Screengrab from Durham University's Facebook post In the fields of North Yorkshire, England, a man with a metal detector named Peter Heads scoured the ground in December 2021. His machine let out ...

Researchers from Durham University excavated the extraordinary site after metal detectorist Peter Heads first stumbled across the discoveries in 2021, Ancient Origins reported. The sweeping cache ...

Now known as the Melsonby Hoard, this vast deposit of more than 800 items was first uncovered by metal detectorist Peter Heads in December 2021. Then, in 2022, a team of archaeologists from Durham ...