Browsing the BBC News headlines today, I came across the article "Huge Anglo-Saxon gold hoard found." OMG! So exciting!!!! Then it got better - the finding was declared TREASURE. By the CORONER. And is worth SEVEN FIGURES. It was found by a guy with a METAL DETECTOR!
Ok, there are lots of cool things about this article, mostly the fact that it was just some guy out in the field with a metal detector - I have a metal detector! - and it is a HUGE TREASURE! But also because it was the coroner that declared it a treasure. Is that normal? The coroner? Does coroner have a different meaning in Britain than it does here? Was the treasure at one point alive?
Speaking in analogies, if a coroner declares people dead who were once alive, and declares this finding a treasure, what was it before it was declared treasure?
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