Caught selling treasure

[Ian61]

Just spotted this on BBC.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-65243814
Good thing.

[Imperial Dave]

good.....!

[Duncan Head]

And now convicted - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/27/two-men-guilty-of-trying-to-sell-history-changing-anglo-saxon-coins-illegally

[Imperial Dave]

Good!!!!

[Erpingham]

BBC report on the story, with a couple of different photos and another attempt to explain historical significance.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-65401761

[Duncan Head]

And now https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/27/alfred-the-average-court-case-coins-may-alter-the-view-of-a-king

[Ian61]

BBC report on the story, with a couple of different photos and another attempt to explain historical significance.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-65401761

And now https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/27/alfred-the-average-court-case-coins-may-alter-the-view-of-a-king

Thanks for posting those updates. Sounds like another case of the winners writing the history. The Guardian article comes close to what seems a modern habit of looking for a conspiracy in the evidence, when in truth the world was a dangerous place and so many more different things could have killed you quite randomly than we would not expect now.