The nugget had to be broken into smaller pieces in order for its total weight to be calculated. The two men who discovered it were given just under £10,000, and the gold was melted down.

A gold nugget - claimed to be one of the biggest ever found in Britain - is reported to have been discovered in a Scottish river. The gold, dubbed the Douglas Nugget, weighs 85.7g, and has been ...

A detectorist has found a gold nugget that “looks like Britain” in a discovery he hailed as the “holy grail” of hand panning. Jonathan Needham, 54, discovered the gold on the Staffordshire ...