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Museum to take action to change the definition of treasure

A surge in the number of detectorists unearthing historical artefacts has prompted a bid to broaden the legal definition of treasure to help museums to acquire important items. Interviews with Heritage Minister Lord Parkinson, and Chelmsford Museum curator Sarah Harvey. Roman figurine wearing a Birrus Britannicus cloak that is in the collection at Chelmsford Museum. It did not meet the current legal definition of treasure, but would meet the proposed new definition.
A surge in the number of detectorists unearthing historical artefacts has prompted a bid to broaden the legal definition of treasure to help museums to acquire important items. Interviews with Heritage Minister Lord Parkinson, and Chelmsford Museum curator Sarah Harvey. Roman figurine wearing a Birrus Britannicus cloak that is in the collection at Chelmsford Museum. It did not meet the current legal definition of treasure, but would meet the proposed new definition.
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