Not our usual fare, but you can’t ignore it when an unemployed man living on the dole makes one of the greatest archaeological finds in British history using a metal detector. Our slideshow of the 11 pounds of gold and nearly 6 pounds of silver artifacts, believed to be Anglo-Saxon war loot from the 7th century:

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