on his first day out with his metal detector enthusiast David Booth took just seven paces from where he had parked the car and found a £1million hoard of Iron Age jewellery that is Scotland’s most important find in a century, Mr Booth, 35, found four gold necklaces – known as ‘torcs’ – buried just six inches beneath the surface in a field near Stirling,
up until his amazing find, he had only switched the £240 gadget on to ‘detect’ knives and forks in his own kitchen as practice, the find was in five pieces – three intact necklets and two fragments of another torc, all gold and silver alloy with a touch of copper,
all the pieces date to between 300 and 100 BC, the Stirling find appears to reveal links between local tribes — traditionally seen as isolated — and other Iron Age people in Europe, as the jewellery was analysed, the site of the find also yielded more information, experts found the remnants of a wooden roundhouse, Dr David Caldwell of the Scottish Treasure Trove Unit, said that the torcs would ‘definitely’ stay in Scotland, He added: ‘There hasn't been a find like this in Scotland for over 100 years, it is fair to say that this is very much bigger and better in terms of value and appeal than anything we have seen for a very long time,
what a lucky chap, I wonder if I should ask him to buy me a lottery ticket!
Thursday 5 November 2009
I Love Stories Of When Ordinary People Find Riches,
and this is one of them,
on his first day out with his metal detector enthusiast David Booth took just seven paces from where he had parked the car and found a £1million hoard of Iron Age jewellery that is Scotland’s most important find in a century, Mr Booth, 35, found four gold necklaces – known as ‘torcs’ – buried just six inches beneath the surface in a field near Stirling,
up until his amazing find, he had only switched the £240 gadget on to ‘detect’ knives and forks in his own kitchen as practice, the find was in five pieces – three intact necklets and two fragments of another torc, all gold and silver alloy with a touch of copper,
all the pieces date to between 300 and 100 BC, the Stirling find appears to reveal links between local tribes — traditionally seen as isolated — and other Iron Age people in Europe, as the jewellery was analysed, the site of the find also yielded more information, experts found the remnants of a wooden roundhouse, Dr David Caldwell of the Scottish Treasure Trove Unit, said that the torcs would ‘definitely’ stay in Scotland, He added: ‘There hasn't been a find like this in Scotland for over 100 years, it is fair to say that this is very much bigger and better in terms of value and appeal than anything we have seen for a very long time,
what a lucky chap, I wonder if I should ask him to buy me a lottery ticket!
on his first day out with his metal detector enthusiast David Booth took just seven paces from where he had parked the car and found a £1million hoard of Iron Age jewellery that is Scotland’s most important find in a century, Mr Booth, 35, found four gold necklaces – known as ‘torcs’ – buried just six inches beneath the surface in a field near Stirling,
up until his amazing find, he had only switched the £240 gadget on to ‘detect’ knives and forks in his own kitchen as practice, the find was in five pieces – three intact necklets and two fragments of another torc, all gold and silver alloy with a touch of copper,
all the pieces date to between 300 and 100 BC, the Stirling find appears to reveal links between local tribes — traditionally seen as isolated — and other Iron Age people in Europe, as the jewellery was analysed, the site of the find also yielded more information, experts found the remnants of a wooden roundhouse, Dr David Caldwell of the Scottish Treasure Trove Unit, said that the torcs would ‘definitely’ stay in Scotland, He added: ‘There hasn't been a find like this in Scotland for over 100 years, it is fair to say that this is very much bigger and better in terms of value and appeal than anything we have seen for a very long time,
what a lucky chap, I wonder if I should ask him to buy me a lottery ticket!
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I saw the news about that guy who found all the Iron Age jewellery. I wonder how much he'll be able to keep.
Dear Elliot, the laws concerning the finding of valuables was covered under the Treasure Trove Law, but this law was different in Scotland and England, because it was sometimes unfair all new finds are now covered under the 1996 Treasure Act, the problem being I do not know if this act applies to Scotland or not which is where the treasure was found, if you look here, http://www.finds.org.uk/treasure/treasure_summary.php
you can see a summary of the Treasure Act, (the full Act is 167 pages long!) but back to your question, I would think that museums would pay the market price to the finder, then typically the finder and landowner would have signed a 50/50 split on the proceeds, going by the article about half a million each, as I said lucky chap! best regards, Stan and Diana.
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