RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / WEST SUSSEX COUNTY COUNCIL " - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS
A handout picture released by West Sussex County Council on July 4, 2018 and take on July 3, 2018 shows, a ceremonial parchment manuscript copy of the American Declaration of Independence, dubbed the Sussex Declaration. A rare parchment copy of the American Declaration of Independence has been found at a British archive among the papers of an aristocrat who supported the rebels, officials have said. The manuscript was discovered at the West Sussex Record Office in the southern English city of Chichester by a team of researchers led by two Harvard University academics. Tests supported the hypothesis that it was produced in the 1780s, West Sussex County Council said earlier this week -- just a few years after the declaration itself was issued in 1776. / AFP PHOTO / West Sussex County Council / - / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / WEST SUSSEX COUNTY COUNCIL " - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS