In Iron-Age Britain, communities regularly placed metalwork in rivers and bogs to mark significant life events, including death. The Thames has yielded deliberately deposited human skulls ...

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 ...

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 ...

In iron-age Britain, communities regularly placed metalwork in rivers and bogs to mark significant life events, including death. The Thames has yielded deliberately deposited human skulls alongside ...

A massive Iron Age hoard with more than 800 pieces was discovered in northern England. Screengrab from Durham University's Facebook post In the fields of North Yorkshire, England, a man with 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 ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A metal detector hobbyist’s find has yielded one of the UK’s largest and most expansive troves of Iron Age artifacts. After ...

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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 ...

A huge Iron Age hoard discovered in a Yorkshire field by a metal detectorist could lead to a revaluation of the wealth and status of the elite living in northern Britain 2,000 years ago, an ...

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 ...