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The BROKEN HOARD

On a summer Sunday in 2009, Terry Herbert swept his metal detector over Fred Johnson’s fields in Staffordshire, England. Herbert wasn’t the first to ask to search the farmer’s land. And Herbert had looked there before. But on July 5, Herbert’s equipment gave off the high-pitched sound that meant it detected metal. Herbert bent down to look. Then he pulled a piece of gold from the ground! That bit of gold was only the beginning.

In England, anyone who finds buried treasure has to report it to the local authorities in case the find is important to history. After looking at Herbert’s discovery, a team of archaeologists worked to carefully excavate the site. Eventually they uncovered almost 4,000 objects! Gold made up about 75% of what

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