What Happens in the Real World If You Find a Buried Treasure?
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Happy Thanksgiving lol
A watch... Why wear a watch nowadays? I mean, we all have the time on our phones...
A job beckons on QVC :)
Speaking of plowing and finding things you all should do a story on the Iron Harvest in France where they plow up WW I shells in the fields still today.
@@mugwump7049 Watches are jewelry nowadays, and not in a bad way. Wearing a watch gives people an impression that you're more time oriented and structured. If it's a mechanical watch, then you've got a conversation piece and something that can show others your appreciation towards the melding of engineering, mechanics, and aesthetic design.
Also in many social situations, it's a lot less disrespectful to look at your watch than whip out your phone.
"Family heirloom" is the proper response when asked where you got something.
Why do you have the crown jewels?
Family heirloom of course
It was passed down through generations of my family your honour 😏
@@nojnavick
Pretty sure they know where those are.
And if somebody asks or thinks that's too strange I'd reply " well I never specified who's family it was an heirloom for".
Correct
With all these laws in place, you have to wonder how many "lost" treasures have been found, but just never reported.
Hopefully many
one example from Austria: the last year metal detecting was legal everywhere in Austria and you had a claim to own the objects, over 42000 found coins were reported - the first year it was more or less illegal, under 300 coins were reported.
The state confiscating treasure is incredibly stupid: of course it discourages treasure finders from reporting their finds. The UK system makes a LOT more sense.
@@patpowers9210 I have never found anything of worth but I do like our system in the UK, pretty much it does work, you declare it, you get full monetary value legally from the British Museum/ government, which works especially as the goal is money after all for many :)
Keeping it for yourself runs risks, as especially you cannot report it if stolen.....
@@philastley8040 Keeping it for yourself runs risks, but in much of the US, reporting it creates a virtual certainty that you will lose.
People who know how to keep their mouths shut can get away with a lot
Yep
Maybe in other countries, but as Simon stated, our country (UK- England) is generous to us, not stealing it but well, a forced buy but millions in your bank and fame. Decisions decisions....
@@philastley8040 well not here in the us
@@outofcontext728 US laws are weird, liberty and freedom for all, unless you find something we want then fuck you lol
In England it gets taken by the crown as is the law, but you do get fully compensated for it and the choice is hiding it in a cupboard for decades on the risk of losing it vs potentially hundreds of thousands of pounds and seeing it displayed in a museum, I am not sure of the laws but I think the finders get to see it up close and personally while they are doing their research.
SHOW ME THE MONEY!!!
@@philastley8040 The people who still believe that the US is a free country have #1. not come into the notice of a bureaucrat somewhere or #2. haven't been through the covid panic. Covid pretty much exposed how little control the average person has in political decisions. Or any decisions.
Government: “No you don’t get to keep the treasure you find, we NEED it for research.”
Also Government: “Which one of you museums want to buy this piece from us?”
If your point is about governments being greedy, okay, but given that lots of archeological research goes on through museums, it's not actually like the government would be lying?
@@dimapez To incentivise people to sell to science, rather than to scrap metal dealers, probably.
Museums don't buy, they take donations
@@dimapez so basically "no treasure has ever been found by the fins"
In the "real world" if you find buried treasure, you keep your big mouth shut about it while you look for an equally closed mouth buyer.
Sell it one piece at a time to a collector and say it's a family heirloom. I usually say it's from the War of 1812 (the suppression of history by politicians has its advantages). Also, HIDE THE LOOT! Hide it where only YOU know where it is. And never tell them you have more. There's a reason it's called 'buried treasure'.
@@SBaby What do you mean "usually"?
@@SBaby cooool :) *wink*
Lionel Hutz: It's a thorny legal issue, all right. I'll need to refer to the case of Finders v. Keepers.
In the real world, finding buried treasure = “what buried treasure?”
Exactly
@John Ashtone Exactly what I have posted throughout much of these comments, in England you are far better off declaring such finds because rather than being assholes the UK is actually surprisingly fair in this instance, yes....the government moves in and archaeological teams and what-not, but as the registered finder you are almost certainly awarded the value....hell, if choice was in selling an artifact black market for 30% of the value or 100% of the value I would choose the latter, especially since then it is fully legal even if you had to split it and only end up with 50% after a year of deliberation lol
Even if you have to share the split with the landholder and you get less than you could off the black market, it is worth it because then you can then be free in the knowledge that the millions you got was all above board and no one can ever come next week and take it...
Imagine this, you do your research, figure out an area was the site of a big battle, go through old records and long lost surveys and find out that oak tree has been around for centuries, you dig it up and end up with 100kg of gold. You 'steal' it from the landowner (which is rightfully his because you are digging up his land) and someone talks and you find your prize taken away....you get nothing. Contrast this with asking for permission from the landholder to split, (I don't know the law on this if they decide to disallow you and then dig it up themselves after you did all the research, would this be antitrust?) and then telling the authorities, and then you walk away with millions and fame.
I would choose the second option, millions of pounds.
Edit: slight typos for clarification
Outside of Britain, certainly! “My late great grandmother gave it to me!”
if anything Americans see about European prisons is true, I would probably stab a guy but for extradition laws, 20 million in gold or just a bum, sorry bum guy
Also, one thing that should be emphasised is that the vast majority of metal detectorists don't do it to get rich (which is just as well, given the odds of finding anything of value are very slim), they do it because they like history and finding tangible pieces of it is very rewarding. People interested in history are even more likely to find the idea of that history never being told tragic. I'm not saying some don't get greedy, but it's not something that metal detectorists generally approve of.
At a Canadian battlefield from the War of 1812, it is illegal to dig in the park, but not in the woods behind the park. The park is manicured and sodded with dirt brought in from who-knows-where, so it contains absolutely no artifacts from the war. I used to "treasure hunt" in the woods, and the person I was with found two musketballs. He never reported them. He has since passed away, but I know that his family still has them.
Allegedly
Would those really be of any historical value? There must’ve been thousands of them from any given battlefield
@@user-ov6jg4ug9d what are you a lawyer
@@flyhard3388 Allegedly.
If you find gold, oil, diamonds etc. On your property and the government finds out its the governments. If you find drugs or anything else illegal its yours.
Well put my friend. Thanks Uncle Sam
It depends....make sure when you acquire the property that mineral rights are included.
@@lookingbehind6335 good point man
Bro if I find a fucking diamond or gold I ain’t telling anyone shit
@@lookingbehind6335 the fact that “mineral rights” is a thing, is just sad! It also makes no sense! Because what’s the point of buying a plot of land if your not actually getting the plot of land. “Minerals” are part of the “land”. I’m surprised getting insurance for walking on the sidewalk isn’t a thing yet....
When I was working as a rural fencer, I asked my boss what we do if we bring up gem stones with the auger.
He said "we push them back down the hole, and I'll buy the property and pay you to help me dig it up instead of paying you to fence"
Ha! Smart boss.
Arthur C Clarke's diving partner discovered a sunken ship with a cargo of silver coins off the coast of Sri Lanka. He wrote a couple of books about it, and a couple of decades later he wrote a retrospective essay on the experience, in which he concluded that finding a sunken treasure was an experience he wouldn't wish on his worst enemy.
That lump of silver ended up on Pawn Stars I think lol
@@philastley8040 Part of it did. If I recall correctly, the lump came up in three parts, with the Pawn Stars one being the smallest. And Pawn Stars was not willing to touch the thing anywhere near the amount the guy wanted for it, which made some wonder if that was the point. Getting your artifact on national television is great advertising...
Carl Fischer finding that Spanish galleon off of the Florida Keys said the same thing. His life moved into a courtroom, until death found him.
@@Shachza Selling to a pawn shop is a terrible way to make money. They're a store for profit. They're not going to pay you the full value, in fact they're probably going to pay you less than half of what it's worth because they're going to resell it. People don't seem to understand that.
@@Malhaloc Pawn shops are good for if you need something moved fast and relatively hassle free
Many who found treasure melted them down for the gold, destroying the historical value. Governments shouldn't be so stingy when people find treasure.
treasure hunter finds 100 gold debloons. reports to government that he found 50 gold debloons. newspaper reports: treasure hunter finds a gold debloon.
If you're going to report anything at all, say you found two, offer one to government for museum, proceed to sell the other 98 one at a time.
Doubloon
@@marcpeterson5115 thanks. knew it was wrong (medical issues have caused spelling/neuro issues) and i was too lazy to look it up.
@@Midlife_Manical_Mayhem Sorry for your troubles. I thought it was "dubloons", I had to look it up.
@@marcpeterson5115 thanks
I practice the "finders keepers, losers weepers" law when it comes to found treasure.
You can keep anything you find if you're cool about it.
Exactly, I ain’t tellin anyone shiet about what I find, from information to buried treasures or money that falls off a brinks armored truck.
Hey lizard... Where you live bud?
Just shut up and keep quiet
And don't go blabbing all over
Loose lips sink ships bud
Any "research" value that could possibly be extracted from a horde of gold coins can just as easily be extracted from a single one of those coins, or even a handful.
If you find burried treasure, don't tell anyone. Sell each piece separately as parts of a collection that you've "acquired over the years".
Or just say a late family member gave them to you before they died. Then nobody can check their will and you aquired it “legitimately”!
@@lorenzo_br5803 bingo! This guy gets it.
@@s.armitage3963 Unless you are in the UK, then you may be guaranteed a winning lottery ticket....since our laws are quite progressive on that point, being that the finds monetary value is split between the finder and the landowner
Youll probably be suspected for tax fraud
Or evasion
Don't tell anyone if you FIND treasure...
Sell bits of it slowly in many locations.
You just don't want to deal with the government taking it.
"all kinds of artifacts can be deemed treasures in Scottish law". So if you find an unopened bottle of, say, 20 year old Lagavulin that was accidentally left behind at a campsite by tourists, you should deliver it to the local cop shop. The forensics guys will then thoroughly test it - several times - before asking the local chief of police for his opinion. He may have to also take several samples to confirm forensic's findings, or possibly a large sample over ice. Once all testing has been concluded, the now empty bottle will be filed under "unsolved mysteries" in the back room. The finder will be awarded with a miniature bottle of some generic blended store brand whiskey as a "thank you".
If you find it, but you don’t tell anyone about it, it’s yours.
If you find it, and tell everyone, it should go into a museum (depending on what it is) and the finder should be rewarded.
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If I found treasure, I would do like an sensible person. Keep my yap shut.
"Family heirloom"
Agreed, the government doesn't need to know your business and either does anyone else.
“ In the US legal system nothing is ever easy “
It is my understanding no truer words have ever been spoken on TH-cam lmfaooo !!!
@Fisher Man will I for one will ! ;) ;) ;)
@Fisher Man how many people like taxes...
If we can't have it then we should bury it back though much much deeper than before going by the tools and tech we have now.
Someone: found a buried treasure
Government: thank you for the free labor ;)
My great grandfather found buried coins that surfaced when his town was flooded. This was maybe in the 60s-70s. He dreamed of the location for days before he went and dug it up. It was a box of old Spanish coins and gold. I don’t know how much was in it but apparently it was enough for him to purchase lands and when my great grandmother died almost 8 years ago, there was half a million that remained from that original treasure. It was found on his land, so he kept it.
If I ever stumbled across the buried kruger rands I would keep my gob shut, I'd melt them all down and sell the gold at 80% of the buying price just to shift it quickly...
Naw....melt it down then slowly let it drip into a wooden bucket filled with olive oil with crushed up quartz in the bottom. The gold droplets will look indistinguishable from small “picker” nuggets if you do it properly, then buy a few bags of paydirt off amazon to cover your @$$ and pay a goldsmith to have it professionally made into ingots with a paper trail. Keep all your receipts and pay any applicable Taxes on the sale of the gold. If your smart about it, it’ll appear that you got extremely lucky on the paydirt. (Plus the paydirt will have gold in it as well)
You are killing the value of what it actually was. Why do people like you always have to ruin everything. Why not just say you found one at a time instead of destroying everything?
@@Jukinj94 They would be worth more to me smelted down and untraceable, in their original state under the national heritage act & whatever other laws the state will lay claim to them and I'll be far worse off than smelting them. Once the state has them they will probably be looted like they do with everything else here in south africa.
@@rztrzt that is reasonable. Just get all your shots those mosquitos are crazy.
@@Jukinj94 It's unfortunate but governments will try to stiff you on your find so people resort to that.
Not complicated to me, finder's keepers. If it's gold coins or rings simply melt them into 1/2- or 1-oz ingots and sell them on eBay at 5% under market value (better deal than a pawn shop). Same for gems, except they don't need melting. No trace= no foul, and even if it's more valuable whole than as raw materials try fencing a single million-dollar item without getting caught or killed or some gov't stealing it, good luck with that.
This is how you destroy the historic value completely, leaving yourself with less money than if you declared the thing, and had buyers (be it a museum or otherwise) bid on them as coins. After all a gold coin with $500 of gold thats 400 years old is likely worth many thousands as a coin, your going to put a load of work in to get somewhere in the $400 range.... while even if the finders fee was only a quarter, you'd likely be better off by being honest (and again, in the UK it'd be full market rate you get). Also selling gold on ebay? Probably not the most subtle way to avoid the tax department their lad.
@@SheepInACart Eh every one of my eBay ID's/Paypals is connected to a different real life ID/physical address = so much for the taxes, particularly If I keep sales under $10k each a year. Also I'm in the US, where people screw themselves if they declare it. If I was in Eastern Europe it would be even worse, I wouldn't get shit. As far as historic value as I mentioned before try fencing items worth 10x their weight in gold, not easy, and certainly more risk since it can then be traced. Thankfully I'm not a history buff or that sentimental.
'We need it for scientific research'
Like - How many Ferrari's can i buy in a year?
I'm a scientist, and it doesn't take much research to tell my wallet has been excavated!
Ah yes if I had a paper that says I'm an archeologist then my work is no longer "looting" but "research"
Unless you are lucky enough to be in England, and then you are due a windfall
According to the advertisements I am watching something way above my station.
xd but you’ll get buried treasure
They assume some people found some treasure. The YT algorithm that is.
Kingpin browser and Adblock = what are advertisements?
@@fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718 I was referring to the watch advertised by Simon.
@@lottavernix eh fast forward button still works ok enough until an AI adblockers are mainstream (auto-skip based on keywords mentioned and object recognition in the video itself).
"or, you know, death by Viking or the sorts."
😂😂😂
I’d like that as an aside in my obituary.
"you keep what you kill." - from Riddick 😊
i thought that was a cool movie
If you find something never tell the government.
More scientists need to pay up if they don't want people taking their finds. finders keepers 🤷🏻♂️
In Ireland when the Derrynaflan Hoard was found, there was years of litigation between finders and the government to settle who had legal ownership.
( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrynaflan_Chalice)
When I used to live on our family farm I would walk the plowed rows and would fine many arrowheads and a few native American tools like a mortar and pestle as well as several axe heads.
I was coming here to say this. Now, 60 years later, I have no idea where any of those "treasures" are.
There's just one thing I need to know. Did the Goonies get to keep their found treasure?
each child were given 100 dollars and gift card to wallmart
Unfortunately not. All they got away was was a bag of jewels, which they used to pay off the town, so that the town couldn't be developed. All the treasure float away with sloth. The crooks were too stupid to check a bag thinking it only contained marbles, not jewels.
It's fiction, so if you wanted them to keep it, they kept it.
Finders keepers. I definitely wouldn’t go on tv bragging you already know the government gonna take that shit
First thing you do is don’t tell anybody
Pretty sure you get to keep it if you dont tell everyone you found it. Especially if its precious metals. Just 'randomly' take up an interest in smelting and it's all kosher.
11:05 Archeology was not always like this. Back in the 19th and early 20th century, many archeologists favorite excavation tool was dynamite. In 1873, a man named Heinrich Schliemann excavated what was thought to be the legendary city of Troy. He blew most of it up trying to get to the "original" city, blasting through to far, past the Bronze age layer to something much earlier than when the Trojan war could possibly take place.
There's a recent real world case study that would have been interesting. Writer Forrest fenn hid a treasure in the rocky mountains (with items worth around 2 million dollars i believe) and published a poem and very vague map so people could go find it. It was recently found and it was in the news but it would have been interesting to know the process the person went through to keep it
I believe he had an extensive contract written up when he decided to do it, which the finder signed before any details were released. That's a wild guess, but someone with that kind of money to give away for fun would be aware of the legalities behind it.
@@wendychavez5348 yeah that could definitely be the case, he obviously wanted the treasure to be found and already stated that it would belong to the person who found it, I just wonder how that works in the legal world? Do they just find it and that's it? Did they have to go through some legal process? Don't know, but would love to hear more details since this is such a recent story!
@@Horse-and-Butterfly The person who finds it will probably get arrested for some made up reason.
@@prime_optimus Yep they will setup a bogus search and seizure if they get wind of it before hand and they will make it hell to get it back through the court system. After i think 6 months that money goes directly to the department that stopped you. legalized highway robbery
Nice! I have never watched a Today I Found Out Video this new. I always seem to be watching videos from years ago not 5 minutes ago.
Welcome to the TIFO community :)
I don’t think this is new. It looks like reupload of a video he made a few years ago.
@@chandl34 Possibly but I had never watched it before, but I have seen a video about coca cola bottled water in the UK so maybe you are right :)
Pawn Shop Owner: It's as if every gold doubloon in the city is someone's family heirloom.
There was a big controversy between Ann Hodges, the woman who was hit by a meteorite in 1954, and the owner of the house she lived in. The house owner insisted the meteorite was his because he owned the land where the meteorite landed, whereas Ann Hodges was actually hit by the meteorite. She eventually paid the house owner $500 for the meteorite, and tried to sell it but couldn't so she donated it to a museum. I've always said that was the way I wanted to go - to walk outside and get clonked by a meteorite. While a meteorite isn't exactly a treasure in the gold coin sense, they're very valuable for science research.
Currently in the US if you find treasure say a Spanish galleon with gold. Spain gets a share. The US gets a share and the state you found it in also gets a share. You likely will get no share and if you do it will be a tiny percentage of which you’ll have to pay taxes on. A guy in Florida found Spanish treasure and after being caught up in the exact situation he brought it back out to sea and threw it overboard denying anyone a share
Over 4 minutes of ads and less than 10 minutes of actual video. That is more than USA network TV.
i didn't get any ads other than the one that was part of the video. youtube forces ads whether a creator puts them or not now. even on completely demonetized channels i still occasionally get ads on them. youtube is garbage.
In Ireland it's completely illegal to use metal detectors to search for treasure without dispensation from the minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.
So not only would whatever you find likely be confiscated, you could also get massively fined in the process 😂
I know that when a lot of the original property in the states was drawn up and resold there ended up being different "rights" that come with the property, water rights being common. I imagine that this is what makes it complicated in the states. Does your property deed have the correct wording to give you ownership for what is below the ground. A mining company may have the rights to the minerals they are mining but not the rights to the trees on the surface. SO it is completely possible to not have any clam to buried treasure. The issue is really that the ones making the decision have a conflict of interest precluding them from making an actually fair decision. See a museum can make an insane amount of money from getting treasure cheap. They can actually sell off items, the can get grants and subsides based off of items, and in cases where the museum charges admission they can make money off of items that they have on display.
you should do a part 2 to this dealing with shipwreck/ocean found treasures
Depends on how quietly you can pawn it all off. Lol
Silence is golden. Duct tape is silver. Two can keep a secret when one of them is...eternally...motivated to remain quiet.
There's a reason why dead men don't tell Tales. If snitches get stitches, a blabbermouth gets a bullet to the back of the head or a knife to the back.
"I've got to boogie Woogie like a knife in the back".
""Rejection of the rules that reward finders at the expense of landowners also strengthens anti-looting provisions"..
Translation: You found treasure on your property, your property is on US soil therefor it's our property. Thank you for digging up our treasure on our property.
That sounds an awfull lot like communism..
*sees a few old coins on the ground. *Trades them for coins of a different currency. Failed to tell the queen. *Goes to prison for 10 years.
The problem with buried treasure is you have to find someone willing to buy it at a good price. I'd rather hit the jackpot at the lottery.
As long as you don't tell anyone about it of course you get to keep it
Museum: Tell us where you found this artifact!
Me: No
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They are shit tho
Need to know the time = look at my phone or PC. I can't believe watches are still even made in 2020 along with mp3 players. Other than for the plebes that don't own either of those (but then why would knowing the time matter?).
@@fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718 It's jewelry, and I don't mean that dismissively. It signifies to others that you're a person that is timely, and if you're into automatic/manual watches, it's a conversation piece and a signifier that you're into the engineering and mechanics of a mechanical watch and how it can meld seamlessly with aesthetic design. It's also a bit less disrespectful to glance at your watch than to whip out your phone in many social situations.
@@deanc91 didn't know social situations happened anymore with plague going around.
Question: Do you get to keep buried treasure if you find it?
Answer: You do if you keep your damn mouth shut.
Very interesting. You should do a companion piece on sunken treasure and salvage rights.
Newspaper: " Local man finds trove of gold coins."
Me: Shows bag of candy foil wrapped gold coins "What gold coins?."
Wow, that ad segue, slick!
1:45 of ad space at the beggining? WOW!
Basically what you do when you find a treasure trove is you shut up, tell no one about it, and pocket it for yourself especially if you find a literal fossil that has some quarts crystals forming in it.
If you find treasure, KEEP IT AND DON"T TELL ANYONE! Then patiently grade each piece and sell it. The profit will be staggering.
The rights for buried treasure around my area depends on who owns the land. For anything that would be significant, ownership will usually go: private land owner > city > county > state > federal. Most State and all Federal land is illegal to dig on. Those rights typically go to the local universities.
Seems like all your videos are all the random questions I ask myself at 4am when I can’t sleep and I’m completely okay with that
If its gold, just melt it at home.
Exactlyyy
Because of the confiscatory tax rate and so on, I would just sell off the pieces one at a time and say they were just items that had been passed down through the family from time immemorial.
I clicked the thumb expecting to hear 'Hello Vsauce, Michael here'
Very interesting content, and genuinely enjoyed it regardless :')
Never tell anyone when you find treasure... Always find the most silent way to trade in for what it’s worth and get it off your hands... Rinse and repeat...
Of course Simon had a video answering this random question I just thought up. All the Whistler channels are just too excellent. 👌
At least two of my mom's siblings were avidly hunting for Forest Fenn's treasure that was recently found (was it a year ago already?), and I believe her youngest brother was very close when it was actually found. I don't know what the details are, but it's pretty exciting.
What gets me the most though is, you could be walking down the high street, and within a few feet or inches below your feet, a hoard of lost golden artifacts and so on. P.S. I do NOT recommend anyone just goes around digging up your local high street. Local authorities will get very annoyed...or contract you to do repairs if they think they can hire you for nothing..lol
It belongs in a museum!
I wonder if he memorizes the script or if he’s reading it while filming
He is reading it.
Watch a Business Blaze then you'll know. 😆
Teleprompter
He’s damn good at acting like he’s not reading it. I thought he would memorize a paragraph section, you’ll notice after a long paragraph it will cut to a picture or have a blip like a new shot started, and just memorize a paragraph at a time
@@travismullins8230 he reads from a script like in Business Blaze which is part of the fun or uses a teleprompter in front of the camera.
God I hope the answer is gonna be I get to keep it 🤞
Sure you can, just don't tell him when you when you found it. Put it in a trunk in the attic, and claimed as a family heirloom. Who's going to question that?
The feds not that they are pushing the inheritance tax bs. They seriously want a complete history of the items and to charge you so much in taxes that you will have to sell everything just to pay off the taxes
Coming back to this channel after watching Simon acting feral on Business Blaze feels like I'm watching a completely different lol
@Simon, what music is playing in the background? :)
You never tell anyone, lmao
I'd melt the metal down and sell it for it's price as scrap.
Try and figure out how old that lump of gold is now lol
Interesting enough. Perhaps a segment on the gold rush in america and it's treasure finds.
"treasure Hunter" is a freely registerable business in austria. If i have the spare change I'll open up a treasure hunting business jsut for the business card
Depends on what it is and where you bought it. Do your research and wait out the statute of limitations if it's extremely valuable. If only mildly valuable pawn it off after a year.
My dad once found a roman gold ring when metal detecting, didn't get a penny for it, but it is in a museum now, sometimes the pride of having discovered historical objects is worth more personally as a reward than the money is...
Where you from. Country?
No i would rather money as a reward as you can't feed your family on pride. And i refuse to think that someone would seriously pass up a reward of monetary value for something that is gold unless they were threatened with jail time if they did not give it up
No offence to your dad but he should have melted it down and sold it as a family heirloom 🥴.but I guess you can look at the expensive ring in the museum and appreciate it ....
Uncle has found similar, just sold it privately, not worth letting the government steal from you
Today on Time Team... needs more Phil Aaaarding though ;) lol!
Stone of crows.
There's a fan page for Time Team on Facebook
lol I am Phil, but I do not know who this Aaaarding guy is :p
@@philastley8040 You don'T know Phil Harding? He's only the coolest archaeologist on the planet!
Good video 👍
The good thing about this is that you can fast forward to the video rather than watch the ads
Absolutely. My uncle dud found a 9 foot skeleton, was taken from the family back in the 1950’s taken to somewhere in New York State, they told my family they would likely get it back after research purposes, that was like 70 years ago
Its probably in a museum.
@@prime_optimus Its probably siting in a box in some warehouse.
I dug up a treasure chest full of Vincero watches.
I then dug a hole 10 times deeper and reburied the lot of them.
If there is no reward for finding treasure or the reward isn't worth the effort, historic finds can pretty much disappear after being discovered.
"Death by Viking" love it
Silence is golden... just like treasure 😉
Thank you
I like this Brit, He works hard as hell. He must be a TH-cam millionaire.