A Modern Legal History Of Treasure

This book examines treasure law and practice from the rise of the new science of archaeology in the early Victorian period to the present day. Drawing on largelyunexamined state records and other archives the book covers several legal jurisdictions England and Wales Scotland Ireland pre and postindependence and postpartition Northern Ireland. From the Mold gold cape 1833 to the Broighter hoard 1896 from Sutton Hoo 1939 to the Galloway hoard 2014 the law of treasure trove and the Treasure Act