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British Treasure Find Worth $5.4M

Anglo-Saxon gold unearthed by jobless searcher this summer

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff

Posted Nov 26, 2009 10:50 AM CST

(Newser) – An amateur British treasure hunter and the owner of the field where he struck gold are in for a big payday: His find turns out to be a 7th-century Anglo-Saxon cache of the precious metal. The collection is worth about $5.4 million, British Museum...   Read full story »

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