Archaeologist Gary Bankhead, an archaeologist at Durham University, has uncovered a cache of rare religious artifacts deliberately thrown in an English river, the River Wear in Durham. The artifacts, which included a bronze crucifix, silver trowel and a christening spoon, included a silver key, a 19th-century Russian icon depicting Jesus on the cross, a silver medal from 1964 showing Christ with open arms, and a gold Greek Orthodox cross pendant. Bankhead has linked the hoard to Michael Ramsey, an English bishop who served as the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1961 to 1974. He found a clear pattern in the objects' placement and determined that their housekeeper, Audrey Heaton, had removed them from the house at the instruction of Joan Ramsey, the bishop's wife. The items were not randomly dispersed, but were arranged in distinct locations across the riverbed and were later found in distinct clusters beneath Prebends Bridge, one of Durham's best-known bridges. Despite his discovery, Bankhead spent two years recovering the artifacts and has donated his share of the treasure to the Help for Heroes charity.