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Detectorists discover the largest hoard of medieval gold and silver coins in 10 years

Over 600 silver and gold coins dating from the 14th century were discovered at a group detector event in Buckinghamshire three years ago in April. Experts say it is an exceptional find with extremely rare coins. The set was declared a treasure last week and estimated to be worth at least £4 million.

On Friday the 13th discovered an extremely rare gold pendant that is unparalleled

Charlie Clarke had only been detecting for six months when he came across the find of a lifetime: he was surveying a field in Warwickshire and picked up a strong, fairly deep signal. As soon as he dug his spade into the ground, he said, he squealed like a little schoolgirl: "My voice sounded really quite high," the laughing Birmingham café owner described the moment he found an early-Tudor pendant with the royal initials.

Detective discovers gold funeral ring; declared treasure

The well-preserved gold ring was discovered in a field near Walton-on-Trent using a metal detector by Mr John Startin-Taylor in 2021. He reported the find through PAS and it was officially classified as treasure by the coroner on Thursday 5 January. It is a mourning ring of the kind given to survivors. It dates from the late 17th century and belonged to a prominent sheriff and nobleman, a member of Parliament.

Went looking for Christmas and discovered a Roman gold earring that recategorises previous finds

Fifty-three-year-old detectorist Nick Bateman, from Burston in Norfolk, discovered a gold Roman earring in the shape of a double disc last Christmas Eve. It was declared a treasure last week and will be displayed in a museum. It changes the existing view of similarly made artefacts and places them from the early medieval to the earlier Roman period...

They found the treasure and could have gotten 82 million. Now they're in jail and still have to pay

George Powell and Layton Davies, who covered up the discovery of Viking treasure in Herefordshire four years ago, will have to pay heavily for their greed (and stupidity) once again. They were convicted of theft and concealing the find in 2019, for which they received prison sentences of 10 and 8.5 years respectively. Now a judge has ordered them to pay over £600,000 (about £16.5 million) each within three months or have another five years added to their sentences...

A beautiful gold necklace and other valuables in a rich Anglo-Saxon grave

During rescue research prior to the construction of a new housing estate in the English village of Harvpole, a a rare seventh-century bed grave with the richest grave goods of the period ever found. The assemblage included a beautiful Anglo-Saxon necklace of gold, garnets and semi-precious stones, Frankish vessels and a massive silver cross with human faces.

Historical artefacts worth millions of crowns have gone missing from repositories of reported finds

Valuable artifacts from the detector finds were moved to an unknown location for fear of looting. Precious treasures and parts of the surrendered files were lost from secure storage, apparently stolen by someone with access. It is feared that they have been sold to private collections in the USA.

Detectorists discover Scotland's largest medieval coin hoard

A huge collection of 700-year-old silver coins has been found in a field near the village of Dunscore in Dumfries using metal detectors. Archaeologists are talking about an absolutely amazing discovery. The hoard is now being catalogued by experts, and is likely to be worth hundreds of thousands of pounds...

He hid a Celtic chieftain's ring worth £30,000 in a cupboard

For almost thirty years, a collector hid a rare Celtic chieftain's ring in a cupboard, which was discovered in Yorkshire by a prospector with a metal detector. The jewel dates from around 100 BC. The collector is likely to come into a nice chunk of change. Experts say the jewel is worth around £30,000.

2 100 years old gold coins in beef bone

The Lynn Museum's new exhibit is an intriguing reminder of a 19-year-old discovery. Specifically, a trove of golden staters from the 1st century BC that were embedded in a hollowed-out bovine femur. They were found using a metal detector during an archaeological excavation of an early medieval burial site.

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