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Detectorists repeatedly find Roman gold coins, more to come in the field

The 2,000-year-old treasure was deposited before the Roman invasion of Britain. The coins have been ploughed up and moved from their original site near Norwich over the centuries, and have been found repeatedly by various detectorists in recent years. They were the finest coins of their day, and were even made into jewellery. Today they are very rare...

A unique 2000-year-old shrine has been found in the Netherlands

Remains of a 1st-century Roman sanctuary have been discovered in Herwen-Hemeling in the eastern Netherlands. It is the first of its kind in the area of the Lower Germanic Limes, the former border of the Germanic provinces of the Roman Empire. With its preserved altars, structures, statues and sacrificial pits, it is the most complete sanctuary in the whole of the Netherlands...

Gold prospectors discover a mammoth cub, the first in North America and only the second in the world

A perfectly preserved baby mammoth, including soft tissue or fur, was discovered in the Yukon goldfields south of Dawson City in northwestern Canada. It is the first complete mammoth calf ever found in North America, and only the second in the world after the Siberian discovery in May 2007...

13,000 unique 3,000-year-old artifacts discovered in China

At the 7 km2 archaeological site in Sanxingdui, the excavation of sacrificial pits is underway, in which a joint team of archaeologists from the Institute for theSichuan Provincial Cultural Relics and Archaeology, Beijing and Sichuan Universities have uncovered nearly 13,000 amazing objects made of bronze, gold, jade and ivory. Many of the artefacts have no analogue in archaeology and are quite unique.

The mystery of the Iron Age frog mass grave

More than 8,000 frog skeletal remains have been discovered by archaeologists near Cambridge in the United Kingdom, lying in a 14-metre-long trench near a roundhouse in an Iron Age settlement. Frog bones are occasionally discovered individually at archaeological sites, but a mass frog "burial" is unprecedented.

A detective found a flaccid Roman phallus without testicles in the form of a pendant

This New Year's Eve in Higham, Kent, detectorist Wendy Thompson discovered a 1,800-year-old silver pendant of unusual design. It is the only pendant of its kind in the PAS database and experts define it as an item of national significance. It has now been declared a treasure...

Unique 2,800-year-old swords discovered in Germany prove the technological leap of the Hallstatt Age

In the Bavarian town of Andechs in the district of Starnberg, two extremely rare swords from the early Iron Age have been discovered. They date back to the 8th century BC and are an amazing testament to the development of weapons between the Bronze Age and the Iron Age. They are among the oldest iron swords ever discovered in southern Germany...

Ancient Roman Message from Hadrian's Wall: the 13th penis and a very personal insult

A stone carving of a penis with an inscription from the 3rd century was discovered at Hadrian's Wall. A soldier was also mocked in a way familiar to us today when someone from his neighbourhood took his name in an artistic representation of an insult.

Roman treasure from Como: 5 kg of gold including 1 000 gold coins in a soapstone cooking pot

A hoard of gold coins from the end of the Western Roman Empire, discovered in 2018 under an oldm theatre in Como, Italy, turned out to be even more significant than it first appeared. Not only in terms of the number of coins and the weight of the gold hoard, but also with regard to the time of its deposition.

Detectorist finds world's unique, 2,000-year-old Roman brooch in the shape of a horse

The so-called Leasingham horse-shaped copper alloy brooch is quite unique in the archaeological record. It was discovered with his metal detector by Mr Jason Price in a field near Leasingham in the summer of 2019. There is no other of its kind. Although it has not been declared a treasure, it has now been acquired for the collection of Lincoln Museum.

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