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My Treasure Diary - 18th August 2005
A number of people have been emailing me regarding my wee find.
Kevin Leahy, who is a Finds Adviser – Early Medieval metalwork, for the Portable Antiquities Scheme, is actually on holiday painting the fascias on his house (some holiday!) but has been following the discussions online and he has sent details of the runes to an expert in Germany to see what she makes of it.
I’ve also heard again this morning from Caroline, my FLO, that Barry Ager, the Viking specialist at the British Museum, was informed of the find the day she saw me. He has suggested to her that it was a job for the BM Anglo-Saxonist’s headed up by Leslie Webster.
Normally, to speed up the process Caroline would write the treasure reports for the British Museum, which are then used by the coroner at the inquest, but on this occasion she feels this is beyond her expertise and is requesting that the British Museum curator does the full report. She is now just waiting for the various expert opinions to come back and then will keep me posted.
Otherwise I now just have to wait for the Inquest to be scheduled – but this can only happen after the report is written and my wee find is with the British Museum which is likely to be in early September.
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