A period falsum of a gold Islamic dinar in the form of a pendant was found near Morston in Norfolk using a metal detector. The unique replica is believed to have come from a Viking workshop. The pendant has now been declared a treasure by the coroner and offered to museums for purchase.
The unprecedented discovery of a bronze figurine of a man with a disproportionately large 'tipping' penis was made at a mass detector event by Paul Shepheard in Haconby, Lincolnshire. The pendant dates from the 1st century AD and is the only example of its kind from the Iron Age.
The former royal palace of Hampton Court displayed a gold, enamelled Tudor seal ring, a favouritecourtiers and relatives of one of England's most famous queens, Anne Boleyn, wife of Henry VIII. and mother of Queen Elizabeth I.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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...
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.
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.