Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2019
Publication Information
22 Int'l Trade Bus. L. Rev. 271 (2019)
Abstract
In the more than twenty years since the Treasure Act 1996 (UK) c 24 came into force, there have been many dramatic discoveries of treasure.' The media frequently reports the results of remarkable finds usually made by metal detectorists in fields and open spaces. A unique, not to say bizarre, example, however, is the discovery of a cache of gold coins found concealed in a piano in Shropshire in 2016.2 It makes the point that the old law of treasure trove still has a twilight existence in circumstances that are prone to recur.
Recommended Citation
Geoffrey Bennett,
The Case of the Shropshire Piano Treasure,
22 Int'l Trade Bus. L. Rev. 271 (2019).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/law_faculty_scholarship/1502
Comments
At publication, Geoffrey Bennett was a Senior Fellow Institute of Art and Law; Visiting Professor Queen Mary Centre for Commercial Law Studies, University of London.
An earlier version of this note appeared in (2018) XXIII(3) Art, Antiquity and Law 269.