3yr Old With Metal Detector Finds 4million Dollar Pendant

Note to self: Add metal detector to Christmas wish-list.

Probably due to English law. I could be wrong but the Government gets it all. I mean, it obviously belongs in a museum of course, but the 3 year old and dad get no money for it.
Someone please set me straight if I'm wrong.

Much of this stuff was buried by the Romans only to come back later and retrieve it. They never came back or were killed in combat or forgot where they buried it. Good for us I guess :) This pendant has an obvious christian influence so I am wondering who may have dropped/buried it.

How I am understanding this story is

I think the land owners permission was asked to hunt the property, just as it is done here.
I have asked many land owners permission to metal detect their property.

With out going back and reading British treasure trove laws, it goes something like this

If you find something of historical value, you turn it into the government. They determine
if it is something they wish to put into a museum. If they (the British government) want it,
they are required to pay a fair market price, in this case to the finder and the land owner.

There is another part that goes something like, if found treasure at one time was owned by
the crown and was hidden, for example, from invading vikings .. then the government might
keep it. I don't think that applies here.

If they do not want it for a museum, then it is returned. And the parties involved would determine
how to sell the treasure.

There must be some crazy set of rules involved with metal detecting eh?

Unwritten rules? or are these clearly stated anywhere?

Always know where you are and always ask. AND ALWAYS leave a place better than you found it, make sure the gates are closed if you found them closed.
Some areas of the country landowners are extremely sensitive to strangers of anykind on their property. I currently live in such an area... high crime and high vandalism has made landowners grumpy. Local treasure hunters hearabouts run craigs list ads offering landowners 50% of the take for permission to hunt.
True story: My dad would let anybody hunt his land if they would simply ask. Once he spotted a car load of "slickers" drive right by our house, right past the "posted" sign, right through an open gate into our lower pastures. Dad simply walked over and padlocked the gate shut... a few hours later some sheepish hunters came walking up to the house seeking permission to hunt... retroactively.

My suggestion is if you find something, just shut up! Don't tell anybody anything. All kind of jerks will come out of woodwork and create lots of headache.

Im sure you can google it and get the facts