Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

After carefully looking at the chess piece, Liang En began to take out everything in the secret room and put it into the storage box he had prepared when he came here.

But as he kept taking out the chess pieces one by one from the secret room and counting them, his initial excitement gradually turned into surprise.

Because the wizard chess played by Harry and Ron in the first Harry Potter movie was based on the chess pieces from the Isle of Lewis, Liang En specifically looked up information about this thing out of curiosity.

According to data, a total of 93 cultural relics were unearthed from this treasure. Includes 78 chess pieces, 14 round chips and a belt buckle. But the number of things Liang En had extracted from this secret room had obviously exceeded this number.

In the end, Liang En took out a total of 149 items. It includes 128 chess pieces, 20 round chips and a belt buckle, all of which appear to be made of animal bones or teeth.

Although it can be seen that these 128 chess pieces do not come from the same source, they can make up four complete sets of chess. This is obviously much larger than the treasure in Liang En's impression.

The reason for this error is also very simple. After all, the discoverer of the treasure in Liang En's previous world was a farmer, and the first chess piece was discovered by a cow while herding cattle.

In addition, more than a hundred years after this discovery, an ordinary British man found a chess piece from his home and auctioned it for a sky-high price of several hundred thousand pounds.

These two things illustrate one thing from the side, that is, in the world before Liang En, the secret room built in the dunes should have been destroyed for some reason at that time, so the items originally stored were also lost.

But in this world now, the secret room in the dunes is completely sealed. In other words, the preservation of items here is more complete than that in another world.

As for the price of a complete set of chess pieces, he would not think about it at all, because in the previous world this was a national treasure of Britain, and there was no way it would have a price.

After cleaning up all the things in the cave and putting them into bags, the excavation work was over. The next thing he had to do was to deal with the excavated things.

Liang En studied archeology in college before, so he brought a lot of professional tools and medicines with him before coming here. Therefore, after just simple processing, there is no need to worry about unnecessary damage to these chess pieces.

But on the other hand, it is more complicated. At least from a legal perspective, this thing cannot be said to completely belong to him now. There are a few other things to do if you want to actually get your hands on this thing.

There are slight legal differences between this world and the previous world. For example, the Scottish region of both worlds has legal provisions that require that treasures unearthed need to be sold to designated museums.

However, from a legal perspective, items identified as "treasures" must be at least 300 years old and must contain 10% gold or silver.

At the same time, any other items found at the site where the treasure was found - regardless of the materials they are made of - can be classified as "treasure".

And now there is no metal in the treasure spot that Liang En found, so from a purely legal point of view, it will not even be recognized as a treasure.

More importantly, there is still an exception to British law in this world, that is, the territory purchased by the nobles before 1900 and which has been owned by the nobles from 1900 to the present is still governed by the ancient "Treasure Law".

In other words, those who discover treasures in this area do not need to force the sale of the treasures they find, but decide the distribution of these treasures between the two parties after discussing with the owners of those territories.

According to this law, these small sculptures obtained by Liang En naturally belong to him. After all, this island is a noble territory that meets the additional conditions stipulated by the law, and the previously signed contract also guarantees this.

After all, if it weren’t for this, it would be impossible for everyone to pay 120 pounds for two days, bring a metal detector and an expensive 60 pounds to hunt for treasures on the island.

Of course, digging is not possible everywhere on the island. For example, excavation is prohibited for Stonehenge on the island, the city and surrounding areas, and several ancient residential areas that add up to more than 1/10 of the area.

This is why he was given a small GPS locator when he signed an agreement in the city. As long as he enters the prohibited excavation area, the locator will vibrate and beep to remind the carrier to leave.

It took more than ten minutes to drive back to Stornoway, and Liang En went straight to the building where the excavation permit had been issued to obtain documents for his treasures.

This is a semi-open room with several staff members sitting and chatting. When Liang En put his bag on the counter, those people just glanced at him and continued chatting.

"Gentlemen and ladies, I found something, please help me register it." After waiting for several minutes without seeing any reaction from these people, Liang En could only remind him.

"Wait a minute, Asians." A slightly bloated middle-aged man turned to Liang En and said, "It's just a little bit of junk, so wait until we finish chatting, okay?"

"Please hurry up -" After hearing this person's answer, Liang En could only sigh helplessly, and then sat back in his seat. Obviously, these guys are a bunch of racists.

As an Asian, it is not uncommon to encounter such people in Europe and America. It can even be said to be common.

Of course, there are not many racists who actually resort to violent attacks or insults in person, because it is easy to be caught and directly accused of doing such things. However, it is a very common behavior to use one's own rights to create some obstacles. .

Although it may be more satisfying to confront people directly at this time, it is not worth the gain to conflict with these people when you are pregnant with a huge treasure. So Liang En simply sat down on the stool next to him and started browsing on his phone.

This group of staff is discriminatory, but they don't dare to go too far due to the regulations. So after waiting for him for seven or eight minutes, someone stood up and handled the documents required for Liang En to take away these things.

Due to the regulations on the island, the staff here do not need to have the skills to identify antiques. In addition, there were no precious metals or gems in this treasure and there was no racial discrimination among the staff, so they quickly registered these things as a routine and then returned the documents and those things to Liang En.

"Some rough chess pieces. That Asian guy dug up plastic toys discarded by others from some garbage dump and kept them as treasures——"

Just as Liang En walked out of the room, he heard a slightly mean and sarcastic voice coming from behind him and several people laughing sarcastically.

"This means that the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked." Liang En whispered in Chinese when he went out, with a smile full of contempt on his face.

After all, this territory has belonged to Sir John Mathison, a notorious drug trafficker who smuggled opium into China since the late 19th century. From this perspective, it is understandable that those staff are also rubbish.

After completing the formalities, Liang En took the latest barge back to Ullapool. Because it was getting dark, he decided to stay here for one night and wait until the next day to leave.

Because he had a huge harvest this time, Liang En simply went to a restaurant in town and spent fifteen pounds to have a good meal.

Unfortunately, because I am not used to the famous Scottish dish "Haggis", which is also the famous stuffed lamb tripe, the meal for this meal is just the usual steak and pasta.

After dinner, Liang En returned to his residence, and only then did he have time to observe the cards he had obtained before.