Boy Finds £2.5M Gold Locket With Metal Detector

Instead of bottle caps and ridicule from his peers, 3-year-old James Hyatt found a locket worth millions with his metal detector. James and his dad found the gold locket last May in Essex. Since then the 500-year-old treasure has been appraised at around £2.5million. From the article: "James’s father Jason, 34, said: ‘My son is one of the luckiest people ever. If we go to the doctors he’ll put his hand down the side of the sofa and pull out a tenner.’"

Lucky

[Squiddie]

I wish I had found stuff like this with my metal detector. Instead I was always that weird kid with the metal detector.

IASPAR

[digitaldc]

"James was so excited when he realised he had found real treasure. Dad was blown away."

Right after that, James and his dad joined together in a happy little jig and sung "I've got a golden locket!" over and over and over...

Re:Treasure Act of 1996

[Joe Snipe]

I like how you brits make your laws rhyme:

(1)When treasure is found it vests;
subject to prior rights and interests --

(a)if there is one in the franchisee,

(b)otherwise, to her Majesty!.

Re:For the rest of his life...

[spiffmastercow]

He's only going to live to be 6?

Re:I'm lucky too!

[Anonymous Coward]

When I go to the doctor's I put my hands down my pants and pull out a tenner too!

10cm~=3.94in. I'm sure the nurses are impressed.

Re:Lucky

[robot256]

If you found a buried metal detector with a metal detector...would the universe implode?

No...but then he'd have one for each hand! Double the nerdiness!

Re:Treasure Act of 1996

[Sonny Yatsen]

And the boy will also live in the forest with a band of merry toddlers who may accost the rich and give to the poor.

Re:Lucky

[loom_weaver]

I was the lucky kid to purchase my first metal detector, a basic Micronta version, from Radio Shack back in grade 6.

As I proudly searched the sand by the monkey bars I was the star of the playground pack. After several minutes of searching we hit the jackpot--we found a penny woohoo! Then two seconds later, another kid on the other side of the sandbox looked down and exclaimed, 'Hey look, I found a nickel!'.

Bah.

Rotary engraving?

[Teun]

When looking carefully at the photo I would say some of the larger elements of the flowers left and right of the cross seem to have been made with a rotary engraving tool, not necessarily a tool I'd associate with 500 years ago...