05/05/2024
The Discovery of the ‘Stunning’ - ‘Hadleigh Hoard’ By Local Cat
Historians and Archaeologists have both been amazed by the recent discovery this weekend of literally hundreds of bronze, copper and what eyewitnesses have reported as being a ‘multitude of silver looking coins’ of varying nominations, at a location in Seymour Road, Hadleigh, Essex, UK.
Already termed the ‘Hadleigh Hoard’ by history buffs around the world– Professor Bob Rod, of Beamfleot University has already summed up this discovery as “actually stunning”. Professor Rod continues “This is an exciting new find – an early assessment of the hoard contents suggests that its coinage covers a date range from the early 1970’s to coins as late as 2023, covering the majority of one monarch’s reign.”
And the discovery unusually is credited to a local cat – and also a resident of property. Mrs Sarah Hicks, 25, told our reporters “I was having my morning pint of milk stout and wondered why my cat, Bacchus, kept rubbing himself against this huge old whiskey bottle in our living room that my partner had brought back from the pub thirty years ago and noticed it was filled with coins.”
Ms Hicks, doll collector, 35, continues “I called down Jamie, who was in his cups, who then did inform me he had actually been keeping all his change from the pub in it, since at least 1996.”
I was stunned, Dr Hicks continues “I mean I always wondered why he never had any five pences on him, and now I know why.”
Our reporters finally caught up with Mr Jamie Spracklen (50) just outside the Castle Pub, Hadleigh, before he went into the local Iceland outlet to buy a meat pie. Mr Spracklen, a renowned local inebriate and poet, confirmed the story, but declined to further comment on what he or Professor Hicks will do with their new found wealth.
The cat also declined to comment.
