The Staffordshire Hoard paid a jobless detectorist and a farmer £3.285 million between them, and the farmer banned him from his land

In 2009 Terry Herbert, an unemployed metal detectorist, searched farmer Fred Johnson's field near Brownhills, Staffordshire, with an 18-year-old detector. He filled 244 bags, including more than 11 pounds of gold objects. It was the largest Anglo-Saxon gold hoard ever found. In November 2009 the independent Treasure Valuation Committee, meeting at the British Museum, valued the hoard at £3.285 million. Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and the Potteries Museum in Stoke-on-Trent set out to buy it jointly. Under the Treasure Act the reward was split equally between finder and landowner. Each was paid at the end of 2009. By 2011 they were not speaking. Johnson called Herbert greedy, said he wished he had never met him and said, "I never want to see that fellow on my land ever again." Herbert said Johnson "wanted all of the money" and resented sharing it. "Sometimes I wish I'd never found that hoard," he said. Johnson built a new house on his farm. Herbert moved from a council flat in Burntwood to a bungalow nearby. The money came from the two museums' purchase.