The farmer, who sported a bright gold wristwatch that signifies inordinate wealth (and sometimes indicates Taliban ties), retorted the ministry was "weak, " so the American "friends" needed to do it.

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Dr Kevin Leahy is an archaeologist from Scunthorpe who worked as an advisor on the excavation of the Staffordshire Hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold jewellery which was discovered by a metal detectorist in a farmer's field in July 2009.

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Bryan raged against bankers and the gold standard, enemies, he said, of the only true producers of wealth and prosperity, the American farmer.

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