Britain can be said to be a paradise for treasure seekers. Britain is the lightest country in Western Europe to regulate the use of metal detectors for treasure hunting. In most cases, as long as you get permission from the landowner, you can explore the excavation. Once the cultural relics are excavated, the ownership belongs to the individual.


    In the UK, the use of metal detectors to search for gold is often regarded as a kind of leisure pursuit that is harmless to the society and a kind of personal interest. According to the reports of mainstream media, the search for treasure and gold is often associated with key words such as folk science popularization, knowledge dissemination and cherishing historical heritage. The British treasure act also encourages people from all walks of life to participate in it.


    According to the treasure Act 1996, a treasure seeker must first obtain the consent of the landowner before he can go down to explore. Any valuable or meaningful findings must be reported within 14 days.


    If it is a treasure, it belongs to the state. It is purchased by the state at a fixed price and displayed by the museum.


    Any money received shall be divided equally between the discoverer and the landowner. Anyone who fails to report can be sentenced to three months'' imprisonment or a fine.


    In Britain, there are about 30000 treasure hunters like Arthur. Some of them are affiliated with a certain community interest group, and more are self-employed like Arthur.


    Over the past 20 years, more than 14000 pieces of treasure have been dug up by British gold miners, 40% of which have been sold to British Museums. In addition, there are 100000 smaller archaeological finds, such as a 17th century dog collar...


    Tens of thousands of treasure hunters like Arthur, with metal detectors, roam the fields from dawn to dusk.


    Many of them will say that this is just a kind of entertainment. They don''t expect to get rich, but how many people don''t dream of getting rich?


    Many British people carry metal detectors to search for treasures all over the UK. The media often report glorious deeds such as finding treasure and changing fate. Moreover, the number of treasure hunting teams is growing, and even many people have begun to study since childhood. In the past two years, many people have really found a baby by it!


    In 2007, for example, there was a lucky guy named Derek, who used metal detectors in a small town in Scotland to obtain a lot of Viking treasure. About 100 items he found were handed over to the National Museum of Scotland for display in the museum.


    For his great contribution to the study of history, the National Museum of Scotland finally paid him a prize of nearly 2 million pounds.


    Peter, another treasure hunter, found more valuable treasures in Suffolk County, including 15000 gold and silver coins, 200 pieces of jewelry and various decorations and tableware.


    The discovery of the artifacts, which earned the diggers more than 1.7 million pounds, are now on display in the British Museum.


    Compared with these professional treasure hunting, some people have dug up treasure in the farmland by using metal detectors. For example, this year, a father and son in the treasure hunt dug up a lot of Viking treasure, including 600 coins.


    In addition, the father and son later discovered precious gold wine cups, Holy Grails, silver tableware and seals from the 10th century to the 12th century A.D.


    it is no coincidence that two metal detector enthusiasts discovered about 50000 ancient silver coins in the farmland...


    The British people couldn''t sit still after the news of treasure digging. Everyone picked up their metal detectors and began to search for treasure. The treasure hunters came one after another and found more treasures.


    There are also many people who have searched for precious gold cultural relics, which are exquisite and unique in appearance, and many of them are of great value. This is also the main reason why Arthur was moved to buy equipment and join the treasure hunt.


    The only way to solve the problem is to become rich. The only way to get rich is to find treasure.


    Although Arthur is very rich now, no one thinks he has too much money, does he?


    If the treasure buried here is really the treasure put in by the first generation of Earl Boleyn, once dug out, it will really stir the whole UK, and the value of historical research will be very amazing.


    Arthur didn''t want to bury it for eight hundred years, so he didn''t want to wait for it to go down.


    "Boom and boom -"


    an hour later, a small excavator drove down from the flat body of a trailer, and the tracks rolled the lawn all the way, leaving two clear indentations.


    Arthur stood on the slope, stretched out his hand, and the small excavator stopped. The driver jumped out of the car and exchanged greetings with Arthur. After that, Arthur took the driver to the area with a circle of red flags. He pointed out and said, "this is the area. Dig four meters first."


    The driver looked at it, nodded and said, "no problem."


    For the job of digging a small hole for a thousand pounds, the driver is eager to take more orders.


    "Boom and boom -"


    "Wangwang --"


    the small excavator slowly went down the slope, while the four Labradors who followed Arthur looked at the "monster" and barked.


    "Stop!"


    after digging for more than ten minutes, a small mound of soil has been piled up near the pit. Arthur suddenly reaches out to stop and yells at the excavator: "stop for a moment, I''ll have a look!""Lord -"


    just then, a pickup truck was parked on the hillside. Paul, the housekeeper, jumped out of the car with three waiters, took a hanging ladder from the car body and walked quickly.


    "Just in time. Put the ladder on and I''ll go down and have a look." Arthur, with his shovel, said to Paul, the butler.


    "OK."


    Paul instructs the waiter to put down the ladder. Arthur steps on the ladder and comes to the bottom of the pit. After stepping on it with his foot, Arthur unfolds the shovel and plunges it down.


    "Dong --"


    when a third of the engineers'' shovels are submerged in the soil, they collide with the "things" buried in the soil and make a dull sound. Arthur''s eyes suddenly lit up, the corners of his mouth turned up, and his face was full of joy.


    "You come down with your tools and help me clean up, Paul. Let the driver wait a moment. Maybe he needs his excavator to lift things up."


    Arthur raised his head and told the crowd around the pit. Then he lowered his head very hard and began to clean up the soil with an engineer''s shovel.


    at that moment, three shovel attendants stepped down the ladder to the bottom of the pit. They began to clean up the soil under Arthur''s command. Arthur looked at the rusty metal that had been exposed and the half curved wooden box top.


    "Cacha -"


    "Lord, it''s like a box, but the wood is rotten and there''s something in it..."


    One of the waiters stopped digging with a startled look in his eyes and wanted to report to Arthur.


    "I see it. All right, stop. You all go up." Arthur directly stopped several people from digging and asked them to leave the bottom of the pit. Although the three waiters were very curious about what was in the box and guessed that the treasure might have been dug, they could only leave under the command of Arthur, the master.


    "Paul, let the excavator driver leave. He and his machine are not needed here. Thank him for his help. Let them go back. You can drop me a traveling bag, a mask and gloves." Arthur stood at the bottom of the pit and said to Paul standing at the edge of the pit.


    He knew that after hundreds of years of erosion, the treasure chest may have been rotten. It is impossible to get it on the whole, and it can only be cleaned up slowly.


    It''s really a box of gold and silver jewelry. It''s hard to avoid some people''s thinking. Naturally, he won''t fake others'' hands. Even if he is tired and dirty again, he can only do the cleaning work by himself.


    "OK, Lord, I see." The housekeeper Paul knew that it was digging something. He first let the three waiters who had returned to the ground leave, and then sent away the excavator driver.


    Arthur, who had already cleaned out a half arc wooden chest with iron hoops at the bottom of the pit, looked at the treasure chest which was about 1.5 meters long and nearly 78.0 centimeters wide. His face was excited and his hands trembled slightly unconsciously.


    "Lord, equip you with -"


    "bang!"


    At this time, Paul, the housekeeper beside the pit, threw down a black travelling bag. Arthur said to Paul with ecstasy: "it''s really a treasure. I saw the gold in it!"


    "Congratulations, Lord!"


    "Ha ha..." With a happy smile, Arthur took out a gas mask and a pair of rubber gloves from his travel bag, broke the shovel into a draft, rolled it, smashed it into the top wood of the treasure chest, and then pulled it.


    With a crash, the wood was pulled open like a piece of paper, revealing the gold ornaments pushed inside.


    "Hoo Hoo --"


    Arthur, wearing a gas mask, picked up a large gold cross inlaid with red garnet in his right hand with rubber gloves. He raised his head and showed Paul, who was squatting at the edge of the pit and watching him, "I''m sure I''ve found a huge treasure!"


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