition: You don’t bury a hoard like this and run off without coming back for it unless you are prevented from doing so by war or sudden death.

I’d try to date it and then see what warfare was going on in the neighborhood at that time.

[SunkenCiv]

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