9.3.2011 Golden treasure from the Iron Age

The Iron Age gold treasure found near Stirling by a search engine with a metal detector was sold for almost one million pounds ten years ago. The finder got half. The depot contained four golden Celtic necklaces.

The lucky finder was David Booth, who searched for a moment with a metal detector. He wanted to find a new hobby that would entertain him. When he was learning to operate the detector, he looked for cutlery in the kitchen. He found the treasure soon, in September 2009. Booth received half the money from the sale. The second owner of the land where the necklaces were located.

Jewelry dates from the 1st to the 3rd century BC. The National Heritage Monument Fund, the Arts Fund, the Scottish Government and the Scottish National Museum have helped to ensure that the treasure is acquired by the state and can be viewed by the public in the future. Later, the treasure was also seen in the national collections.

Booth found the treasure in a place that was only about two meters away from his car. Experts said that the neckerchiefs are an example of beautiful craftsmanship from the Iron Age.

"We are delighted to have secured this great treasure so that we can exhibit it at the Scottish National Museum. Even without it, we had an annual attendance of over 600,000 people. I expect the jewelry to attract even more visitors to us. We want to exhibit them on the occasion of the opening of the museum after extensive reconstruction, "said Gordon Rintoul, director of the Scottish National Museum.

Finding neckerchiefs is the most important golden treasure in the history of Scotland that has ever been found. The seeker went to Stirling because he heard that a few beautiful things from the Iron Age had already been found there. He also longed for treasure.

Of the four golden neckerchiefs found, the experts liked the one that had beautiful decorative ends. It is made of eight decorative gold wires. "When the detector started to emit a signal, I immediately started digging with a garden spade. About fifteen centimeters deep, I saw a flash of one of the neckties, then I found the rest, "said Booth, who works in a safari park as a breeder and spent about 240 pounds on his first metal detector.

We wrote about the treasure here: https://www.lovecpokladu.cz/home/detektorem-kovu-nasel-zlato-za-1-milion-liber-4781

Sources: www.dailyrecord.co.uk, www.bbc.com, www.theguardian.com