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    • A photo of a large earth brown circular pot containing various green metal discoveries
      Article: News Airport x-ray scans reveal haul of new Bronze Age axeheads in pot found in Jersey field
      Experts believe the weapons found in a pot in the area of Trinity last month may have been used as objects of prestige after finding a further 21 axeheads inside the vessel.
      13 November 2012
    • Article: News in Brief Array of treasures thought to be hidden inside Celtic coins mass discovered in Jersey
      Experts investigating the solid mass of 50,000 ancient coins found in a field in Jersey - thought to be one of the largest of its kind ever discovered - have revealed precious gold and silver treasures.
      06 July 2012
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      Article: News Coins cast continental clues as Harborough Museum shows Peatling Magna hoard to public
      Coins from the Roman occupation of France and the Low Countries 2,000 years ago, found in a Leicestershire village in 2010, have gone on display at the Harborough Museum.
      18 July 2012
    • A photo of a stash of gold coins
      Article: Interview Curator's Choice: Ipswich Museum curator Caroline McDonald's Wickham Market Hoard
      As the hoard of Iron Age coins goes on sneak preview to the public, we find out about Ipswich Museum's plans to save it.
      03 May 2011
    • A photo of a man looking at dinosaur bones
      Article: Feature Curator's Choice: Will Watts introduces the Scarborough Speeton plesiosaur
      Scarborough Museums' Will Watts recalls a bitterly cold, ten-day excavation on a North Yorkshire beach which plugged a gap of around 60 million years.
      26 April 2013
    • A photo of a circular gold sculpture with dark red gems around it, resembling a giant eye
      Article: Preview Dark Age Discovery tells the story of hoards at Stoke's Potteries Museum and Art Gallery
      More than 200 ancient artefacts feature in a major display as part of efforts to reveal more about the Staffordshire Hoard by its owners in Stoke-on-Trent and Birmingham.
      20 July 2012
    • A photo of an intricately-designed gold and sapphire ring with a gold gem at its centre
      Article: News Experts to meet in York as Yorkshire Museum ponders mystery of sapphire ring
      Curators hope a meeting of craftsmen and academics will help them discover more about an exquisite ring which has left them "baffled" since being found in a York field in 2009.
      08 January 2013
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      Website Flickr site: Wessex Archaeology's photostream
    • A photo of various archaeological discoveries including Iron Age swords and other things
      Article: News Helmets, Viking gold and Royal boars: Portable Antiquities Scheme releases 2011 report
      From St Albans to North Yorkshire, take a look at some of the incredible treasures recorded during another year of intrigue spurred by archaeological discoveries across the country.
      03 December 2012
    • A photo of an ancient helmet with a crack in it mottled green and brown by soil
      Article: Feature In his own Words: Andrew Richardson on finding a Roman helmet in a Kent field
      The Finds Manager for the Canterbury Archaeological Trust recalls the phonecall which led to the excavation of a Prehistoric helmet from a field in Kent.
      04 December 2012
    • A photo of a mass of green and yellow-coloured Iron Age coins found by archaeologists
      Article: News "Incredible" hoard of 50,000 Iron Age coins, buried in escape from Caesar, found in Jersey
      One of the largest collections of Celtic coins ever found is being examined by experts in Jersey's Parish of Grouville after being reported by a pair of amateur metal detectorists.
      02 July 2012
    • A photo of a set of ancient Bronze Age axes recovered from the earth coloured green
      Article: News "Most important find for decades" returns to Suffolk as Wissett Hoards go on public show
      Curators at the Halesworth and District Museum have cause to celebrate as two extremely rare Bronze Age hoards go on display after a triumphant public fundraising campaign.
      23 November 2012
    • A photo of two dark green axe shards from the Bronze Age against a black backdrop
      Article: News National Museum Wales to bid for Bronze Age treasure axes in Pembrokeshire
      The Deputy Coroner has given treasure status to a pair of 4,000-year-old weapons found by a pair of metal detectorists in a Pembrokeshire field two years ago.
      04 March 2013
    • A photo of a pile of silver Roman coins
      Article: News "When it started beeping I thought, 'sod it'" - Wealden Hoard to go on show in Bexhill
      A metal detectorist says finding a hoard of 3rd century silver coins which are about to go on show in Sussex was "like a dream."
      31 January 2013
    • A photo of a tiny mud-caked badge from hundreds of years ago in the shape of a boar
      Article: News Yorkshire Museum bids to raise £2,000 to put Richard III boar badge on public display
      A badge worn by followers of Richard III hundreds of years ago, found in a North Yorkshire field in 2010, will go on public display if the Yorkshire Museum can raise £2,000.
      30 July 2012
    • A photo of a curator wearing gloves taking a closer looking at a tiny badge of a boar
      Article: News Yorkshire Museum thanks public as £2,000 appeal keeps Richard III boar badge in region
      The public appeal to buy a Medieval badge of allegiance found in a Yorkshire field in 2010 has raised more than the £2,000 required, the Yorkshire Museum has announced.
      17 September 2012
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