A Bronze Age golden eyeball, discovered two years ago by an anonymous detectorist at an undisclosed location in Shropshire, has now been declared a treasure and sold to the British Museum. The significance of the find is reflected, among other things, in the price tag of over £7 million. Experts say it is the most significant Bronze Age find in England in a century...
The richly furnished unique tomb of a pre-Romanesque prince may have been irrevocably destroyed - a new sports complex was planned to be built on the site. However, the plans were scuppered literally at the last minute by aerial and then geophysical surveys.
A set of 19 Iron Age gold coins was discovered last February near Blythburgh in Suffolk. They were found by a detectorist over an area of about 10 by 19 metres. Experts say it is a "truly unusual" find in the East Anglian region. The coins have now been declared a treasure trove and museums are racing to see which will acquire them for their collections...
A staggering 750kg pile of coins from the 2012 discovery by detectorists Reg Mead and Richard Miles was recently recognised as a new world record for the number of coins in a single Iron Age assemblage. With a total of 69,347 Roman and Celtic coins, the depot surpassed the 42-year-old find of 54,951 coins in Wiltshire.
Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities last Thursday announced what is reportedly one of the most significant archaeological discoveries of recent years: The tombs of the high priests - worshippers of the god Thoth, their families and top officials from three dynasties.
Four richly furnished graves found in the middle of the medieval cemetery of the village of Ciepłe in eastern Poland contained the remains of Scandinavian men with complete armour. The furnishings and type of graves differed from all the others. The warriors have therefore raised many questions among archaeologists and historians, including who they were, why they are buried here and where they came from. The last question has only recently been answered by DNA analysis.
The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) has completed 20 years since its inception. The results include. A publicly accessible database of recovered artefacts, new archaeological sites and finds, which to date numbers nearly 1.5 million objects, a terrifyingtens of thousands of collaborating archaeologists across the country, hundreds of participating museums and institutions, and hundreds of thousands of collaborating members of the public, including tens of thousands of children.
A collection of 3,990 "coins" from the period between 1200 and 1500 has been returned to Mexico. The pre-Columbian money belonged to an American private collector who acquired it at a Texas coin fair in the 1960s...
This February, an extremely valuable discovery of Bronze Age artefacts was made in Kallerup, Denmark, using a metal detector. The discovery was made by a volunteer worker at the county museum's archaeological ..