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The largest Upper Lusatian Bronze Age treasure was discovered 10 km from the border

The largest treasure of the Late Bronze Age in Upper Lusatia was discovered in Klein Neundorf near Zhořelec with the help of metal detectors. A total of 310 bronze objects from the 9th century BC with more than a hundred sickles, dozens of axes and a broken sword with a bone pommel is also the 2nd largest Bronze Age discovery in Saxony.

Cool detector find in Poland: medieval gold and silver coins in a ceramic vessel

A ceramic vessel full of denarii, groschen and ducats from the 15th century was discovered near the town of Bochnia in southern Poland. The treasure was found during a legal expedition by detectorists from an association with the characteristic name of Stater.

First time in the field and early medieval gold

It took Florida archaeology student Yara Souza just 90 minutes to discover gold from the 9th century on her very first archaeological dig. The artifact was unearthed in the same location where an amateur detectorist found another similar gold object from the same period four years ago.

One club, one location, three treasures. The last one contained a massive gold necklace

As we reported on LP recently, 3 different treasures from different periods were discovered in Poland within a few weeks just hundreds of meters from each other. Medieval, early medieval and Roman. All the finds were recorded by a single detectorist association. Now they know what the last jar contained: a beautiful gold necklace weighing 222 grams. It's the first of its kind found in Poland.

Unique 3 000 year old British bronze sickle

Archaeologists from the French Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (Inrap) recently discovered a beautifully preserved sickle from the Late Bronze Age. It is a sickle with an attachment; a very rare variant of British origin. It is evidence of the boom in trade and metalworking between the continent and the British Isles during the Atlantic Bronze Age.

Czechs reconstruct faces of women who worked hard in mines 6,000 years ago

Recently, three-dimensional reconstructions of the faces of two prehistoric nurses who worked in the harsh conditions of the horn mines in southern Moravia more than 6,000 years ago were presented to the public. The Krumlovský les mining site, which has been studied for decades by study co-author Martin Oliva, has thus acquired a completely new, human dimension.

A special treasure from the Thirty Years' War: three silver coins in a copper cauldron

During planned research at the site of future construction work on the Gotthardtkirchplatz church grounds in Brandenburg am Havel, three silver coins from the early 17th century were found inside a large copper cauldron.

Unprecedented detector find of 800 Iron Age objects rescued

The over 2,000-year-old Melsonby Hoard is ranked among the largest Iron Age discoveries in the UK. It was found by detectorist Peter Heads and expertly recovered by archaeologists from Durham University. It immediately became a sensation and a subject of interest worldwide. Now, thanks to public support and grants, it is part of a clamp in the Yorkshire Museum.

A detectorist in southern Moravia discovered unique armour from the Trojan War

Scientists from the Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with amateur detectorists, have made an extraordinary discovery: during research at a secret site in southern Moravia, they uncovered objects and a piece of bronze armour from 3,200 years ago. The discovery is quite exceptional in the European context; it is only the second such example on our territory.

A Nazi officer stole a 2,000-year-old Roman mosaic. It has now been returned

Eighty years on, a rare ancient mosaic stolen during the Second World War has returned to Pompeii. The beautiful, well-preserved artefact depicts an intimate scene between a man and a woman. It was stolen in 1944 by a German Wehrmacht officer, then serving as a supply officer in Italy.

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