13 published discoveries in the Jewellery category from England — coins, hoards, jewellery and artefacts recovered by detectorists and archaeologists.
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In 1985 a metal detectorist searching beside a bridle path near Middleham Castle in Wensleydale found a 15th-century gold pendant set with a sapphire. It sold for £1.3 million, and the Yorkshire Museum raised £2.5 million to keep it.
In 2000 a retired florist detecting near Winchester found two sets of gold neck-rings and brooches and two bracelets, more than a kilogram of very pure gold buried about 2,000 years ago.
In December 2016 two detectorists searching a field near Leek in Staffordshire found three gold torcs and a bracelet. Made around 400 to 250 BC, they are thought to be the earliest Iron Age gold ever found in Britain.
In 1912 workmen demolishing a building in Cheapside, in the City of London, broke into a buried box holding about 500 pieces of Elizabethan and Jacobean jewellery: the stock of a 17th-century goldsmith.
A 14th-century gold finger ring found by a detectorist near Rugby in 2023 has been declared Treasure, recorded with the PAS, and bought by Rugby Art Gallery and Museum.
A newly married couple lost their heirloom wedding rings in the sea at Embleton Bay on their honeymoon. Two local detectorists found them within five minutes.
A Bournemouth detectorist who finds lost property for free has reached his 500th recovery: an engagement ring thrown during an argument, found sitting on top of a hedge.
A visitor lost her wedding ring on the beach at Botany Bay. A new community noticeboard, a WhatsApp chain and five hours of searching by Thanet Metal Detecting got it back.
