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The search for a hammer led to a huge treasure in Britain!
The Hoxne Hoard is one of the largest Roman treasure hoards ever to have been discovered in Britain. It consists of almost 15,000 coins and 200 other gold and silver objects buried in the 5th century AD. When Eric Lawes set off for a field in Hoxne village, Suffolk on November 16, 1992, it wasn’t on a treasure hunt. The metal detector he’d received as a retirement gift was meant to find a hammer lost on the farmland. But the detector picked up a strong signal in the earth, leading Lawes to start digging, and it quickly became apparent that he had indeed found treasure. He reported the treasure to archaeologists and they excavated. 60 pounds of gold and silver objects were found. Lowes received £1.75 million from the British government. The treasure is now in the British Museum.

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