Largest ever nugget found under English soil

So a cancelled trip to Oz but comes up trumps in the UK.

Could not make it up!!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/othe...r-nugget-found-under-english-soil/ar-BB1keZU7


regards

John

If it realises AUD1000/gram at auction my gold and I are emigrating

Something of this story needs explanation.
Shropshire is on the English/Welsh border and there are many gold mines in Wales and nuggets in the size range of this one have been found there in recent times. Over the long period of history many more would have been found. It is conceivable that a Welsh nugget may have been lost by a traveller from Wales to England.
The value of gold was known in Europe from a very early age so it is probably less conceivable that even a prehistoric human may have abandoned it as appeared to have happened with the Boort nugget in Victoria. That nugget was found in an old aboriginal campsite quite a distance the nearest gold field Wedderburn.
Other explanations are that the nugget was transported by glaciers or that Shropshire does hide an unknown goldfield.
A final explanation could be a fraudulent plant to achieve value from its sale by claiming it to be the largest gold nugget found under English soil. A Welsh nugget of just 30g, named the Prince of Wales nugget found and authenticated a few years back sold for 20000 POUNDS at auction because of its rarity.
The fact that the prospector was late to go with the group and found the nugget without any genuine witnesses sounds a bit suss.
These days detailed compositional analysis can generally determine the source of gold, and if any buyer were to want to pay the sorts of prices being bandied around, they would be wise to have that done.

Hawkear,

If the gold object were in a form of say a bracelet, then it could have been claimed by the UK Government and the finder gets nothing.

In the form of nugget, it has no “Aesthetic” value and the finder gets it all (or at least 50% depending on the agreement with the land owner)

So melting down an Aesthetic object might be of value.

So could start conspiracy theory…

Regards

John

A little infor for you.
I'm actualy from Wales. There were a few gold mimes not as substantial as ozzy mines. Clogau gold mine was once the largest and richest. They do think they might have come across a new deep lead and are investigating. Wether it's to do with this recent nugget we don't know. Clogau welsh gold is still used to make all the royal wedding bands still from the same chunk they found many years ago. As for finding gold and items from the bronze age etc. You have to let the museum curators value said items. If they are found to be of value and very old they pay you a finders fee. One gent found some gold broches from the bronze age and was paid £100,000 pounds. Some keep there finds secret.

It could be from Australia , a gold digger has returned home and lost it . It can be tested and proven were it has come from . Gold's DNA !!!

Did read that some gold nuggets had been found in central Victoria , in the Mallee area . The experts of the day , thought that natives had been carrying them but had left them behind . Too heavy or lost ???

What size was it?

Rockwall said:

What size was it?

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65 grams, just over 2 ounces

And who is auctioning the Nugget... Why Mullock Jones, the auctioneer of cause ... what an appropriate name for the task