[meteorite-list] OT - Gold Hoard Found in England

From: Rob McCafferty <rob_mccafferty_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:32:30 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <919614.41792.qm_at_web55205.mail.re4.yahoo.com>

It's also worth pointing out that UK law is generally pretty generous regarding prospecting.

If you own the land, anything you find on it belongs to you.

The exceptions are Gold and Silver.

If you find them, either as mineral deposits or as relics, they are automatically owned by the Crown (read State)
This guy may have found this stuff but I doubt very much whether he will see a single penny from his find.

I hope he isn't expecting anything other than his name next to a museum exhibit because he's not going to get it.

Rob McC





--- On Thu, 9/24/09, dean bessey <deanbessey at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: dean bessey <deanbessey at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] OT - Gold Hoard Found in England
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Thursday, September 24, 2009, 10:46 PM
> > From: Greg Hupe <gmhupe at htn.net>
> >
> > think also that the true story is all about good luck
> and
> > the willingness to get permission and agreements from
> > property owners!
> >
> It is more than that. It is also an example of common sense
> historical artifact laws at work. Britain has constructed
> their artifact laws in such a way that it is in a finders
> best interest to report all of their findings (It is also
> illegal to not report your findings but that dont really
> give you much incentive and wont work anyway).
> As a result whenever artifact or coin hoards get found in
> UK everybody who is interested gets to study them and learn
> as much history as possible from the stash. And the actual
> finder gets more money for them than if he tried to sell
> them in secret on the UNESCO black market (Probably has to
> pay taxes on the sale of the hoard also). Finder, science,
> general public, government, land owners - everybody wins
> with british cultural property laws.
> If this stash of gold was found in Italy, Israel, Egypt or
> Peru, the site would have been very quickly destroyed behond
> recognition and reburied (After dark and probably all in one
> night) to hide any evidence of the sites existance, and the
> gold melted down, stamped Johnson matthey and (With the
> governments full blessing) shipped out of the country.
> Rather than being studied by researchers as this hoard will
> be, it would have gone on the next fed ex flight out and
> went directly from the archaeological site to a swiss bank
> vault.
> It would have been UNESCO at work
> Sincerely
> DEAN?
>
>
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