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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Susie Beever

Golf ball-sized pure gold nugget is 'biggest ever found in UK waters'

It was hailed at the time as the largest chunk of gold found on British soil.

The 85.7g nugget was discovered by a man in Scotland four years ago this week while lying face down in a river in a process known as "sniping", where people use snorkels to search riverbeds.

The plucky diver to find the lump of gold - which has been dubbed the "Douglas Nugget" - has never revealed their identity and only came forward to disclose the treasure two years on.

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