Novice finds £1m treasure trove
Safari park keeper David Booth, 35, had owned his metal detector for just five days when he discovered four 2,000-year-old gold neckbands in a Stirlingshire field. The neckbands, dating from between the 1st and 3rd century BC, represent the most important hoard of Iron Age gold in Scotland to date.
Booth, the chief game warden at Blair Drummond Safari Park, near Stirling, joined experts at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh as the treasure was revealed yesterday. He said he was still trying to come to terms with the importance of his discovery.
