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A group of detectorists discovered a treasure trove of axes, sickles and other Bronze Age objects

A fortnight ago, the Provincial Office for the Protection of Monuments in Gorzów Wielkopolski received notification of the discovery of a Bronze Age treasure. The collection contained axes, bracelets, sickles and other bronze objects discovered by detectorists from the Drossen Lubuskie association with a search permit from the Lubuskie Heritage Office...

Detector discovery of a unique 4,000-year-old copper dagger in Poland

Last November, detectorist Piotr Gorlach discovered a beautifully preserved copper dagger from the 3rd millennium BC in a forest near Jaroslaw in southeastern Poland. It is the oldest dagger ever discovered in the Carpathian Voivodeship. According to archaeologists, copper objects were extremely rare in the area...

A tractor driver ploughed up two richly furnished tombs from the Roman period

A tractor driver discovered two Roman tombs with rich equipment in a field near Nova Varbovka, Bulgaria, while ploughing. Among other things, a rare bronze medallion of Emperor Caracalla. It is a double burial of an adult male and female, the second grave belonged to a small child. The grave furnishings date the burials to the first half of the third century.

Under the 14th century castle tower, they discovered a 900-year-old gold ring that is unparalleled

An extremely rare find was discovered at the Wawel Royal Castle in Kraków in the form of an early medieval gold ring from the 11th century with two opposing faces. Few gold rings from this period have been found in Poland so far, the "Wawel ring" is the first ever with an anthropomorphic depiction of...

A hunter discovers a treasure trove of iron weapons from the Roman period

A set of iron weapons from the Roman period was found in a forest near Hrubieszów, Poland, close to the border with Ukraine. At the beginning of January they were accidentally discovered by a forester Mateusz Filipowicz and his friends. They first noticed one heavily rusted object with a crust lying in the mud disturbed by heavy forestry equipment. When Mateusz pulled it out, more appeared underneath...

Detectorist discovers unique depot of broad bronze axes

A 3,500-year-old treasure trove of five rare Bronze Age axes has been discovered in the Starogard forest area of Kociewie, Poland. The collection is the first of its kind in Poland, surpassing previous individual finds in its extent and preservation.

Success of the Polish Detectorist Association: the medieval treasure of the Crusader denarii

A small but historically significant hoard of medieval coins has been discovered just 15 cm deep in the woods on a hillside outside the town of Iława in northern Poland. The discovery was made by the town's detector club when its members, during a joint club thirteen complete silver coins and their fragments, mostly cross denarii.

750 years old treasure of bractheat

In Szprotawa, Poland, a treasure trove of medieval bracket coins from the second half of the 13th century was discovered during a rescue archaeological research. These are the so-called broad Silesian brakteats, which were originally stacked "in rollers" and then put into a tightly tied linen bag.

A large Gothic cemetery from the Migration period discovered in Poland

A 4th and 5th century Gothic cemetery has been uncovered in Stara Rzeczyca on the site of the Wdecki protected landscape area in northern Poland. Fifty graves have been excavated so far, covering an area of about 250 m2, but it is estimated that the entire cemetery covers at least a hectare. Jewellery, brooches, amber and glass beads, pottery and everyday objects such as spindle whorls and bone combs have been discovered in the contents of pit and urn graves.

Detectorists in Romania discover medieval treasure of a Czech king

A coin hoard from the late 15th and early 16th centuries was discovered in the forest near Neuorid in western Romania during a joint detector operation. Raul Vlad Suta was the first to stumble upon the collection when he unearthed a small silver coin, followed by others.

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