Metal detectorist on first trip finds iron-age treasure

A man who bought a metal detector because he wanted a hobby that got him out in the fresh air struck gold the first time he used it when he discovered an iron age treasure hoard possibly worth £1m.Safari park keeper David Booth, 35, had owned his metal detector for five days when he discovered four 2,000-year-old gold neckbands in a Stirlingshire field.The neckbands date from between the 1st and 3rd century BC and 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, unearthed in September, was revealed today . "It's absolutely unbelievable," he said. "I don't think it's really sunk in yet since the moment I discovered it."I'd just practised around the house with nails and bits and pieces. I went...

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