Just so, we have a life-changing treasure called "mutual guarantee" sleeping in our hearts, but we refuse to reach in and touch it.
The reason leads back to Westchester residents, and their resistance to changing a county treasure.
"The finds reported through the portable antiquities scheme and treasure are changing our understanding of the past, helping archaeologists learn where people lived and died and how these finds were used," MacGregor said.
It has made some inroads, because even small states that decide to invest national treasure in "changing history" can toss budgets in that direction, give royal welcomes and honours to naive westerners, sponsor biased research and cleverly push through resolutions abroad when people are busy with many other things and looking the other way.
Seventeen years after his death, however, and a month from the centenary of his birth, the threat that Lee would make disappear is on the brink of permanently changing the landscape he so treasured.
This younger sister of Ness of Brodgar belongs to a different age but, just like its older Orcadian sibling, it is revealing artefacts and treasures that are changing dramatically our understanding of that period.
Changing descriptions of locations or replacing treasure found in the module with items better suited for your players are good and easy places to start.
Anyway, "The Changing Face of Liberty" abounds in treasures like these.
To the broadsheet commentariat, the people involved – and, in particular, the people who've died – are tragic victims of an increasingly banal society, a depleted culture that treasures mindless peacocking over changing things for the better.
Often, these expeditions are privately financed, speculative ventures which amount to little more than treasure-hunting.Modern robotics, however, is changing this.
