<p><strong>The first week out with my E-TRAC, I came across a small bronze disc with glass enamelled to one side.</strong> It was so well made I thought it was off a Victorian snuff box and threw it in the garage with my other rubbish.</p> <p>Three months later whilst wandering in the Roman section of the British Museum in London I nearly fell over when I saw an exact copy of the disc in a display case.</p> [split] <p>It turns out that the disc was not a piece of scrap after all but a 1st century Roman millifiori mount which had been welded to a Roman officers uniform.</p> <p>The find was only 3” deep in the ground and was found next to the site of an old Roman road called “The Devils Causeway” in north Northumberland, England.</p> <p>It is only the 4th such find in the UK and is the only one found North of the Roman Wall (Hadrian’s Wall).</p> <p>The find was nominated for the nation’s greatest find and came in the top 6 of hundreds of entries.</p> <p>It was sold at Bonham’s in London for £8,150.</p> <p>So much for a piece of scrap.</p>