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Cheat!

Buried Treasure

Cheat!

Sony Music

True Crime, Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Layton Davies and George Powell take a drive to Herefordshire in the UK one June day in 2015. They’re going to walk around a field…with their metal detectors. They’re detectorists and they plan to spend the day searching the ground for any goods. To their surprise, they strike on literal gold. They found treasure. And now they’ve got to figure out what they’re going to do with it because, as the saying goes: finders keepers. But that’s not what the law says. A Somethin’ Else production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's an early summer day in South Wales, United Kingdom.

0:13.4

Two buddies, Layton Davies and George Powell, are taking a drive.

0:18.6

They speed past the small streets of the town they call home into the lush green valleys

0:23.5

of the British countryside.

0:25.4

Powell, a 38-year-old warehouse worker, and Davies, who's a little bit older than his

0:30.4

friend and a school custodian, are heading to a hamlet in Haredfordshire, accounting in

0:35.2

West England.

0:37.2

But they aren't just out driving for the hell of it.

0:40.4

They're traveling all that way to walk around in a field.

0:47.5

That's because Davies and Powell are detectries.

0:51.8

What are they detecting?

0:52.8

You might ask.

0:55.8

Yep, detectries are the people who walk along the beach or, in this case, a grassy

1:02.8

field with that long contraption metal detecting thing looking for, well, whatever it is they

1:10.7

can find.

1:12.7

Now there are certain rules when it comes to detecting.

1:16.4

First and foremost, you've got to get permission from the person whose land you're detecting

1:21.1

on.

1:22.1

I suppose that makes sense.

1:24.0

And while Davies and Powell had permission to scan this property, once they got going,

1:30.6

they were in the zone.

1:31.9

I mean, listening to the metal detector, waiting for something to send this thing into a

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