found treasure
Unearthed buried wealth
Found treasure is valuables discovered rather than inherited, purchased, or earned through labor.
The phrase appears in legal contexts where ownership of discovered items—buried coins, shipwreck gold, artifacts—depends on where and how they were found: The museum claimed the found treasure under maritime law.
Laws vary on whether finders can keep found treasure or must surrender it to landowners or the state.
- discoveredFound something previously unknown
- unearthedRetrieved from the ground
- buriedPlaced beneath earth
- goldElement seventy-nine
- lost goldPrecious metal gone missing
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found treasurelost treasure
Valuables gone missing
stolen property · stolen goods · buried treasure · sunken gold
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