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GRAB your shovels new figures have revealed a record number of buried treasure troves were discovered in Cumbria in 2019. Fortune hunters and metal detectorists made 25 discoveries over the year, data from the British Museum and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport showed. It represented the largest haul since 2012, while a total of 95 finds were reported in Cumbria over that eight-year period. Jane Laskey, the manager at the Senhouse Roman Museum in Maryport, believed the finds helped to show the centuries of history in Cumbria. She said: “Because of Cumbria’s geography and it’s position in the nation, at one point it was in Scotland and then in England and now part of a united kingdom, which has a huge impact.