A rare gold coin, approximately 500 years old, was found by a woman in the garden of her home in Portsmouth, England. She borrowed the metal detector from her son when she was bored.
In Scotland, workers found a secret World War II bunker during a logging operation. Apparently, it was used by Churchill's Secret Service. It was known for its unconventional practices. When threatened with capture by the enemy, they committed suicide.
The British Museum announced on Tuesday that in 2019, citizens of England, Wales and Northern Ireland reported a record 1,311 finds that were defined as treasure. A total of 81,602 artefacts were reported and deposited in the PAS system last year - with more than 90% of the detector finds....
London's Victoria & Albert Museum has acquired a unique medieval gold brooch from a detectorist's find. The brooch is the only one of its kind ever found in the UK. There are only seven known to exist in the whole world.
A Bronze Age golden eyeball, discovered two years ago by an anonymous detectorist at an undisclosed location in Shropshire, has now been declared a treasure and sold to the British Museum. The significance of the find is reflected, among other things, in the price tag of over £7 million. Experts say it is the most significant Bronze Age find in England in a century...
An unusual-looking ring has been discovered by a metal detectorist in Buckinghamshire, south-east England. The jewel has two snake heads touching each other. It has already been declared a treasure by the coroner, although it is bent in various ways and no longer looks like a ring.
A set of 19 Iron Age gold coins was discovered last February near Blythburgh in Suffolk. They were found by a detectorist over an area of about 10 by 19 metres. Experts say it is a "truly unusual" find in the East Anglian region. The coins have now been declared a treasure trove and museums are racing to see which will acquire them for their collections...
Truck driver Sean Sandercock (38) found a rare gold coin with a metal detector Minelab Equinox 800. He discovered a sovereign from the reign of Henry VIII. Its value is estimated by experts at £2,000. For the finder, it is said to be the "holy grail" in hyperbole.
A staggering 750kg pile of coins from the 2012 discovery by detectorists Reg Mead and Richard Miles was recently recognised as a new world record for the number of coins in a single Iron Age assemblage. With a total of 69,347 Roman and Celtic coins, the depot surpassed the 42-year-old find of 54,951 coins in Wiltshire.
Hundreds of Czechoslovaks passed through the Royal Air Force (RAF). Thirty of them belonged to the 1st Fighter Squadron, which was disbanded in the autumn of 1926, but was re-established on 1 February the following year.