Legends of treasure buried near a riverbank turned out to be more than just myth.

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Metal detectorists in eastern Norway have uncovered nearly 3,000 coins in a single field, a cache now described as the ...

LONDON — Adam Staples knew he’d found something when his metal detector let out a beep. And then another. And another. Soon “it was just ‘beep beep, beep beep, beep beep,’” Staples said. In a farmer’s ...

A collection of 63 Anglo-Saxon silver coins, buried in haste more than a thousand years ago in what is now Worcestershire, ...

There is clearly giddy excitement in the shaky footage showing hands scrabbling in the soil in the Chew Valley in south-west England. A close-up shot captures someone pulling silver coin after silver ...

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Authorities in Lower Saxony, northwestern Germany, have announced the discovery of one of the largest hoards of Roman coins ever uncovered in the region. The announcement follows a change of heart ...

A Swedish man who was searching for worms at his summer house outside of Stockholm has uncovered one of the largest silver hoards in the country’s history. The 13-pound hoard dates to the early Middle ...

A little over a year ago, a group of metal detectorists found a hoard of 21 coins in a field near Okehamption Castle in Devon, England. The find was just recently brought to light due to laws ...

LONDON (AP) — Adam Staples knew he’d found something when his metal detector let out a beep. And then another. And another. Soon “it was just ‘beep beep, beep beep, beep beep,’” Staples said. In a ...

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