A retiree with a metal detector stumbled onto a massive hoard of gold, silver, and bronze coins. The hammer eventually ...

Professor Tom Licence from the University of East Anglia has made an incredible discovery: the largest known hoard of Iron Age gold coins, found in a field near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. The 18 gold ...

A single Celtic gold coin, recovered from farmland in England, is expected to fetch more than $5,000 at auction, highlighting ...

A pastime in a farmer’s field led to the discovery of Norman-era coins valued at more than $5 million. By Ali Watkins The group huddled together in the farmer’s field, staring at the dozen or so ...

LONDON (AP) — Adam Staples knew he’d found something when his metal detector let out a beep. And then another. And another. Soon “it was just ‘beep beep, beep beep, beep beep,’” Staples said. In a ...

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There is clearly giddy excitement in the shaky footage showing hands scrabbling in the soil in the Chew Valley in south-west England. A close-up shot captures someone pulling silver coin after silver ...

A plumber in the United Kingdom unwittingly discovered ancient treasure while walking through a pasture on a summer's day – and now he's auctioning it off. David Dunn, a plumber from Sapcote, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two detectorists recently uncovered real-life treasure in a Norwegian field: thousands of coins dating back to the Viking Age. The ...