A Celtic choker which was discovered in a Lincolnshire field has been sold to a district council.
Tree surgeon Maurice Richardson, from Newark, found the 2,000-year-old torc in a field on the Lincolnshire- Nottinghamshire border last year after scouring the area with a metal detector.
The piece of jewellery, which is thought to be one of only two such artefacts in Britain today, has now been bought by Newark and Sherwood District Council to be put on display.
The choker has been bought for £350,000 - £285,000 of which the council raised through a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.
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