Suspended jail sentence for Lincolnshire detectorist who faked rare Roman horse brooch find

Comments Off

An amateur metal detectorist who falsely claimed to have dug up an 1,800 year old Roman horse brooch in a Lincolnshire field has been given a 12-month suspended jail sentence

Original Source .

January 8, 2026 | News Editor

Comments are closed.

Westwoodside
Westwoodside village
Westwoodside Westwoodside shown within Lincolnshire
OS grid reference	SK751996
- London	142 mi (229 km) SSE
Civil parish	Haxey
District	North Lincolnshire
Shire county	Lincolnshire
Region	East Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	DONCASTER
Postcode district	DN9
Police	Lincolnshire
Fire	Lincolnshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
EU Parliament	East Midlands
UK Parliament	Gainsborough (UK Parliament constituency)

Westwoodside is a small village in North Lincolnshire, England. It is situated within the Isle of Axholme and 7 miles (11 km) north-west from Gainsborough. Westwoodside is in the civil parish of Haxey, a village 1 mile (1.6 km) to the east.

The village has a primary school.

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article:
"Westwoodside",
which is released under:
Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Suspended jail sentence for Lincolnshire detectorist who faked rare Roman horse brooch find

westwoodside

Suspended jail sentence for Lincolnshire detectorist who faked rare Roman horse brooch find