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Old 11-16-2010, 11:40 AM
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Default Boy, 4, unearths £1m treasure trove on FIRST metal detecting expedition
Boy, 4, unearths £1m treasure trove on FIRST metal detecting expedition

A four-year-old boy unearthed a rare 16th century gold pendant which could
be worth millions of pounds, on his first ever metal detecting trip.

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Only a couple of miles from where I live

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Old 11-16-2010, 11:53 AM
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WOW!! What kind of metal detector was a 3 year old using to hear that signal 8 inches deep..

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Nice treasure that he found. You all may hate me for observing, but does his head seem to be a little out of proportion?

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Nice treasure that he found. You all may hate me for observing, but does his head seem to be a little out of proportion?
Probably a wide angle lens doing that.

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Nice treasure that he found. You all may hate me for observing, but does his head seem to be a little out of proportion?
Rick you are a bad bad man...

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Incredible find... would like to have seen more pictures... but amazing what they did show.... RickO

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Naw, he's got a top-secret English metal detector under his wig......I guess he's set for college now!!!!

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Rick you are a bad bad man...
Oh well

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My 8 year old son is going to flip when he sees this. He'll reason something like, "if that kid is 4 and can find that, imagine what I'M going to find!"
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I wish for th day I find something remotely close to this amazing! Stupid young Canada.

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Thanks Alan! Great story!!!

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That just hurts!

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Im selling everything down to the undies to get there
with all the find they just keep getting better...what was the last great find in the USA??? two gold plated pulltabs from the 20th century

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News clip here: http://www.itv.com/anglia/4-year-old-finds-gold86019/

Hopefully it's available outside of the UK ?.

If so it may not be there long.

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That's just... not.... fair....
4? What are the odds...wow
Good for him.

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The really sad thing is that he can't truly appreciate it right now. It'd be great if they had caught it on a live dig. That kid just paid for those diapers he dirtied in the past few years, that's for sure.

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The really sad thing is that he can't truly appreciate it right now. It'd be great if they had caught it on a live dig. That kid just paid for those diapers he dirtied in the past few years, that's for sure.
hahahaha...no doubt bonesquat no doubt.

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Dang! I should have started 51 years earlier!

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They changed the article title to 3 years old and 2.5million pounds...

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Thats a great story better than anything I could dream of finding . Thanks for sharing the story with us Alan .The people across the pond have alot better targets to detect for than most of us here do .



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