A hoard of 18 Iron Age gold coins discovered in a field by a metal detecting history professor has sold for £33,200 at ...

I began history hunting when I was four years old, and it all started from watching Indiana Jones. I used to go fossil hunting, searching my family's farm for relics. Of course, the relics I found ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Dubnovellaunos stater is one of the more special finds of the hoard [Noonans] A history professor with a passion for metal ...

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 pastime in a farmer’s field led to the discovery of Norman-era coins valued at more than $5 million. By Ali Watkins The group huddled together in the farmer’s field, staring at the dozen or so ...

Steve Hickman, 59, bought a second hand metal detector from eBay after watching the hit TV show starring Mackenzie Crook and Toby Jones. He secured a 'permission' to search farmland near his home in ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - One of the largest hoards of Roman coins ever found in Britain has been unearthed in a field in Somerset, southwest England, by an amateur treasure hunter with a metal ...

Licence, a professor of medieval history and literature at the university in Norwich, found the hoard in the autumn of 2024. Among the find were 16 coins known as staters and one quarter-stater. The ...