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- From: ckp2n@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Christina Powell)
- Subject: Re: Roman Treasure Found
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.155336.18639@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Organization: University of Virginia
- References: <1992Nov21.115908.28155@ulrik.uio.no>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 15:53:36 GMT
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- rivero writes:
- > In article <1992Nov20.091358.27031@reed.edu> Iain Odlin, odlin@reed.edu writes:
- > > Would that we could all be as lucky as the gentleman who found this trove.
- > > His "reward" (finder's fee?) is potentially greater than a million, and he
- > > found the hammer he started out looking for, too!
- >
- > I dont know of British laws, but I suposse that if the archeological
- > patrimony is protected, then to look for "treasures" will be illegal.
- >
- > Then, this "clandestino" need some argument to explain what was he
- > doing with a detector. It seems obvious when you have heard some
- > histories on archeological research.
- > This finding could result in a hard hit for Britain archeological areas.
- > I would know how have detectors selling increased this week.
-
- What he was doing (someone kindly e-mailed me an article on this)
- was looking for a hammer he had lost in his garden. Innocent
- enough.
-
- And the state (or possibly the Queen) gets it all.
-