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Finders Keepers review: All treasure, no tat... those Anglo-Saxon hoarders had the right idea! writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Back in the Dark Ages, hoarding was an art. Our ancestors had only rudimentary tools, but Anglo-Saxon hoarders did hang on to the richest gems.

You don't see Professor Alice Roberts, on one of her archaeology shows, digging up some lost hoard that was once a Wessex palace shed filled to overflowing with 'useful' bits of bone, bent copper thingummy-bobs, rusty iron nails and goatskin leggings with a split in the seam. This was beginner's luck for Martin's future son-in-law Ashley (James Buckley), a wide boy who just happened to know a bloke down the pub with connections in the black market for buried hoards. Writer Dan Sefton also created ITV's The Good Karma Hospital, and Finders Keepers has a similar tone, balancing some emotional melodrama with one-liners and a promise that, however sticky things get for Martin, the ending will work out all right.

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