Roman bronze helmet found in a field sells for £2.3 MILLION... eight times its estimated value
By Tamara Cohen
A rare Roman bronze helmet found in a field by a metal detecting enthusiast, sold for an astonishing £2.3 million at auction today. The immaculately preserved 2,000-year-old artefact, one of only three ever found in Britain, was discovered in a field by an unemployed graduate in his early 20s.