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Originally posted by piratenews:


'...A Scottish game warden who bought a metal detector for a new hobby discovered a £1m hoard of Iron Age jewellery - on his first outing.

...Half me was saying, 'that does look important', but I was thinking I couldn't be that lucky on my first go.

After taking delivery of his detector, Mr Booth practised for an hour in his kitchen and garden before going out into a local field with the landowner's permission.

"I parked up and got the metal detector out," he recalled. "There was an area of flat ground behind the car, and I thought, I'll just scan this first, before I head out into the field. Literally about seven steps behind where I had parked, I found them."

Mr Booth stands to earn a reward equivalent to the market value of his record find - he says £1m "would be lovely" but he'd settle for paying off his Ford Focus.

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