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Another smelled like a pile of wet rope encrusted with seaweed and left to rot in the sun, and a nasty, fishy aroma it was.

On first looking upon the object, Stais regarded it as nothing more than a large pile of encrusted bronze.

Burns says that was all part of figuring out “how to loosen the barnacles of sentimentality that have encrusted themselves” on the war.

Police also found on the ground nearby the damaged crown of Empress Eugénie, encrusted with 1,354 diamonds and 56 emeralds.

A ninth object -- the diamond- and emerald encrusted crown of the Empress Eugenie -- was recovered nearby, where it was dropped by the thieves as they fled, the statement added.