1 published discovery from Guernsey — coins, hoards, jewellery and artefacts recovered by detectorists and archaeologists.
Global Finds has 1 find from Guernsey, a famous historical find. It is filed under artefacts. It is the Asterix Roman ship, Guernsey, sank about AD 280.
The law: In Guernsey, as in most countries, archaeological finds are protected by national heritage law: report anything old or unusual to the national heritage authority, and never dig at a known site or export a find without permission.
On Christmas Day 1982 local diver Richard Keen found old timbers on the seabed between the pierheads of St Peter Port, Guernsey. They were the hull of a Gallo-Roman merchant ship that caught fire and sank around AD 280, the most complete Roman sea-going wreck found outside the Mediterranean.
