On the morning of April 10, two hobbyist metal detectorists walked into a freshly plowed field near the town of Rena in ...

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A hoard of 14 Saxon silver pennies has been discovered by a metal detectorist. The barely used coins were struck for Ethelred ...

Buried in the mid-11th century, the stash includes silver pieces minted under rulers such as Cnut the Great, Aethelred the ...

In an unprecedented discovery that has stunned archaeologists and historians alike, metal detectorists in Norway have unearthed the country's largest-ever Viking Age coin hoard. Found in a field near ...

After the first day, when archaeologists also joined the coin search, the number rose to 70. It's unlikely we'll exceed 500, Smiseth thought. But with each passing day, the coin discovery kept ...

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The Viking hoard is the largest ever discovered in Norway.

Archaeologists in Norway have made a remarkable discovery that is now being described as one of the most significant Viking ...

An "exceptionally rare" coin hoard has given new clues about life in 9th Century Worcestershire, historians have said. At first, metal detectorists from Go Detecting (Midlands) uncovered a few silver ...

LONDON — 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 farmer’s ...