3rd December 2009, 02:42 PM
There should, perhaps, be a distinction between "archaeologists" working on site and finding something and an off duty archaeologist walking along the footpath across a Staffordshire field who chances upon a find lying on the surface.
Drunky, the law in Scotland is that all finds from the soil accrue to the Crown where in England and Wales its only treasure items. And technically, as far as I know, the payment to finders of treasure items across the UK is "ex gratia" - no one is actually ENTITLED to anything.
Drunky, the law in Scotland is that all finds from the soil accrue to the Crown where in England and Wales its only treasure items. And technically, as far as I know, the payment to finders of treasure items across the UK is "ex gratia" - no one is actually ENTITLED to anything.