Most of the estimated 300 coins believed to last inwards the hoard are withal missing
BRITISH MUSEUM
Two metallic detectorists stole a £3m Viking hoard that experts nation has the potential to "rewrite history".
George Powell as well as Layton Davies dug upwardly most 300 coins inwards a champaign inwards Eye, close Leominster, Herefordshire, inwards 2015.
They did non declare the 1,100-year-old find, said to last i of the biggest to date, as well as instead sold it to dealers.
They were convicted of theft as well as concealing their find. Coin sellers Simon Wicks as well as Paul Wells were every bit good convicted on the concealment charge.
The hoard included a ninth Century gilded ring, a dragon's caput bracelet, a argent ingot as well as a crystal stone pendant. Just 31 coins - worth betwixt £10,000 as well as £50,000 - as well as about pieces of jewellery bring been recovered, exactly the bulk is withal missing.
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