“It is just as interconnected, powerful and wealthy as Iron Age communities in the south.” Together, the artifacts are worth £254,000 (about $330,000). The Yorkshire Museum is launching ...

An amateur metal detectorist in Northern England has discovered an "unusual" 2,000-year-old hoard of artifacts that was burned and then buried. The Iron Age finding, named the Melsonby Hoard after ...

A stunning hoard of destroyed – yet still insightful – two-millennia-old artifacts were recently brought ... "one of the largest and most important Iron Age finds in the UK." ...

A passerby discovered a rare Viking-era iron bracelet in a wetland on the Swedish island of Öland. The open-ended bracelet style is rare in large part because of the use of iron. Officials plan ...

A "once-in-a-lifetime" hoard of Iron Age artefacts has been uncovered by archaeologists. Dubbed the Melsonby hoard, more than 800 items were discovered by metal detectorist Peter Heads in 2021 in ...

Recent excavations at six sites—Adichchanallur, Sivagalai, Mayiladumparai, Kilnamandi, Mangadu, and Thelunganur—have revealed iron artifacts dating back to between 2,953 BCE and 3,345 BCE.

In Lot 5, they uncover an iron artifact suspected to be a handmade nail from a barrel or treasure chest. Testing confirms it dates back to the 1600s or 1700s, aligning with historical figures like ...

It’s no Bondi Beach, but Pondi, or Penrith Beach, has been a welcome relief to the city’s sweltering western suburbs. By Victoria Kim Reporting from Penrith, Australia Kristine Carroll plopped ...

For many years, however, there were few protocols for the preservation or proper excavation of artifacts. “We used to have to beg to get on site,” Sophie Jackson, an archaeologist at the ...