3,000-year-old Bronze Age chisel and dagger hoard is declared as treasure

[garryson]

[h=3]A 3,000-year-old Bronze Age chisel and knife blade found by two amateur metal detectorists have been formally declared as treasure.
[/h]Matthew Hepworth and David Kierzek unearthed the tanged chisel, knife blade, and two fragments of bronze slag during a find at Bolton-le-Sands, near Lancaster, in February 2013.



Read more: https://www.lep.co.uk/news/people/3...-lancaster-is-declared-as-treasure-1-10181892

 

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[BillA]

treasure ? (desirable artifact, for sure)
ok, but we have posters here from other countries who sell this stuff where it is legal

 

[Sheldon J]

Huge +1 in the UK anything they want to take, they call it "Treasure Trove" and the finder get a % of the real value....

treasure ? (desirable artifact, for sure)
ok, but we have posters here from other countries who sell this stuff where it is legal

 

[BillA]

its all about 'legal', and we don't get to define that
here in Costa Rica it all belongs to the state, is that better ?
(better than what/where ?)

 

[Bum Luck]

I wonder if archaeologists go out to where this was found and dig around looking for spider jaws, cockroach shells, and mouse toenails?

If not, we could donate some of ours, if the Brits would have them.

 

[Plumbata]

The link didn't really work for me, pics of the other finds can be found here: https://digventures.com/barrowed-time/virtual-museum/morecambe-hoard/

Honestly, aside from the simple tanged chisel everything was basically junk from a collector's standpoint. The chisel is nice enough but a common style for the Isle and would go for less than 100 bucks even on a good day if the examples I've seen sell are used as a reference.

It's an interesting find and hopefully the Archies actually do their job and squeeze some additional prehistorical context from the site, but seriously it's gotta be the most pitiful "treasure hoard" I've ever seen from the UK.

 

[A2coins]

That's just cool lucky people