A Metal Detectorist Went Digging for Fun—and Discovered a 2,000-Year-Old Trove of Ancient Artifacts
A metal detectorist named Peter Heads discovered an “exceptional” Iron Age hoard outside of Melsonby, North Yorkshire, UK.
The Spectator Australia2h
The significance of the Melsonby hoard
When the discovery of a new Iron Age hoard was announced this week, a video was released showing a long table laid out with ...
Metal detectorist unwittingly discovers strange hoard of hundreds of ancient objects: 'Rarely seen'
British archaeologists recently uncovered a remarkable collection of two-millennia-old artifacts dating back to the Iron Age, ...
Bournemouth University1d
Face to face with the past: BU student recreates face of Iron Age Dorset woman
Kimmeridge Woman is one of several individuals from the late Iron Age and Roman periods whose burials have been uncovered in Dorset. It is likely that she lived during a period of great social change, ...
Nescot dog remains provide insight into Romano-British ritual practices
A recent study by Dr. Ellen Green, published in the International Journal of Paleopathology, analyzed the faunal assemblage ...
I made a £254,000 discovery but couldn’t tell anyone for four years
Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...
Londonist3d
What Was In London *Before* London?
Iron Age Britain was a tribal place ... as well as pottery and coins. It’s all built over now. If I owned any of the houses between Victoria Road and Wingate Road in Ilford, I’d be digging ...
'Exceptional' hoard of 800 Iron Age artifacts found mysteriously burned and buried in UK field
An Iron Age hoard discovered in England is on a "kind of scale and size that is exceptional for Britain and probably even ...
ZME Science on MSN3d
Metal detectorist finds 800 ancient artifacts buried in northern England that could rewrite Iron Age Britain
Hundreds of ancient chariot pieces and ceremonial weapons were found buried in Yorkshire it's challenging everything we know ...
CNN4d
‘Exceptional’ Iron Age hoard unlocks secrets of life in Britain 2,000 years ago
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 ...