Builders find hidden treasure chest filled with gold worth £7.5million while doing renovation work in a cellar

Workers renovating a cellar in a building in Belgium have stumbled on a hidden treasure of gold worth an estimated £7.5million.  The hoard was found as a firm worked on a former brewhouse in the town of Sint-Gillis-Dendermonde, about a 40-minute drive from Brussels, on Tuesday morning.  The stash was hidden in a wall and contained gold bars, gold nuggets and a mountain of coins.  It was unclear exactly how the treasure hoard was stored, with some reports describing a 'chest', while others saying it was wrapped in plastic.   An 18-year-old student worker called Kobe found the stash as he and a colleague were working on sewage piping at around 8.15am.  While excavating the wall, he initially came across the coins which he believed were just ordinary €1 coins. But upon finding the nuggets and bars, he realised he had stumbled upon something major.  Upon finding the stash the contractors immediately called the client, a charity called CAW Oost-Vlaanderen, as well as the police.  The stash has since been moved to a high-security vault belonging to the Belgian government.   Police are now investigating the source of the treasure, as it is unclear how it ended up in the building. Many of the gold bars appear to have been stamped around 1957 and 1961.