A treasure hunter has discovered the largest gold nugget ever found in England worth £30,000 - despite having a faulty metal detector.
A treasure hunter has discovered the largest gold nugget ever found in England worth £30,000 - despite having a faulty metal detector.Richard Brock, 67, travelled three-and-a-half hours from his home in Somerset to join an organised expedition on farmland in the Shropshire Hills.
"So I drove three-and-a-half hours to Shropshire and I actually arrived about an hour late, thinking I'd missed the action. "I was a perhaps bit too honest and started showing people, and then all of a sudden I had swarms of other detectorists scanning the same area. "I couldn't look for anything else as I had the land owner, the organiser of the dig and every other detectorist around me trying to get a look at this nugget."Just what a gold nugget was doing in the Shropshire Hills, near Much Wenlock, remains somewhat of a mystery.
Richard Brock arrived an hour late and had to use a back-up metal detector which wasn't working properly. Photo: SWNSThe only previous bigger examples in Britain have been found in either Wales and Scotland.
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