Rings, brooches, pendants and personal ornament lost centuries ago and recovered by detectorists.
At a detecting rally near Carlisle, two friends found three complete Bronze Age gold torcs, about 3,100 years old. The rally was also a protest against plans for the UK's largest electricity substation.
Two detectorists found a 1988 high school class ring under a rock on the shore of Great Sacandaga Lake, 28 years after it was lost, and tracked down its owner through her old school.
A gold ring set with eight hogback diamonds, found by a detectorist at Wormington in Gloucestershire, has sold at auction for £17,000. It dates from the late 16th or early 17th century.
A detectorist near Preston found a 17th-century gold memorial ring made in memory of Westminster School's most famous headmaster. Westminster School has now bought it at auction.
An Ohio man used a metal detector to find the wedding ring his late father lost in the front yard almost 50 years ago. Two weeks later, he found a school friend's lost ring too.
Twenty minutes into a search near Bala, a detectorist found a 3,000-year-old gold bracelet he first took for tin foil. A coroner has declared it Treasure, and Storiel in Bangor hopes to acquire it.
Two friends about to give up for the day found a 14th-century gold seal ring in a Suffolk field. Its griffin intaglio and inscription may link it to Matilda of Lancaster, Countess of Ulster.
A semi-retired architect found two 15th-century gold devotional rings in fields near Northallerton within four months. One, an enamelled "Blood of Christ" ring, sold for £17,000, three times its estimate.
