“The destruction of so many high-status objects, evident in this hoard, is also of a scale rarely seen in Iron Age Britain ...

The Iron Age hillfort has legal protections as it is a scheduled monument [English Heritage] "Old Oswestry is one of the finest Iron Age hillforts in the whole country and really famous," he said.

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 ...

Iron spearheads and copper alloy artifacts that were found in the Melsonby Hoard. (Image credit: Durham University) From the field, the team cut out a large block of earth holding the artifacts ...

A small village in rural North Yorkshire has become the site of one of the largest and most important Iron Age finds in the UK. Experts have discovered more than 800 items buried in Melsonby ...

The collection, which dates to the first century C.E., includes items ranging from elaborately decorated horse harnesses to ornate cauldrons ...

A huge Iron Age collection of valuables found by a lone metal detectorist has revealed evidence of a rich 'Northern' elite living in Britain around 2,000 years ago. The hoard, deliberately thrown ...

A "once-in-a-lifetime" hoard of Iron Age artefacts has been uncovered by archaeologists. Dubbed the Melsonby hoard, more than 800 items were discovered by metal detectorist Peter Heads in 2021 in ...

An Iron Age hillfort has been targeted by vandals ... which is a scheduled monument. Curator Win Scutt said he was devastated to see the damage caused and theorised it might have been caused ...