Fark linked up this story about a guy who discovered one of the largest caches of Roman coins found in England while digging a new fishpond on his property. British antiquity rules are a little complicated, so it's not clear if he'll get to keep it or if the government will sieze it.

Finding cool stuff buried in your back yard is definitely one of the neater things about living in Europe. However, I must admit neat is in the eye of the beholder. My old classics instructor in college said that the antiquity laws in Greece are extremely complex and troublesome. So much so that most of the time when someone digs up a statue when they are, say, re-working their basement, they simply bury it deeper and swear everyone to secrecy.