Simon (68) reluctantly returns medieval tiles that he stole from a mighty monastery ruin as a little boy

It was the summer of 1967. And it had been my father’s idea. While he stood guard, Simon stood as a 9-year-old boy with a sweat on his back, prying up three 700-year-old floor tiles in a medieval monastery ruin. Now, 60 years later, Simon reluctantly returns the tiles.

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