Sentence examples for treasure finds from inspiring English sources

The British Museum report covers treasure finds, which must by law be reported, and other objects which detectorists are encouraged to report and can then keep or sell.

Treasure finds must be reported by law, but there were also 74,000 less valuable but often fascinating objects reported voluntarily under the Portable Antiquities Scheme.

It was among 990 treasure finds reported that year, mostly discovered by metal detectors, according to the annual report by the British Museum.

It turned out to be one of the most spectacular treasure finds of 2012, 1kg of silver fashioned into a massive jug.

One of the oddest recent treasure finds was a criminal's hoard of hundreds of what look like blackened toenail cuttings, from Gloucestershire.

It is among almost 100,000 finds of archaeological objects, and 970 treasure finds including Roman gold and Viking silver, almost all found by metal detectorists, covered by the latest report from the Portable Antiquities Scheme.

They headline in set pieces and protracted scenes, suffer shootings and poisonings, enact strategic whoring, survive storms at sea, find treasure sewn in dresses, lose the treasure, find it again.

Another treasure, found in 1968 is "Jade Shroud for a Princess", a complete costume composed of small squares of pale jade, sewed together with gold wire.

The considerable deposits of treasure found in the earliest prehistoric strata on the site of Troy are not likely to be later than 2000 bc.

A newcomer to Anarchy Online might play off and on for a month and accumulate, say, 100,000 credits by killing monsters and selling treasure found on the corpses.

He added: "All finders of treasure can take encouragement that the most valuable treasure find ever made was dealt with so speedily and yet so scrupulously by all parties concerned, given that the hoard was discovered only in July.