The largest and arguably most beautiful hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever found in Britain has been valued at nearly £3.3m by a panel of experts, a reward that will be shared between the amateur metal detectorist who found it and the Staffordshire farmer in whose pasture it lay hidden for 1,300 years.
Professor Norman Palmer, chair [...]
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30 Nov
Staffordshire Anglo-Saxon treasure hoard valued at £3.3m
24 Sep
Staffordshire Hoard – huge Anglo-Saxon gold hoard found!
The UK’s largest haul of Anglo-Saxon treasure has been discovered buried beneath a field in Staffordshire.
Experts say the collection of 1,500 gold and silver pieces, which may date to the 7th Century, is unparalleled in size and worth “a seven figure sum”.
It has been declared treasure by South Staffordshire coroner Andrew Haigh, meaning it [...]
18 Sep
Unique golden chariot from Ancient Thrace
An exhibition displaying an absolutely unique golden decoration of a chariot from Ancient Thrace was opened Wednesday in the Mall of Sofia, in the downtown of the Bulgarian capital.
The Thracian chariot in question was technically in fact found in 1976 near the village of Karanovo but no one had realized its existence.
Only at the beginning [...]
22 Jul
Gold artefacts from the Hellenistic period discovered in Ohrid (Macedonia)
20 July 2009 | This Saturday, archeologists in Ohrid unearthed exceptionally valuable finds dating to the fifth century BC.
On the road between the Upper Gate and the St. Bogorodica Perivlepta Church were discoevered 17 tombs from the Hellenistic Period, Pasko Kuzman, head of the Macedonian Department for Cultural Heritage told the Dnevnik daily newspaper.
In one [...]
