"IT WILL MAKE US RETHINK THE DARK AGES. THAT'S BASICALLY WHAT IT'S GOING TO DO." This story made me happy. One of those guys who wanders around with a beepy metal detector doohickey gets a ping from somewhere beneath a patch of his friend's farm somewhere in the English countryside, gets excited, starts to dig. But instead of finding some old sardine can, he unearths 1500 pieces of seventh century gold and silver -- the largest Anglo-Saxon treasure stash ever located. 55-year-old Brit Terry Herbert and the unidentified friend who owns the farm now get to split the proceeds when the treasure is officially valued and sold to a museum* -- likely seven figures each. Not a bad day's digging!
* Apparently the process is that a coroner had to certify the find as "treasure" to trigger this whole process. Wonder what that guy does the other 364 days of the year.
In other news, metal detector manufacturers throughout the world are ramping up production, stat.
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