The silver pepper pot is hollowed out, in the shape of a noble lady. At the base the pot can be turned to three sittings, one closed, one with small holes for sprinkling, and one open for filling the pot with ground pepper. (British Museum)
The silver pepper pot is hollowed out, in the shape of a noble lady. At the base the pot can be turned to three sittings, one closed, one with small holes for sprinkling, and one open for filling the pot with ground pepper. (British Museum)
I’m always fascinated by people in Britain stumbling upon caches of coins and artifacts.
All I ever stumbled upon were piles of arrowhead chippings...lol
One of the artifacts has “vivas in deo”, a Christian phrase common at the time.
The lady’s got Hillary Clinton eyes.
"Because no organic materials survived in the Hoxne hoard, radiocarbon can’t be used as a dating technique. Instead, archaeologists use the age of coins, which they arrive it by looking at inscriptions on the coin as well as the ruler depicted on its face.
Then farther down into the article we have this:
Surrounding the coins and gold objects were nails, hinges, locks, scraps of wood, bone and ivory. Some of the objects were packed with straw, while others were placed in smaller, leather-lined wood boxes.
(I'm sorry I couldn't help it)
In England the finder gets a good split, about 50%, I think.
In the U.S. treasure finders often get nothing if they report it to the authorities.
Sometime finders of fossils are prosecuted and jailed for preserving fossils that would otherwise have been destroyed by the elements.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/11016945/The-curse-of-the-8-million-dinosaur.html
