A young boy joins treasure hunters on a beach in Folkestone, yesterday, searching for gold bullion buried there by German artist Michael Sailstorfer as part of the Folkestone Triennial. Thirty gold bars have been buried prompting a flood of bounty hunters. The gold bars, worth a total of pounds 10,000 were buried by Berlin-based Michael Sailstorfer as part of an arts festival. The bars, worth around pounds 300 each, are a few centimetres long. Members of the public will be allowed to keep any of the bullion which they find.

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