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My Treasure Diary - 12th November 2005
Caroline has told me that as the brooch is a straight forward object, she’ll write the report and send it onto the British Museum. This means the Treasure Registrar can get the complete file to the Essex coroner and it gets to an inquest much quicker. The British Museum curators are often overstretched, so Caroline helps where she can by writing these reports.
A British Museum curator will vet Carolines report and make any changes/additions if needed.
This differs to the Gold fragment I found earlier - which is highly unusual, and therefore it requires that more extensive network of experts available to the British Museum.
Will be interesting to see whether there will be any significant time difference between the two items working their way through the Treasure Act process - will keep you posted!
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