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Neutron technology finds bones and textiles inside medieval reliquary

A very rare enamel pendant used as a relic box was discovered in a medieval waste pit in the Old Town of Mainz. Attempting to open it threatened irreversible damage. Experts therefore used neutron tomography to examine the contents of the box non-destructively and preserve its integrity for future generations.

Archaeology from the sky

The exhibition Archaeology from the Sky in the Anthropos Pavilion of the Moravian Museum will take you to unearthly heights from which you can see what is normally invisible: traces of the life of our ancestors long hidden underground or in the relief of the terrain.

Gold ring with diamond from 1388

A gold medieval ring discovered inThorncombe (south-west England) by prospector David Board, three months after he bought a new metal detector. The jewel was on sale for nearly £40,000.

Metal Detector Instructions Minelab Manticore

Thanks to Roman, the tutorial is ready literally in record time.

Return to the prehistoric times - Troy X5 Shadow

There are few detectors as iconic as the Troy X5 Shadow.

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...

The 40 most read articles on LP in 2022

It is the end of the year and so it is also time for a recap. In this post you will find the 40 most read articles about finds, searches and archaeology in 2022.

Overview of all competitions on LP 2022

As in previous years, we again competed on LP for the most beautiful finds in many categories. And also, after a two-year covid hiatus, the Master Searcher Detector Championship was held. See the post for a full list of all the 2022 events.

Pour Féliciter 2023 and Christmas opening hours

We would like to wish you all a peaceful Christmas and the best possible year 2023.