Exhibition: the Brummie detectorist who chanced on royal treasure
The pendant bears the emblems of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon
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If you’ve seen people with metal detectors looking for buried treasure and wondered if they’d ever found a Victorian coin, a knife or perhaps a metal pipe, you will gasp at what Charlie Clarke, a cafe owner from Birmingham, discovered in the mud of a dried-up pond on a soggy day in north Warwickshire. Clarke had only had his metal detector for six months, and when it let out a high-pitched tone, he didn’t expect the find to be anything special – a bottle top perhaps, or a rusty nail, or maybe even a lost earring. But no. The object Clarke unearthed was a heart-shaped pendant of enamelled gold.
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