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Farmer's son allowed to keep hoard of denarii
Kevin Elliot used milking buckets to collect 9310 Roman
denarii, Britain's biggest find of Roman silver denarii, which he found within
minutes of walking into a field with a metal detector for the first time.
An inquest has ruled that the hoard is treasure and belongs to
the finder. Their value will be decided by the Treasure Valuation Committee in
the coming weeks.
Kevin and his cousin Martin found the coins on a 400-acre farm
at Shapwick, near Glastonbury, Somerset in August 1999. Kevin said his cousin
Martin had to show him how to use the detector as they set off to search the
field. Within a few minutes of entering the field he found a coin and just 30
minutes later were finding that many coins that they had to use milking buckets
to carry them back to the farm. Archaeologists said that the hoard of coins had
been buried beneath the floor of a previously-unknown Roman villa.
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