A group of metal detectorists uncovered an extraordinary hoard of 2,584 ancient coins in a Somerset field valued at £4.3million. The 11th-century coin trove, known as the Chew Valley Hoard, is now ...

A group of amateur archaeologists in Denmark found a Viking silver hoard. The loot of 300 items includes ancient coins, silver balls, and a ring pin. The people who discovered the trove were on a ...

A private metal detectorist searching in a forest near Borsum, Lower Saxony, uncovered one of the most significant Roman-era ...

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 ...

A hoard of hundreds of Roman-era silver coins and precious metals was recovered in northern Germany, years after it went ...

A keen metal detectorist has hit the jackpot of an ancient Roman coin hoard - 20 years after he first took up his hobby. Steve Dean, along with friends Glenn Church and Ed Denovan, discovered the ...

A hoard of Viking Age treasure dated to around 1,000 years ago has been discovered by metal detectorists. John Crowe and David O'Hare uncovered the hoard in May this year while metal detecting on the ...

Newcastle University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. There is clearly giddy excitement in the shaky footage showing hands scrabbling in the soil in the Chew Valley in south-west ...

A group of archaeologists has uncovered a large trove of coins in the Świętokrzyskie Mountains in south-central Poland. The gold and silver relics date to the 17th and 18th centuries, and more ...