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 ...

British Museum hails record-breaking year for archaeological discoveries – thanks largely to metal detectorists ...

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 ...

A hoard of 179 silver pennies, likely buried on the eve of the Battle of Hastings in 1066, and a rare Roman vehicle fitting ...

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

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 ...

A remarkable discovery of 2,584 silver coins, dating from the turbulent period of the Norman Conquest of England, has become the most valuable treasure find ever in British history. Unearthed in 2019 ...

Five years after emerging from the grounds of Chelmsford, the U.K.’s largest recorded hoard of ancient gold coins has found a new home. Unearthed by a metal detectorist, the Great Baddow Hoard (named ...

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 ...