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Iron Age Neckband Discovered by Man and His Metal Detector

from the Daily Mail (UK)

For 40 years, Maurice Richardson has been braving all weathers to scour the countryside with his trusty metal detector, dreaming of buried treasure. But he almost ignored an unpromising-sounding beep as he searched for debris from a wartime air crash while being pelted with rain.

However the 59-year-old is glad his curiosity got the better of him after his persistence in digging through more than two feet of Nottinghamshire mud yielded a stunning 2,000-year-old gold treasure.

Now the artefact, an Iron Age torc, has been sold for a mammoth £350,000, and Tuesday it was unveiled at the British Museum as the most valuable discovery in recent times.