Jason Price Sentenced After eBay Roman Brooch Fraud

Jason Price received a suspended prison sentence after admitting he bought the celebrated Leasingham horse brooch and other supposed finds from eBay, following years of claims that drew national attention in Britain.Lincolnshire Police said the Grantham detectorist filed multiple entries through the Portable Antiquities Scheme to Lincolnshire County Council, including items later found not to be genuine, and even buried objects to try to trigger an archaeological dig near Long Bennington.The fraud case lands amid a broader provenance crackdown after the British Museum began recruiting a “treasure hunter” to trace more than 1,500 missing antiquities it suspects were sold online, with only about 650 recovered so far.