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2. Hoxne Hoard - Wikipedia

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   The Hoxne Hoard (/ ˈhɒksən / HOK-sən) [ 2 ] is the largest hoard of late Roman silver and gold discovered in Britain, [ 3 ] and the largest collection of gold and silver coins of the fourth and fifth centuries found anywhere within the former Roman Empire. [ 4 ] It was found by Eric Lawes, a metal detectorist in the village of Hoxne in ...

3. Staffordshire Hoard - Wikipedia

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   The hoard includes almost 4,600 items and metal fragments, [8] [1] totalling 5.094 kg (11.23 lb) of gold and 1.442 kg (3.18 lb) of silver, with 3,500 cloisonné garnets [6] [9] and is the largest treasure of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver objects discovered to date, eclipsing, at least in quantity, the 1.5 kg (3.3 lb) hoard found in the Sutton Hoo ship burial in 1939.

4. Metal detector - Wikipedia

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   A metal detector is an instrument that detects the nearby presence of metal. Metal detectors are useful for finding metal objects on the surface, underground, and under water. A metal detector consists of a control box, an adjustable shaft, and a variable-shaped pickup coil. When the coil nears metal, the control box signals its presence with a ...

5. List of metal detecting finds - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of historically significant items found by metal detecting method, only excluding magnet fishing finds, since magnet fishing is usually considered a distinctively different and separate hobby from traditional metal detecting.

6. Ancient coins found by Indiana Jones enthusiast sell for $176,000

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   Kerry Breen. September 19, 2024 at 12:42 PM. A British man who found a massive cache of ancient Roman gold and silver coins while hunting with a metal detector has a lot more modern currency in ...

7. Treasure of Villena - Wikipedia

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   The Treasure of Villena (Spanish: Tesoro de Villena) is one of the greatest hoard finds of gold of the European Bronze Age. It comprises 59 objects made of gold, silver, iron and amber with a total weight of almost 10 kilograms, 9 of them of 23.5 karat gold. This makes it the most important find of prehistoric gold in the Iberian Peninsula and ...