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| If you keep digging and don’t call in the archaeologists when you know it’s Treasure you are “sacrificing what our society can learn about our past for the fleeting adrenalin / endorphins of ripping the treasure out of the ground”. Lovely, spot on. “These people obviously get a lot of pleasure from accepting the cheque” ... from an impoverished local museum that had to raise the dosh by public subscription from pensioners and schoolkids. Why can’t they at least take a lesser sum? “Yes it might be difficult to show a bit of self-restraint if you saw a gold torc sticking out of the ground.” But bear in mind, if you find one torc and an archaeological dig then finds 50 others you get rewarded for the sodding lot! “You may say 'oh we have to pay these people or it'll end up on ebay'” Well actually it won’t. If it’s Treasure it belongs to the State. Putting it on EBay would get you jailed. We however will give them an ex gratia reward amounting to the full value. So we’re the only buyers in town (other than the black market, for far less money) so it would never get sold elsewhere or melted down or wind up lonely in a shed. You’d think they’d be grateful, yet still a good percentage of them dig it all out and wreck all of the context and THEN call the archies and demand their rights (and a high percentage also appeal against the Treasure Panel’s valuation, trying to get more). Reply | with quote |  29th October 2011ce 10:27 In reply to: Re: bredon coins (Rhiannon) |
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