‘I nearly fainted with excitement’: Priceless 800-year-old silver and gold cross unearthed by Welsh detectorist. Malcolm Corfield found the precious medieval artefact buried 8in deep in the ground. Malcolm Corfield, 63, nearly fainted with excitement when he found the priceless artefact. The delighted detectorist had been using his XP Deus metal detector when he unearthed…
Treasure hunters have discovered a hoard of Spanish gold coins from the 18th century that are worth around £2.9m. The 350 coins have lied scattered on the Atlantic sea bed off the coast of Florida for the past 300 years. The coins originate from a fleet of 11 Spanish galleons that sank during a…
Leominster Roman coin hoard unearthed by a pair of Herefordshire metal detectorists. The British Museum has revealed a hoard of more than 500 Roman coins was found by two metal detector enthusiasts in a Herefordshire field. The 518 mixed copper coins, found near Leominster, had been placed in cloth bags and hidden in the ground…
A couple of holidaymakers found a Bronze Age knife thought to be 3,000 years old on the Isle of Wight. Metal detectorist Christopher Preece, with his wife June, found a number of small metallic objects under a lump of clay on Sandown Beach. The couple, from Banbury, Oxfordshire, took the finds to a visitor centre…