A "once-in-a-lifetime" hoard of Iron Age artefacts has been uncovered by archaeologists. Dubbed the Melsonby hoard, more than 800 items were discovered by metal detectorist Peter Heads in 2021 in ...

That's the conclusion archaeologists drew from a cache of more than 800 Iron Age artifacts from northeast England dating back about 2,000 years. Found in a field near Melsonby, North Yorkshire ...

The site is also close to the huge Iron Age hill fort known as Stanwick Camp, which produced spectacular finds when it was excavated in the 1950s by Mortimer Wheeler. Sophia Adams, the curator of ...

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 ...

The Melsonby hoard is a remarkable collection of more than 800 Iron-Age metal artifacts, which was found in a field near Melsonby, North Yorkshire, in December 2021. Its discovery represents a ...

Experts say the hoard is one of the largest and most significant Iron Age finds in all of the United Kingdom—and it has the potential to reshape historians’ understanding of wealth ...

One of the largest and most significant Iron Age hoards ever discovered in the UK has been unveiled. It will likely reshape our understanding of life in Britain 2,000 years ago. It began ...

A small village in rural North Yorkshire has become the site of one of the largest and most important Iron Age finds in the UK ... Darlington and Barnard Castle. It provides an archaeological ...