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Dozens of treasures found in gardens during coronavirus clampdown

England's "Lockdown" during the coronacrisis forced hundreds of thousands of Britons to adjust their interests and hobbies to enjoy them at home. For treasure hunters, it meant an opportunity to do a really honest search of their own back gardens. The result is many amazing reported treasures...

Archaeologists find unique medieval mould for making jewellery and medallions

A rescue archaeological excavation in Chur, Switzerland, in the canton of Graubünden has yielded the discovery of a rarestone jewellery mould and other evidence of the busy medieval craftsmanship there. The mould was used for the production of jewellery and religious objects; it is an extremely rare find, the first of its kind in the canton. In the whole of Switzerland, only a few similar moulds have been discovered in Bern, Basel and Winterthur.

Norwegian student uses metal detector to find evidence of unknown Viking marketplace

A fifty-three-year-old archaeology student at the University of Tromsø has discovered evidence of a previously unknown Viking trading centre in the village of Sandtorg in northern Norway. Using a metal detector, Tor-Ketil Krokmyrdal found silver currency, pins, jewellery and a large number of iron and other artefacts.

Remains of an Aztec palace and ruins of Hernán Cortés' house found in Mexico City

Archaeologists from the National Institute for Anthropology and History (INAH) found a charity pawnshop from the second half of the 18th century under the northern part of the building. pre-Hispanic basalt floor slabs dating from the reign of the ruler Axayácatl (1469-1481) and the remains of Cortés' 1521 mansion in Tenochtitlán.

Thousand-year-old walls change previous assumptions about Poland's first capital

In Poznan, Poland, archaeologists have discovered part of a defensive wall from the late 10th century. A rescue survey prior to the construction of a new apartment building uncovered a massive stone and wooden wall seven metres below the current ground level. The new discovery is likely to rewrite the history of Poland.

Roman coins, jewellery and other items found at racecourse in England

Chelmsford City Racecourse management have asked the local Braintree Metal Detecting Club if they could help them open a new racecourse. This is because one of the last layers of the racecourse was made of local soil and the detectorists were tasked with clearing it of any sharp metal objects that could potentially injure the racehorses...

Husband and wife find a treasure; they get 1.3 million crowns as a reward

A young couple from the Slovak Liptov region found a cup with silver and gold coins from the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries in the soil near the village of Likavka, which was disturbed by wild boars at the beginning of last year. The Slovak RTVS station reported this week on the experts' findings and the amount of the reward.

She inherited a detector and found two Anglo-Saxon objects worth half a million

Fifty-four-year-old Mel Hollwoger had the great fortune of startingwoman when she inherited a metal detector and within the first three months found two very rare Anglo-Saxon artefacts near her home in Aldborough, Norfolk.

In the grounds of a 14th-century Polish castle, detectorists discovered a Jewish treasure from World War II

A depot of silver artefacts hidden in the period around the Second World War was discovered in the ruins of a castle in Nowy Sącz in southern Poland. Detectorists from a local association were searching for possible second-war munitions near the castle tower when a representative of the association reported a very strong signal. At first, he thought he had just come across a rusty piece of metal. But after removing it, he found a silver treasure in perfect condition...

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