It began, as many great discoveries do, with a metal detectorist and a lucky beep. In December 2021, Peter Heads stumbled upon what would turn out to be one of the largest and most significant Iron ...

On that fateful day in the year before the start of the Great War, 439 miners and a ... down the pit in 1893 that the last deep coal mine in Britain would close little more than a hundred years ...

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 ...

A remarkable Iron Age hoard, unearthed in a Yorkshire field, is prompting archaeologists to reassess the wealth and power dynamics of northern Britain two millennia ago. The discovery, dubbed the ...

A new DNA-based study challenges the conventional understanding that Iron Age Britain society was dominated by men. An ...

Moore says that the pieces decorated in both Mediterranean and Iron Age styles suggested a network of elites across Britain, into Europe and the Roman world. “The destruction of so many high ...

One of the largest and most significant Iron Age hoards ever discovered ... our understanding of life in Britain 2,000 years ago. It began, as many great discoveries do, with a metal detectorist ...