Coins, hoards, artefacts and remarkable discoveries from detectorists and archaeological sources around the world.
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Medieval · 30 Oct 2026
Five members of Teignbridge History Finders found 21 silver groats and pennies, spanning about 150 years, in a field a mile from Okehampton Castle in Devon. Declared Treasure, the hoard has been bought by the Museum of Dartmoor Life and is on show there until 7 November.
Early Medieval · 17 Oct 2026
A coroner in Hereford has declared 47 more Anglo-Saxon silver pennies from the Herefordshire Hoard to be Treasure, including one posted anonymously to a Cambridge museum. More than ten years after the hoard was dug up and hidden, well over 200 of its coins are still missing.
Early Medieval · 15 Oct 2026
A gilded Anglo-Saxon mount just 3.4 centimetres long, found by a metal detectorist at Holme Hale in Norfolk in 2024, has been barred from export as a national treasure. Its clear image of a four-legged beast is extremely rare, yet a museum needs only £1,054 to keep it.
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Medieval · 14 Oct 2026
In November 2023 soldiers checking Geumseongsan mountain in Naju, South Korea, for landmines before a hiking trail was built found a small bronze tube 10 centimetres down. Three years of study have now confirmed it as Korea's oldest surviving gunpowder weapon, made in 1377 or 1437.
Roman · 13 Oct 2026
Two silver denarii of Carausius, the Roman commander who made himself emperor of Britain in AD 286, were found by a metal detectorist at Westbury-on-Severn in Gloucestershire in June 2023. They have now sold at auction for £16,000, well above their estimate.
Modern · 10 Oct 2026
On 3rd October 2026, Rob dug an iPhone out of the wet sand on Cayley Beach, Colwyn Bay. It still worked; its Lost Mode message gave a number, and within the week it was back with Myah in Market Drayton, 73 miles away, who had lost it in the sea on 25th August.
Bronze Age · 8 Oct 2026
Mariusz Stepien, who found the famous Peebles Hoard in 2020, has revealed a second Late Bronze Age hoard found in 2022 seven miles away in the Scottish Borders. The Blyth Hoard includes bronze axe-heads, clay moulds and Scotland's first complete copper ingot.
Bronze Age · 8 Oct 2026
Metal detectorist Steve McKnight found a tiny coiled gold ingot on an organised dig at Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, in September 2025. A coroner has declared it Treasure, and Leicester Museum hopes to acquire it.
Early Medieval · 2 Oct 2026
In April 2026 a man walking on a field path near Rold in north Jutland spotted two gold arm-rings in the ground. A metal-detector survey by archaeologists found four more. Together they make the third-largest Viking Age gold find ever made in Denmark.
Modern · 2 Oct 2026
Two hikers in north-east Czechia found 598 gold coins and a box of jewellery hidden in an old field wall, and handed everything to the regional museum the same day.
