3 published discoveries from Wales — coins, hoards, jewellery and artefacts recovered by detectorists and archaeologists.
In 1833 workmen taking stone from a burial mound at Mold in Flintshire found a cape of beaten sheet gold, made around 1900 to 1600 BC. Nothing like it has been found anywhere else in the world.
Over 21 years and more than 1,000 visits to Margam beach, detectorist Peter Hughes recovered around 870 coins from a ship wrecked in 1583. The collection is now on show in Swansea.
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.
