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Country Collections Book ♥ Collecting / Displaying Antiques and Treasures $9.99 |
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ANTIQUE LOOK, TREASURE BOX, COUNTRY APPLES THEME, AMERICAN THEME $8.00 |
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GOLD ANTIQUE STYLE PILLAR CANDLE WALL SCONCE OPULENT TREASURES – FRENCH COUNTRY $54.99 |
What are the laws on finding a buried treasure?Do you get to keep it?
If you were to find a treasure, like an ancient antique, in your country, do you get to keep it? I’m interested in UK laws.
In UK law there are two possibilities.
If the treasure was buried with “animus revocandi” – an intent to later recover it – then it defaults to the government if the owner cannot be found, under the law of “Treasure Trove”. If it was not, then it belongs to the finder, if he was legally in the place where he found it, or the landowner if the finder was trespassing, under the “law of finders”.
The most famous buried treasure of recent years was the Sutton Hoo trove. Since that was all buried as part of a ceremonial “ship burial” there was never an intent to recover it, and when found it belonged to the finders – an archaeological team from a university who were excavating the site with the owners consent. If it had been found by a trespasser then it would have belonged to the landowner.
Richard