Monday, 21 March 2011
Staffordshire Hoard: "I wish I'd never let him on my land in the first place"
A rift seems to have developed between farmer Fred Johnnson and detectorist Terry Herbert ("Sometimes I wish I'd never found that Hoard': How sharing £3m find of Saxon gold led to a bitter feud", Daily Mail March 21, 2011). There has been a frank exchange about access to land and the sharing of the "reward".
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