Overview
- Municipal workers discovered eight small bars during mowing, and a subsequent search with police uncovered two more.
- Officers seized the ten bars, some still in packaging, and are examining their origin.
- The discovery was made at a rain retention basin in Bannewitz in the Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge district near Dresden.
- Police spokesman Marko Laske said the procedure for handling the find remains undecided as inquiries continue.
- Mayor Heiko Wersig proposed channeling any proceeds to local volunteer associations if the gold remains unclaimed and unlinked to a crime.