See, for example, the following news articles: Rebecca Morelle (16 May 2007), "Antarctic 'treasure trove' found", BBC News ("An extraordinarily diverse array of marine life has been discovered in the deep, dark waters around Antarctica."); Helen Briggs (11 March 2008), "Cosmic 'treasure trove' revealed", BBC News ("A Nasa space probe measuring the oldest light in the Universe has found that cosmic neutrinos made up 10% of matter shortly after the Big Bang. ... Scientists say it is collecting a 'treasure trove' of information about the Universe's age, make-up and fate.")
John M. Kleeberg, Treasure Trove Law in the United States(PDF), Numismatik.org – Texte und Materialien zur Numismatik [Texts and Materials about Numismatics], pp. 15–16, retrieved 13 April 2008.
"Rewards to finders of treasure trove", Treasure Trove [Scotland], Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, archived from the original on 24 May 2007, retrieved 13 April 2008.
"Rewards to finders of treasure trove", Treasure Trove [Scotland], Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, archived from the original on 24 May 2007, retrieved 13 April 2008.
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John Rastell (1624), Les Termes de la Ley: Or, Certaine Difficult and Obscure Words and Termes of the Common Lawes of this Realme Expounded. [By John Rastell.] Now newly imprinted, and much inlarged and augmented, London: Company of Stationers, p. 565, OCLC222436919; Joseph Chitty the Younger (1820), A Treatise on the Law of the Prerogatives of the Crown; and the Relative Duties and Rights of the Subject, London: J. Butterworth & Son, p. 152, OCLC66375255, cited with approval in Attorney-General v. Moore, p. 683, and Attorney-General v. Trustees of British Museum, p. 608.
De Officio Coronatoris (Office of Coroner Act) 1276 (4 Edw. 1. c. 2), which was declaratory of the common law. This statute was repealed by the Coroners Act 1887 (50 & 51 Vict. c. 71), s. 45, Sch. 3, but the coroner's jurisdiction as regards treasure trove was preserved by ss. 36 and 45(5) of the same Act. See also Bracton, book 3, ch. 6, fol. 122; John Britton (1865), Francis Morgan Nichols (ed.), Britton: The French Text Carefully Revised, with an English Translation, Introduction and Notes, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 8, 18, 66, OCLC25061529; Michael Dalton (1670), Officium Vicecomitum: The Office and Authority of Sherifs: Gathered out of the Statutes ... to which is Added an Appendix ... containing a Collection of the Statutes Touching Sheriffs made since Mr. Dalton's Writing ... With a New and Copious Table, wherein the Defects ... of the Old Table are Supplyed, [etc.], London: Printed by John Streater, James Flesher, and Henry Twyford, assigns of Richard Atkins and Edward Atkins, and are to be sold by George Sawbridge, [etc.], p. 376, OCLC12414543.
Edward Umfreville (1761), Lex Coronatoria: Or the Office and Duty of Coroners, [etc.], London: [s.n.], p. 536, OCLC79529094, 2 vols.; Attorney-General v. Moore, p. 683; Attorney-General of the Duchy of Lancaster v. G.E. Overton (Farms) Ltd., p. 287.
For comments on difficulties caused by the law relating to treasure trove, see Roger Bland (1996), "Treasure Trove and the Case for Reform", Art, Antiquity and Law, Leicester: Institute of Art and Law: 11, ISSN1362-2331.
Lord Hunter, Lord Advocate v. University of Aberdeen, p. 542, citing Thomas Craig; James Avon Clyde, transl. (1934), The Jus Feudale ... With an Appendix Containing the Books of the Feus, Edinburgh; London: William Hodge & Co., OCLC15085710, vol. 1, ch. 16, pp. 40 and 45; James Dalrymple, Viscount Stair (1832), John S. More (ed.), The Institutions of the Law of Scotland, Deduced from its Originals, and Collated with the Civil, Canon, and Feudal Laws, and with the Customs of Neighbouring Nations (2nd, rev., corr. & much enl. ed.), Edinburgh: Bell & Bradfute, OCLC60714357, vol. 2, ch. 3, p. 60, and vol. 3, ch. 3, p. 27; Bankton, An Institute of the Laws of Scotland in Civil Rights, vol. 1, ch. 3, p. 16; and Bell, Principles of the Law of Scotland, s. 1293.
