A metal detectorist was celebrating today after a 2,000-year-old brooch he unearthed sold for £55,000 at auction. Van driver Ray Pusey, 64, discovered the Celtic Chieftain’s chariot brooch in a field last year and was initially given a guide price of £7000.
But a bidding war saw the "outstandingly rare" object sell for more than seven times its estimate. Ray said: "I watched the auction online and wondered if the brooch would just make its reserve, do quite well or do exceptionally well. "I was really pleased.
It was an exceptional result and so exciting to watch. "The money will be split 50/50 split with the landowner and, when I went round to tell him, he nearly fell over. "Me and my wife are having a Chinese to celebrate tonight.” Ray,
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