Two metal detectorists covered up their discovery of a £3million ($6m) hoard of coins and jewellery in a plot to pocket the proceeds, a British court heard this week.
Jurors at Worcester Crown Court heard George Powell, 38, and Layton Davies, 51, unearthed the Anglo-Saxon treasure on a farm four years ago, reports The Daily Mail.
They should have declared the haul of 300 coins, gold jewellery and silver ingots to the local coroner, but prosecutor Kevin Hegarty QC said the pair decided to "treat [it] as their own... in short, they stole it".
The barrister said the hoard was estimated to have been hidden in the ground more than 1100 years ago and came from two separate areas of England.
Hegarty told the court: "Some were from the time of King Alfred who at that stage in 880 was King of Wessex. Others are from the rule of a king you may not have heard of - Ceolwulf II of Mercia."