One of the largest gold neckpieces from the Bronze Age, worth CZK 6.4 million, was stolen. On Tuesday 7. May 7, thieves broke into the Ely Museum in the early hours of the morning and purposely stole two meatIn addition to the necklace, there was also a heavy gold bracelet from the Bronze Age. Experts fear that the objects will be melted down and their cultural and historical value will disappear forever...
Five years ago, Robert and Betty Fooks fulfilled a dream when they bought a 17th century farmhouse in South Poorton, Dorset. The dream soon turned into a fairytale reality when, while digging up an old floor, they discovered over 1,000 gold and silver coins from the English Civil War, worth just under two million crowns...
When Alan Baxter found a massive 13th-century silver and gilt medieval ring in a farmer's field in Fife, Scotland, he knew there might be other ancient artefacts nearby. However, the hard and tall stubble from the thick oat crop each year made it impossible to search, so the farmer had to wait four years before planting and harvesting carrots...
Two years ago, in a field near Pagham in West Sussex, then 11-year-old Rowan Brannan discovered a rare 1st century Roman gold bracelet. It is an ornate armilla-type bracelet, awarded to Roman soldiers for valour. It has now been declared a treasure...
So-called "magnet fishing" - fishing for ferromagnetic objects from rivers, streams, lakes and ponds is generally an interesting activity, where you can sometimes catch a nice piece of history. But rarely something as old as Trevor Penny, who pulled a complete 9th century Viking sword from the River Cherwell near Enslow in West Oxfordshire.
The British Museum has recently published its latest annual report on the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS), a programme for recording archaeological finds for the public. It shows that 53,490 archaeological finds were reported in 2022, including 1,378 defined treasures, the highest number ever recorded in a single year...
Amateur detectorist Jonathan Needham from Staffordshire has discovered a remarkable 3,000-year-old gold pin dating back to the Late Bronze Age. It was used to fasten a dress or cloak and must have belonged to a high-ranking person. Experts say it is the best-preserved pin of its type ever discovered in Britain and only the seventh overall...
The British Museum's latest PAS Annual Report states that for 2022, the most treasures have been reported since the Portable Antiquities Scheme was launched. A total of 53,000 archaeological finds were reported and of these, 1,378 cases met the definition of treasure, including a very interesting hoard of gold Celtic staters in a flint 'box'...
In the small village of Norton Disney, Lincolnshire, a very rare Roman twelve-pointed stone has been found. Only about 130 of these copper alloy examples have been discovered in Europe, ironically only in the provinces, never in Rome itself. In England it is only the thirty-third twelve-walled stone, none having been discovered in its original context until now.
In December, a collection of 73 Roman coins was auctioned, including an extremely rare coin with a phoenix on a globe. The entire set was discovered by an anonymous detectorist while legally searching farmland in Norfolk. The auction fetched over £15,000, or about 427,000 crowns.