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A British man who found a massive cache of ancient Roman gold and silver coins while hunting with a metal detector has a lot more modern currency in his pocket after the treasure was auctioned off ...
The Wickham Market Hoard is a hoard of 840 Iron Age gold staters found in a field at Dallinghoo near Wickham Market, Suffolk, England in March 2008 by car mechanic, Michael Dark using a metal detector. After excavation of the site, a total of 825 coins were found, and by the time the hoard was declared treasure trove, 840 coins had been ...
The hoard probably dates to a little earlier than the larger Hoxne Hoard, found in Suffolk in 1992, which included 569 gold solidi and nearly 15,000 other coins. [7] It is not the first hoard found near St Albans, which was the site of the major Roman town of Verulamium. In 1932, a hoard of 2nd-century silver denarii was found at Beech Bottom ...
Returning to the field with a better metal detector, “I proceeded to find another nine coins in the same area in the following weeks,” Watson said. A photo shows the full collection of gold coins.
The recovered coins were "solidi," meaning that they were made of pure gold, and INRA noted that the government of Luxembourg had given 308,600 euros to the "beneficiaries" of the coin hoard ...
"Unearthed" unusually means they were found buried in the ground but some are hidden by other means. Baltimore gold hoard [1] Bank of New York Hoard [2] Castine Hoard [3] Dawson Film Find [4] Great Kentucky Hoard [5] Saddle Ridge Hoard [6]
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This is a list of historically significant items found by metal detecting method, only excluding magnet fishing finds, since magnet fishing is usually considered a distinctively different and separate hobby from traditional metal detecting.