Monday, November 01, 2004

Our Treasure?

The British Museum is imploring eBay to stop the auction of artifacts found by plucky British individuals armed with metal detectors.  Old roman coins, gold and silver rings, and other metal objects from ancient times, which evidently litter the British landscape, are found in the thousands all over Britain, and, according to British law at least, this “treasure” is the property of Britain.

Evidently the treasures of the British empire are not all collected, yet.

“Don’t sell our lost treasure on eBay, begs museum"

Posted by John Venlet on 11/01 at 04:53 AM
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