Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Earlier this year, two amateur metal detectorists unearthed a pair of striking 1,400-year-old artifacts in Wiltshire, England. The ...

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A decade after the largest haul of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver was discovered in an English field, archaeologists are shedding new light on the origins of the treasure. The collection, which was ...

Largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold, silver found in Britain LONDON -- An amateur treasure hunter prowling English farmland with a metal detector stumbled upon the largest Anglo-Saxon treasure ever ...

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A gold Saxon sword pommel discovered by an 81-year-old metal detectorist has sold at auction for £16,000. The 7th Century pommel, measuring 4cm by 1.5cm and weighing 20.5g, was found in a field in ...

Metal detectorists have found a rare gold and garnet raven head in southwestern England’s Wiltshire from the Anglo-Saxon period about 1,400 years ago. They have also unearthed a gold band or ring ...

Britain's largest collection of gold artifacts has been discovered and it dates back 1,300 years to the Anglo-Saxons. Nicholas Glass of ITN reports. And finally tonight, a story about some long-lost ...

FRANKFURT, Germany — Armed with metal detectors and a recent book as a guide, a couple digging through an east German swamp uncovered what the Red Army missed in its search for war booty crates of ...

A treasure hunter has unearthed the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever, in a find archaeologists have said may be even more significant than the discovery of a burial ship at Sutton Hoo 70 years ...

LONDON (AP) — It’s official: Some of the 90 pieces of gold and silver found in central England last year have formally been declared to be treasure. Archaeologists found the haul in the same English ...