Unemployed man Discovers HUGE Treasure!

LONDON An amateur treasure hunter prowling English farmland with a metal detector stumbled upon the largest Anglo-Saxon treasure ever found, a massive seventh-century hoard of gold and silver sworddecorations, crosses and other items, British archaeologists said Thursday.
One expert said the treasure found by 55-year-old Terry Herbert would revolutionize understanding of the Anglo-Saxons, a Germanic peoplewho ruled England from the fifth century until the Norman conquest in 1066. Another said the find would rank among Britain's best-known historic treasures.
The hoard consists of at least 650 items of gold and 530 silver objects weighing more than 2.2 pounds (1 kilo), along with some copper alloy, garnets and glass.
A total of 1,345 items have been examined by experts and 56 lumps of earth were found to contain metal artifacts detected by an X-ray machine, meaning the total will likely rise to about 1,500.
Most of the objects are ornaments for weapons and other military artifacts, some inlaid with precious stones.
"I think wealth of this kind must have belonged to a king but we cannot say that for absolute certain," Bland said.

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[LyleVertigo]

Too bad treasure hunting isn't the same in the States.

You'll most likely uncover remains of dead hookers or children, some used batteries, diapers, caches of confederate bills or pieces of UFOs.

[godkingRoss]

In my ideal world, I'd keep all the treasure, adorn myself with it, grow my hair & plat my beard then crown myself king. Then I'd lead an army to overthrow the false monarchy and usurpers we have today.

England and it's territory is returned to the Anglo-Saxons and we all live happily ever after.

THE END

[Hanksand]

they didnt find any fiat currency?

[bulliondotcomdotcom]

0:28 Anglo Saxon Trevor has finally been found!

1/3 of the screen is taken up by a banner telling me what I am already watching.

[MrKylecorreia]

nothing good like this happens to me im lucky to find a penny on the sidewalk

[micmoable]

great find---wow!

[marcusdelcactus]

@Mattlarrivee no they didn't tax it. they ended up splitting the money (about 1 million) with the land owner tax free

[Aeriphful]

'And then he was sued for his gold for stealing lost treasure.' <-- I could see it happen.

[Mattlarrivee]

I bet the government taxed it.

[animeshadowninja]

@BigUpToNJ thats my name :D

[whatdupdoh]

That bridge at 2:05 is awesome.

[Budsmokerhaha]

thats whats up