A birdwatcher has stumbled across a hoard of 2,000-year-old Celtic gold coins worth £800,000 that date back to the time Boudicca was at war with the Romans.

The keen metal detectorist, who has not been named, spotted a glint of gold while looking at a buzzard in a recently ploughed field in eastern England.

Having rubbed off the mud to reveal a 2,000-year-old gold stater coin, he dashed home to pick up his metal detector and returned to carry on searching.

After digging down around 18ins, he recovered what looked to be a copper bangle, but was in fact the rim of what would have been a jug or urn that housed the coins.

He said: 'Gently lifting it up a cascade of coins fell out, a vision which will remain with me for the rest of my life.

'I had to sit down to get my breath back. I had only come out for a walk and found a Celtic hoard.'

At that moment a friendly dog walker using a public footpath next to the field shouted at to him in jest, 'have you found gold yet?'

The finder said: 'I thought, "if only you knew".

After several hours, and to his utter disbelief, he unearthed about 1,300 coins, all dating to circa 40-50AD.

Experts believe each coin could be worth up to £650, putting the value of the hoard at £845,000.

It comfortably surpasses the previous record Celtic hoard of 850 coins found at Wickham Market, Suffolk, by another detectorist in 2008.

The hoard is currently going through the treasure process in accordance with the Treasure Act 1996.

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