The Yorkshire Museum’s Melsonby Hoard exhibition has won a national archaeology award. Here’s why its approach to conservation and research matters.

A permitted metal detecting search near Wesseling, Germany, led to the recovery of 934 Roman silver coins. Here’s what makes the discovery special.

The Blyth Hoard pairs Bronze Age axe-heads and clay moulds with Scotland’s first complete copper ingot. It may also link to the nearby Peebles Hoard.

Every detectorist knows the feeling of packing up at the end of a long day with nothing but ring pulls and a sore back to show for it. Andy Crammond and Alan Daniels knew it better than most. The two Scottish mates had been detecting together for years and, by their own admission, always came … Read more

Every now and then a find comes along that reminds you exactly why we put up with the wet fields, ring pulls, shotgun caps and endless bloody moo tubes. The Bickmarsh Hoard is definitely one of those finds. Sixty-three coins, more than 1,100 years old, found in a Worcestershire field by a group of ordinary … Read more

Most of us have had one of those flat days. Another walk, another field, the coil swinging back and forth over ground that seems determined to give you nothing but ring-pulls, shotgun caps and bits of scrap. That is more or less how metal detectorist Kevin Houghton described the day that eventually led to something … Read more

If you have ever daydreamed about your coil passing over a field and lighting up with signal after signal after signal, the Great Baddow Hoard is the daydream made real. All 935 gold coins have finally gone on public display at the Museum of Chelmsford, and it is officially the largest hoard of Iron Age … Read more

I love stories like this one, because it’s exactly the kind of thing that happens to detectorists all over the world and most of the time nobody outside the hobby ever hears about it. A Norwegian detectorist called Morten Eek dug up what he assumed was a scruffy old button, chucked it in a tray … Read more