Mr Brock said: “I have been detecting since 1989 and decided to join the trip as a similar previous one to Australia was cancelled during the pandemic.
“So I drove three-and-a-half hours to Shropshire and I actually arrived about an hour late, thinking I’d missed the action.
“At first, I just found a few rusty old tent pegs with this back-up detector that had a fading screen display.
“But after only 20 minutes of scanning the ground I found this nugget buried about five or six inches down in the ground.
“I was, perhaps, a bit too honest and started showing people, and then all of a sudden I had swarms of other detectorists scanning the same area.
He added: “The machine I was using was pretty much kaput. It was only half working. It just goes to show that it doesn’t really matter what equipment you use.
“If you are walking over the find and are alert enough to what might be lurking underneath the soil, that makes all the difference.”
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