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An amateur metal detectorist in Norway has made the gold ‘find of the century’ including coins dating back around a millennium and a half. Erlend Bore, 51, believed he had come across some chocolate money when he made the find in a farmer’s field on Rennesoey island, near Stavanger, in late August. He was shocked to learn he had in fact dug up nine pendants , three rings and 10 gold pearls – some of which date back as far as the fall of the Roman Empire. Mr Bore said that he had bought his first metal detector only this year after his doctor ordered him to get out more instead of sitting on the sofa at home. Ole Madsen, director at the Archaeological Museum at the University of Stavanger, said that to find ‘so much gold at the same time is extremely unusual’. ‘This is the gold find of the century in Norway,’ he said, announcing the find today. Amateur archaeologist Erlend Bore poses with a gold treasure photographed shortly after he found it with the help of a metal ...

Paul Coleman, 59, whose bank accounts are all in the red, almost stayed at home because he could barely afford to fill up his car to go on the dig A hard-up metal detector fan told today how he found an amazing £1million hoard of coins. Paul Coleman, 59, whose bank accounts are all in the red, almost stayed at home because he could barely afford to fill up his car to go on the dig. But hours later he unearthed more than 5,000 Anglo-Saxon silver coins – one of the biggest finds ever made in Britain. Experts believe the hoard may have been buried after the Battle of Hastings to protect it from the Norman invaders. Jobless Paul will split the money from his find with the landowner farmer. He made the discovery just before Christmas and his present to wife Christine, 53, was a pledge to buy a new house. In the money: Paul with wife Christine The dad-of-two said: “I wasn’t going to go to th...