I Am a Nobleman in England

Britain can be said to be a paradise for treasure hunters. The UK has the lightest regulation of treasure hunting with metal detectors of any Western European country. In most cases, you can detect excavations as long as you have permission from the landowner. And once the cultural relics and treasures are dug up, the ownership belongs to the individual.

In the UK, treasure hunting with metal detectors is often seen as a socially innocuous leisure pursuit, a personal interest. Judging from mainstream media reports, treasure hunting and panning for gold are often associated with keywords such as folk science popularization, knowledge dissemination, and cherishing historical heritage. The UK's "Treasures Act" also encourages people from all walks of life to participate.

The British "Treasure Act 1996" stipulates that treasure hunters must first obtain the consent of the landowner before they can go hunting for treasure. Any findings of value or significance must be reported within 14 days.

If it is confirmed that it is a treasure, it will belong to the state. It was purchased by the state and exhibited in the museum collection.

Any proceeds shall be divided equally between the discoverer and the landowner of the place where the discovery was made. Anyone who fails to report can be punished with three months' imprisonment or a fine.

In the UK, there are about 30,000 treasure hunters like Arthur. Some of them belonged to a community interest group, and most of them were freelancers like Arthur.

In the past 20 years, British treasure hunters have unearthed more than 14,000 treasures, 40% of which were sold to British museums. In addition, 100,000 smaller archaeological artifacts were found, such as a 17th-century dog ​​collar. . .

Tens of thousands of treasure hunters like Arthur, armed with metal detectors, sweep across the vast fields from dawn to dusk.

Many of them would say that this is just a pastime and they don't expect to get rich, but how many of them 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 treasure hunting and changing fate. Moreover, the treasure hunting team is getting bigger and bigger, and many people even start to study since childhood. In the past two years, many people have found treasures by relying on it!

For example, in 2007, there was a buddy named Derek who was the luckiest. He used a metal detector to obtain a large number of treasures from the Viking period in a small town in Scotland. He handed over the 100 or so found items to the National Museum of Scotland for display in the museum.

Because of his great contribution to historical research, the National Museum of Scotland finally paid him a reward of nearly 2 million pounds.

Another treasure hunter, Peter, found more valuable treasures in Suffolk, including 15,000 gold and silver coins, 200 pieces of jewelry, various decorations, and tableware.

The discovery of these cultural relics has won treasure diggers more than 1.7 million pounds in rewards, and these cultural relics are currently displayed in the British Museum.

Compared with these professional treasure hunts, some people used metal detectors to dig out treasures in the farmland. For example, this year, a father and son of treasure hunters dug up a large number of treasures from the Viking period in the farmland, including 600 coins.

In addition, the father and son later discovered precious golden wine glasses, as well as holy grails, silver tableware, and seals from the 10th to the 12th centuries AD.

Coincidentally, not long ago, two metal detector enthusiasts found about 50,000 ancient silver coins in the farmland. . .

Successive treasure digging news made the British people unable to sit still. Everyone picked up their metal detectors and started treasure hunting. The treasure hunters came one after another, and more treasures were discovered.

Many people have also searched for precious gold cultural relics, with exquisite and unique appearance, and many cultural relics are of great value. This is also the main reason why Arthur was tempted to buy equipment and join the treasure hunt.

The only way to relieve worries is to get rich quickly. How to get rich, only treasure hunting.

Although Arthur is already rich now, no one thinks he has a lot of money, right?

If the treasure buried here is really the first Earl Boleyn, once it is dug out, it will really cause a sensation in the whole of England, and the value of historical research will be very amazing.

Therefore, Arthur didn't want to wait for a minute, he wanted to immediately unravel this secret that might have been buried for eight hundred years.

"Boom boom boom—"

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

Arthur stood on the slope, stretched out his hand to signal, the small excavator stopped, the driver jumped out of the car, and after greeting Arthur, Arthur led the driver to the area with a circle of small red flags, pointing Said: "This is the area, first dig four meters."

After looking at it, the driver nodded and said, "No problem."

For the job of digging a small pit for 1,000 pounds, the driver is eager to take more orders.

"Boom boom boom—"

"Wow woof woof—"

The small excavator was slowly going downhill, while the four Labradors following Arthur watched the excavator as a 'monster' barking endlessly.

"stop!"

After digging for more than ten minutes, a small mound of soil had already been piled up beside the pit. Arthur suddenly reached out and made a stop motion, and shouted at the excavator: "Stop first, let me see!"

"lord—"

At this moment, a pickup truck was parked on the hillside. Paul, the housekeeper, jumped out of the car with three male attendants, took a hanging ladder from the car bed, and walked over quickly.

"It's just in time, put the ladder up, and I'll go down and have a look." Arthur said to the housekeeper Paul with his engineering shovel in hand.

"OK."

Paul directed the waiter to put down the ladder. Arthur stepped on the ladder and came to the bottom of the pit. After stepping on it with his feet, Arthur unfolded the engineering shovel and plunged down hard.

"Boom—"

When the engineer's shovel was a third of the way into the soil, it collided with the 'thing' buried in the soil and made a dull sound. Arthur's eyes lit up suddenly, the corners of his mouth turned up, and his face was full of joy.

"Come down with your tools and help me clean it up, Paul, and tell the driver to wait a while, maybe he needs his excavator to lift things up later."

Arthur raised his head and gave instructions to the crowd around the pit, then he lowered his head very hard and began to clean up the soil with an engineering shovel.

At this time, the three waiters with shovels also stepped on the ladder to the bottom of the pit, and began to clean up the soil under Arthur's command. Arthur looked at the exposed rusty metal and the semi-curved wooden box top .

"Crack——"

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

A waiter stopped digging, his eyes flickered with astonishment, and wanted to report to Arthur.

"I saw it, okay, everyone stop, you all go up." Arthur directly stopped several people from digging and let them leave the bottom of the pit. Although the three waiters were very curious about what was in the box, they also guessed that it might be The treasure was dug, but under the order of Arthur, the master, they had no choice but to leave.

"Paul, let the excavator driver leave, he and his machine are not needed here, thank him for his help, let them go back too, you throw me a travel bag, mask and gloves." Arthur stood The bottom of the pit gave instructions to Paul who was standing by the pit.

He knew that after hundreds of years of erosion, this treasure chest might have been rotten, and it was impossible to get it up as a whole, so he had to clean it up slowly.

But it's really a box of gold, silver and jewels. With many people and mixed hands, it is inevitable that someone will be distracted. Naturally, he will not pretend to be in the hands of others. No matter how tired or dirty, the cleaning work can only be done by himself. .

"Okay, Lord, I see." The butler Paul knew that he had dug something, so he tacitly let the three waiters who had returned to the ground leave first, and then sent the excavator driver away.

And Arthur, who has already cleared out a half-arc wooden box top with iron hoops at the bottom of the pit, looked at the treasure chest with a length of about 1.5 meters and a width of nearly 70 to 80 centimeters. trembling.

"Lord, equip you—"

"boom!"

At this moment, Paul, the housekeeper by the pit, threw down a black travel bag. Arthur said to Paul with ecstasy, "It's really a treasure. I saw the gold piled inside!"

"Congratulations, Lord!"

"Haha..." Arthur smiled happily, took out a gas mask and a pair of rubber gloves from the travel bag, put them on, broke off the sapper shovel a few times, turned it into a manuscript, turned it into a wheel, and smashed it into the treasure chest the top of the wood and then a pull.

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

"Hoo-hoo--"

Arthur, wearing a gas mask, picked up a large, crushed and deformed gold cross inlaid with red garnets with his right hand wearing a rubber glove, raised his head, and showed it to Paul, the housekeeper who was squatting on the edge of the pit and watching him. : "I can be sure, I really found a huge treasure!"

I am a nobleman in England

I am a nobleman in England