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Rant: Cataloging a single Roman coin hoard from a Sussex field took my team three entire years, not three months.
We kept hitting dead ends with the provincial mint marks and had to cross-reference finds from five different museum archives. Anyone else get stuck for ages on what seemed like a straightforward identification?
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victorcoleman2mo ago
Three years for one coin hoard?
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jake_martin162mo ago
Look at the sentencing guidelines for heritage crimes, victorcoleman. They don't mess around. Three years is the maximum, but they only hit that for the worst cases, like big organized digs on protected land. For a single hoard, you'd likely get a suspended sentence unless you caused major damage. The court cares more about how you found it and what you did after.
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ivanl7624d ago
Thing people ALWAYS forget in these convos - the PASSIVE looting angle. What if you stumbled on the hoard just walking the dog, told nobody, and the farmer finds out MONTHS later? That failure to report changes it from "oops I got excited" to "I KNEW and kept quiet." Courts hate that worse than the actual digging sometimes.
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