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The missing Penrith treasure mystery

Chris Linton found 64 silver coins and for 6 years didn't see them after handing them into the authorities. "It's what you dream of", finding a 13th Century horde. What he didn't expect was the "radio silence" that followed, and its raised questions for Cumbria's detectorists about the Portable Antiquities Scheme run by the British Museum

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