6 published discoveries in the Artefacts category from England — coins, hoards, jewellery and artefacts recovered by detectorists and archaeologists.
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In 1837 workmen taking stone from a burial cairn on Bodmin Moor found a gold cup beaten from a single sheet. It went to the Crown, spent a century in royal palaces, and now stands in the British Museum beside the Ringlemere Cup.
In 1939 a self-taught archaeologist uncovered the outline of a 27-metre ship under a Suffolk burial mound, and inside it the richest Anglo-Saxon burial ever found: a helmet, gold and garnet fittings and silver from Byzantium.
In 2001 a detectorist in Kent found a crushed gold cup in a ploughed field. It was a rare Early Bronze Age cup, and the excavation that followed his report found an ancient monument hidden beneath the field.
A thin strip of Bronze Age gold, found near Hilborough in Norfolk in 2025, has been declared Treasure. It probably came from a bracelet or torc worn 3,000 years ago, and Norwich Castle Museum hopes to acquire it.
A detectorist in the Chilterns found a hoard of Roman bronze objects, including a rare rattle complete with the peas inside it. He and the landowner have given the whole hoard to the Discover Bucks Museum.
A detectorist at a club rally on the Isle of Sheppey found a small gold reliquary cross, engraved with Christ on one side and the Virgin and Child on the other, with its pearl and pin still in place.
