A hoard of coins believed to have belonged to a Highland clan chief who was murdered in the Glencoe Massacre were discovered hidden under a fireplace during an archaeological dig. The 17th century ...

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Newcastle University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. There is clearly giddy excitement in the shaky footage showing hands scrabbling in the soil in the Chew Valley in south-west ...

Metal detectors work by transmitting an electromagnetic field from the search coin (that round part that detectorists sweep back and forth) into the ground. If a metal object falls within the pulse, ...

A hoard of 70 Tudor coins unearthed in a garden during the first lockdown have sold at auction for just over £380,000. Known as The New Forest Hoard, 63 gold coins and one silver were found by a ...

Archaeologists working in the historic Russian town of Torzhok uncovered 409 Imperial Russian gold coins beneath the stone foundation of a house, a discovery that spans more than six decades of ...

A man in Kentucky struck gold when he found a hoard of coins dating back to the American Civil War while digging at his farm. The coins, which numbered 700 in total, were certified by the Numismatic ...

I began history hunting when I was four years old, and it all started from watching Indiana Jones. I used to go fossil hunting, searching my family's farm for relics. Of course, the relics I found ...