Discovered by a group of friends five years ago, an unprecedented hoard of 11th-century coins, valued at $5.58 million, will soon to be on display at The British Museum in London. On Tuesday, the ...

An amateur metal detectorist in Northern England has discovered an "unusual" 2,000-year-old hoard of artifacts that was burned and then buried. The Iron Age finding, named the Melsonby Hoard after the ...

It began, as many great discoveries do, with a metal detectorist and a lucky beep. In December 2021, Peter Heads stumbled upon what would turn out to be one of the largest and most significant Iron ...

Two metal detectorists stumbled across a cache of coins dating back to Biblical times in a one-of-a-kind discovery, according to European officials. The Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands ...

In January 2019, Adam Staples and his then-partner Lisa Grace traveled to Chew Valley in Somerset, the U.K., to help a friend test their new metal detector. Walking across an unassuming field, it didn ...

Builders were stunned when they stumbled across one of the largest hoards of Roman coins ever found in Britain — worth more than £100,000 (about $126,000). A total of 1,368 Iron Age and Roman coins ...

A massive Iron Age hoard with more than 800 pieces was discovered in northern England. Screengrab from Durham University's Facebook post In the fields of North Yorkshire, England, a man with a metal ...

Most finds are made by detectorists, building a richer picture of the past, says the British Museum.