A local resident has made Burntwood the most well-known place in the world over night. Terry Herbert went metal detecting one day and, after finding 16p in two and one-pence coins, found a massive collection of 1,500 gold and silver items dating back to the 7th Century.
The find includes a collosal 5kg of gold and 2.5kg of silver in a field near Hammerwich. Mr Herbert is currently at home trying to get the 17 TV vans and 23 newspaper reporters to move away from his house. We managed to get a few words with him as some reporters besieged his house…
“You lot and your Twitter feeds and Facebook accounts – every frigger in the planet knows where I live now, and the worst part is that I can’t even keep the ruddy gold. Apparently it’s “treasure” so the bloody QUEEN gets to keep it.”
“Do you know how long I’ve been sitting here watching those ‘Sell Your Gold’ TV ads? If I’d managed to break that crown up I could’ve got about £10,000 alone. Instead I’ve got the BBC, Sky News and ruddy Central News parked on my lawn buggering up my roses. Bugger off!”
Link – BBC News
