A metal detector hobbyist’s find has yielded one of the UK’s largest and most expansive troves of Iron Age artifacts. After years of excavation work following its 2021 discovery, the Melsonby ...

Researchers from Durham University excavated the extraordinary site after metal detectorist Peter Heads first stumbled across ...

Archaeologists can finally publicly discuss the Melsonby Hoard, a collection of Iron Age artifacts that they have been excavating since a metal detectorist found it in 2021. By Ali Watkins ...

(CNN) — A hoard of Iron Age artifacts discovered by a metal detectorist could alter our understanding of life in Britain 2,000 years ago, researchers have said. Now known as the Melsonby Hoard ...

"The destruction of so many high-status objects, evident in this hoard, is also of a scale rarely seen in Iron Age Britain and demonstrates that the elites of northern Britain were just as ...

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 ...

Researchers looking at the newly discovered Iron Age hoard. — Durham University/File "Unusually it includes lots of pieces of vehicles and items such as the wine mixing bowl which is decorated ...

The Melsonby Hoard, discovered by metal detectorist Peter Heads in 2021 and meticulously excavated since, represents one of ...

A small village in rural North Yorkshire has become the site of one of the largest and most important Iron Age finds in the UK. Experts have discovered more than 800 items buried in Melsonby ...

The Iron Age finding, named the Melsonby Hoard after the nearby village of Melsonby in North Yorkshire, contains more than 800 artifacts, including a cauldron, wine-mixing bowl, horse riding ...