Jason Goodwin goes in search of treasure, but not the traditional gold and silver.
There is a man I know, the brother of a friend of my wife’s, who was born under a lucky star. He finds things. He will go for a walk along a track that has been walked a million times and come back with a Neolithic arrowhead. He gets the pound coin left in the locker, the tenner blowing down the street.
He once joined an archaeological dig, on its last day of operation. A whole summer…
