Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Earlier this year, two amateur metal detectorists unearthed a pair of striking 1,400-year-old artifacts in Wiltshire, England. The ...

Largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold, silver found in Britain LONDON -- An amateur treasure hunter prowling English farmland with a metal detector stumbled upon the largest Anglo-Saxon treasure ever ...

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An Anglo-Saxon coin discovered by a metal detectorist is set to fetch up to £200,000 at auction. The Gold Penny, or Mancus of 30 Pence, was struck during the time of Ecgberht, King of the West Saxons ...

A gold Saxon sword pommel discovered by an 81-year-old metal detectorist has sold at auction for £16,000. The 7th Century pommel, measuring 4cm by 1.5cm and weighing 20.5g, was found in a field in ...

A decade after the largest haul of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver was discovered in an English field, archaeologists are shedding new light on the origins of the treasure. The collection, which was ...

Metal detectorists have found a rare gold and garnet raven head in southwestern England’s Wiltshire from the Anglo-Saxon period about 1,400 years ago. They have also unearthed a gold band or ring ...

Anglo-Saxon gold: a past that's no longer dead and buried The most exciting part of the discovery of Anglo-Saxon gold in a Staffordshire field is the light it shines on a civilisation still shrouded ...

A treasure hunter has unearthed the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever, in a find archaeologists have said may be even more significant than the discovery of a burial ship at Sutton Hoo 70 years ...

Discovered over the span of nearly 30 years, a total of 131 coins and other gold objects have been dug up by lucky metal detectorists. The Anglo-Saxon treasure has been dated to about 600 AD and has ...

Drainage engineer Mark Pallett, 55, found the gold shilling or thrymsa, dating from 650-700AD, in a stubble field at Haslingfield, South Cambs, on January 3. The father of three, who had searched the ...