The UK can be said to be a paradise for treasure hunters and gold diggers. The UK has the least regulated use of metal detectors for treasure hunting of any Western European country. In most cases, you can probe 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, the use of metal detectors for treasure hunts is often seen as a socially harmless leisure pursuit, a personal hobby. Judging from the reports of the mainstream media, treasure hunting and gold mining 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 get involved.

The Treasure Act 1996 stipulates that treasure hunters must first obtain the consent of the landlord before they can go down to the land to explore treasure. Any valuable or meaningful findings must be reported within 14 days.

If it is confirmed to be a treasure, it belongs to the state. It was acquired by the state at a price and exhibited in the museum's collection.

Any proceeds shall be divided equally between the discoverer and the landlord of the place where it was found. Anyone who conceals or fails to report it can be punished by three months' imprisonment or a fine.

In Britain, there were about 30,000 treasure hunters like Arthur. Some of them belong to a club interest group, and many more are free self-employed like Arthur.

Over the past 20 years, British treasure hunters have unearthed more than 14,000 treasures, 40 percent of which have been sold to British museums. In addition, there are 100,000 relatively small archaeological artifacts found, such as a 17th-century dog collar...

Tens of thousands of treasure hunters like Arthur, armed with metal detectors, swept around the fields from early morning to dusk.

Many of them will 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 Britons carry metal detectors to search for treasure all over the UK, and the media often reports on glorious deeds such as treasure hunts and fortune-changing, and the treasure hunt team is getting bigger and bigger, and many people even start studying it from a young age. In the past two years, many people have really relied on it to find treasures!

For example, in 07, there was a buddy named Derek who had the luckiest man, and he used a metal detector in a small town in Scotland to obtain a large number of Viking treasures. He handed over the 100 or so objects he found to the National Museum of Scotland for display in the museum.

For his contribution to the study of history, the National Museum of Scotland paid him a prize of nearly £2 million.

Another treasure hunter, Pete, found more valuable treasures in Suffolk, including fifteen thousand gold and silver coins, two hundred pieces of jewellery and ornaments, and tableware.

The discovery of these artifacts resulted in a reward of more than £1.7 million for the diggers, and the artifacts are now on display in the British Museum.

In addition to these professional treasure hunts, there are also people who use metal detectors to dig up treasures in the fields, such as this year, a father and son hunted for treasures from the Viking period, including 600 coins.

In addition, the father and son later discovered precious golden wine cups, as well as chalices, silver tableware, seals, etc., 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...

The news of the successive treasure diggings made the British people unable to sit still, and everyone picked up their metal detectors and began to hunt for treasures, and treasure hunters followed one after another, and more treasures were discovered.

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

The only way to solve worries is to get rich. The only way to get rich is to hunt for treasure.

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

If this is really a treasure that was put in by the first Earl of Boleyn, once it is dug up, it will really cause a sensation in England, and the value of historical research will be very amazing.

Therefore, Arthur did not want to wait for a minute, he wanted to immediately solve this secret that may have been buried for 800 years.

"Boom, boom—"

An hour later, a small excavator pulled off the flatbed body of a trailer, its tracks crushing the lawn all the way, leaving two clear indentations.

Arthur stood on the slope, stretched out his hand, the small excavator stopped, the driver jumped down from the car, and after greeting Arthur, Arthur took the driver to the area where a small red flag was planted, pointed and said: "This is the area, dig four meters first." ”

The driver looked at it, nodded and said, "No problem." ”

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

"Boom, boom—"

"Wang-"

The little excavator slowly went downhill, and the four Labradors who followed Arthur barked at the 'monster' like the excavator.

“stop!”

After digging for more than ten minutes, a small mound of dirt had been piled up on the edge of the pit, Arthur suddenly reached out and made a stop movement, and shouted at the excavator: "Stop first, I'll see!"

“lord——”

Just then, a pickup truck stopped on the hillside, and Paul, the butler, jumped out of the car with three male waiters, took a ladder from the body, and walked briskly.

"It's just in time, put the ladder up, I'll go down and have a look. Arthur took the sapper shovel and said to Paul, the steward.

"Okay. ”

Paul instructed the attendants to lower the ladder, and Arthur stepped on the ladder to the bottom of the pit, and after stepping on it with his foot, Arthur unfolded the sapper shovel and thrust it downward.

"Boom-"

A third of the way into the dirt, the sapper shovel collided with something buried in the dirt, making a dull sound. Arthur's eyes lit up suddenly, the corners of his mouth turned up, and his face was full of joy.

"You guys come down with tools and help me clean up, Paul, and tell the driver to wait a little bit, maybe he'll need his excavator to lift things up there. ”

Arthur raised his head and instructed the crowd gathered around the pit, and then he bowed his head very hard and began to clear the dirt with a sapper shovel.

At this time, three attendants with shovels also stepped on the ladder to the bottom of the pit, and began to clear the dirt under Arthur's command, Arthur looked at the rusty metal that had been exposed, and the half-curved wooden roof.

"Click-"

"Lord, it seems to be a chest, but the wood is rotten, and there's something in it... ”

One of the attendants stopped digging, a look of astonishment in his eyes, and thought Arthur reported.

"I see, all right, everyone stop, you all go up. Arthur directly stopped the others from continuing to dig and told them to leave the bottom of the pit, although the three waiters were very curious about what the box contained and guessed that they might have dug up the treasure, but under the orders of Arthur's master, they could only leave.

"Paul, let the excavator driver leave, there is no need for him and his machine here, thank him for his help, let them go back too, you throw me a travel bag, a mask and gloves. Arthur stood at the bottom of the pit and commanded Paul, who was standing at the edge of the pit.

He knew that after hundreds of years of erosion, this treasure chest was probably already decaying, and it was impossible to get it on it as a whole, so he could only clean it up slowly.

And it is really a box of gold, silver and jewelry, under the miscellaneous hands of many people, it is inevitable that someone will have crooked thoughts, he naturally will not fake the hands of others, even if he is tired and dirty, this cleaning work can only come by himself.

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

Arthur, who had already cleared out a completed half-arc iron hoop wooden box at the bottom of the pit, looked at the treasure box that was about one meter five long and nearly seventy or eighty centimeters wide, his face was excited, and his hands trembled slightly unconsciously.

"Lord, equip you-"

"Bang!"

At this moment, Paul, the butler at the edge of the pit, threw down a black travel bag, and Arthur said to Paul with a face full of ecstasy: "It's really a treasure, I saw the gold piled up inside!"

"Congratulations, Lord!"

"Haha... Arthur smiled happily, took a gas mask and a pair of rubber gloves from his travel bag, strapped him, broke the sapper shovel a few times, turned it into a draft, wheeled it up, smashed it into the top wood of the chest, and then pulled it.

With a bang, the wood was pulled open like a piece of paper, revealing a full load of gold ornaments pushed inside.

"Whew-whew-"

Arthur, wearing a gas mask, picked up a large gold cross inlaid with red garnet in his right hand with rubber gloves, raised his head, and showed Paul, the butler who was squatting on the edge of the pit watching him, "I can be sure that I have really found a huge treasure!"

I was a nobleman in England

I was a nobleman in England