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BOSTON - A treasure hunt that spanned much of the northeast before being narrowed to the woods of Massachusetts has turned up gold. The creators of Project Skydrop said that somebody picked up the ...
UPDATE: The Project Skydrop trophy has been found in Massachusetts. Click here for the latest.. AMHERST - The Project Skydrop treasure hunt for a gold trophy and a massive prize has zeroed in on ...
Treasure hunts have long captured people's imaginations — you can even download a geocaching app to hunt for real-world caches of information using GPS devices. The art collector Forrest Fenn ...
Prior to the discovery of the hoard, the largest buried collection of gold found in the US was uncovered by city workers in Jackson, Tennessee, in 1985. The Jackson hoard had a face value of $4,500 and sold for about $1 million (not adjusted for inflation). [7] The face value of the Saddle Ridge treasure is $27,980. [8]
The hoard includes almost 4,600 items and metal fragments, [8] [1] totalling 5.094 kg (11.23 lb) of gold and 1.442 kg (3.18 lb) of silver, with 3,500 cloisonné garnets [6] [9] and is the largest treasure of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver objects discovered to date, eclipsing, at least in quantity, the 1.5 kg (3.3 lb) hoard found in the Sutton Hoo ship burial in 1939.
The treasure was allegedly found in 1937 by American businessman and gold prospector Milton Ernest "Doc" Noss. [ 1 ] [ a ] While there have been multiple documented expeditions to the peak, no gold has been officially recorded as being recovered from the site. [ 3 ]
Inside the 1,200-year-old grave, archaeologists unearthed a treasure trove of gold artifacts, including several breastplates, two belts made of gold beads, bracelets, figure-shaped earrings ...
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