A mum who always hoped of finding treasure has had her dream realised - after she dug up a hoard of ancient coins. Jennie Fitzgerald, 38, spotted the domed lid of a wooden chest poking out of the sand as she picked up litter on a beach in Norfolk earlier this month.
She used her hands to dig down and hauled out the padlocked prize, which was about the size of a shoe box. Jennie, who is mum to Harrison, nine, and Darcey, six, then lugged the chest a mile-and-a-half back along the coast to meet her IT consultant husband James, 40.
Back at their caravan in Sea Palling, the family pulled off the wood from the bottom of the box - and discovered 108 coins inside. Jennie, from Norwich, who says she is "buzzing", thinks they are mainly Victorian pennies, and a few medieval groats.
