As a millennium ticked slowly by, the spoils of bloody Viking raids lay buried and forgotten in a Scottish field.
People came and went, oblivious to the riches beneath their feet, until September 2014 when Derek McLennan literally struck gold with his metal detector.
The hoard of more than 100 ancient artefacts, unearthed on land owned by the Church of Scotland in Dumfries and Galloway, was hailed as the most significant discovery of Viking-age objects ever found in Britain or Ireland.
It brought McLennan, 55, instant fame and, later, a £2 million reward.
The story of how he beat the odds to discover the Galloway Hoard might have ended there but instead took a dark twist.
The Church of Scotland claims that McLennan reneged on
