A metal detectorist named Peter Heads discovered an “exceptional” Iron Age hoard outside of Melsonby, North Yorkshire, UK.

The Melsonby Hoard, which lay untouched in two ditches near the North Yorkshire village of that name since the middle of the ...

The European Iron Age began around 800 BC and ran until the Roman conquest, which was the year AD 43 in Britain. Most people lived on farms or in small villages in homes called roundhouses ...

Hundreds of ancient chariot pieces and ceremonial weapons were found buried in Yorkshire it's challenging everything we know ...

An Iron Age hoard discovered in England is on a "kind of scale and size that is exceptional for Britain and probably even ...

A hoard of Iron Age artifacts discovered by a metal detectorist could alter our understanding of life in Britain 2,000 years ago, researchers have said. Now known as the Melsonby Hoard ...

A remarkable Iron Age hoard, unearthed in a Yorkshire field, is prompting archaeologists to reassess the wealth and power dynamics of northern Britain two millennia ago. The discovery, dubbed the ...

In an announcement, the university described the findings as being "one of the largest and most important Iron Age finds in the ... size that is exceptional for Britain and probably even Europe ...

The location is significant, close to the site of a hoard of Iron Age bronze found in the 1840s, which is now in the British Museum. That hoard, which also included a wealth of horse harnesses ...