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Who are the members of the Treasure Valuation Committee?
Professor Norman Palmer CBE (Chair)
Professor Palmer has been Chairman of the Treasure Valuation Committee since 2001. He is a barrister, a Visiting Professor of Law at King's College London and Professor Emeritus of the Law of Art and Cultural Property at University College London, having formerly been the Professor of Commercial Law at UCL
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ANCIENT gold coins were among the finds uncovered by metal detecting enthusiasts who descended on the Englefield estate on Sunday (September 9).
Over 280 people armed with metal detectors arrived to sweep fields on the estate in the hope of finding rare historical treasures.
One top find was an Iron Age gold quarter stater, engraved with the image of a rearing horse. Dating from around 100 BC, it comes from the Atrebates tribe who spread across south east England from their Silchester capital.
Another find was a gold quarter noble dating from the reign of Edward III, the 14th century monarch who oversaw parliament’s evolution and turned England into a European military power.
The coin’s inscription, “EDWARD DEI GRA REX ANGL” translates as “Edward by the Grace of God King of England.”
A bronze statuette of Neptune was also dug up, but organisers are sceptical that it is genuinely Roman.
Wessex Metal Detecting Association chairman Jim Bradshaw said: “I’m not too happy with the provenance of the statue. To start with, it hasn’t been in the soil for long – it’s far too clean. Also, it has traces of paint, which would indicate that it’s a recent loss.”
Mick Turrell, whose Newbury firm Leisure Promotions sells metal detectors and arranges rallies, said metal detecting wasn’t just about striking gold.
“I started about 25 years ago and back then everybody thought they were going to get rich quick. Nowadays people do a lot more research than they use to, so we go out looking for interesting sites.”
“At Englefield we’re finding everything. We’ve had Bronze Age, we’ve had Iron Age, we’ve had Saxon. This has been an occupation site for the last 2000 years so it’s a really, really good site.”
The rally raised money for the Motor Neurone Disease Association, in memory of keen Newbury detector George Pearce who died from the disease in 2005.
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It happened to me... I dug up treasure worth £1million
On 29 September 2009, treasure hunter David Booth embarked on his first outing with a metal detector. Within minutes, he stumbled across 2,000-year-old gold jewellery worth an estimated £1 million.
David, 35, is the chief game warden at Blair Drummond Safari Park in Stirling, Scotland, where he lives with his partner, Carolyn Morrison, 28
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The Treasure valuation committee met in Dec to decide on a value for our 7 finds declared Treasure by the Essex coroner in Sept. Ten Brad has received an initial offer of £18,000 for his gold statue find but the other 6 guys have yet to get an offer. Both the landowner and finder can appeal the decision and present proof that the valuation should be higher or accept the offer and then receive a ch ...
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All finders of gold and silver objects, and groups of coins from the same finds, over 300 years old, have a legal obligation to report such items under the Treasure Act 1996. Now prehistoric base-metal assemblages found after 1st January 2003 also qualify as Treasure.
All finds made on these hunts stick strictly to these laws.
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