By
Dalya Alberge
Last updated at 11:18 PM on 24th June 2009
After seven years of combing fields and beaches with a metal detector, the only thing housewife Mary Hannaby had to show for her hobby was an old dental plate.
But all those efforts paid off when her first proper find turned out to be a 15th-century gold treasure valued at £250,000 or more.
The find is thought to be part of a high-quality reliquary or pendant, and depicts the Holy Trinity.
Mrs Hannaby, 57, from Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, heard her metal detector's tell-tale beep while out on one of her regular six-hour Sunday detecting walks with her son, woodcarver Michael, 33.
For 500 years, the treasure had lain buried four inches below the ground, despite repeated ploughing.
Under the Treasure Act of 1996, finders must report potential treasure such as gold and silver objects more than 300 years old.
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