Most of the estimated 300 coins believed to survive inwards the hoard are even as well as then missing
BRITISH MUSEUM
Two metallic detectorists stole a £3m Viking hoard that experts country has the potential to "rewrite history".
George Powell as well as Layton Davies dug upward almost 300 coins inwards a plain inwards Eye, close Leominster, Herefordshire, inwards 2015.
They did non declare the 1,100-year-old find, said to survive 1 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 equally good convicted on the concealment charge.
The hoard included a ninth Century aureate 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 or as well as then pieces of jewellery convey been recovered, simply the bulk is even as well as then missing.
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