That's the conclusion archaeologists drew from a cache of more than 800 Iron Age artifacts from northeast England dating back about 2,000 years. Found in a field near Melsonby, North Yorkshire, in ...

The hoards, filled with metal objects, beads, fabrics, and animal tusks, span the Late Bronze Age into the Early Iron Age.

A hoard of Iron Age "bling" unearthed in North Yorkshire was a "garish" display of wealth from tribes more powerful than previously thought, an archaeologist has said. Dr Adam Parker from the ...

In one of the largest and most important Iron Age finds in the history of the UK and Europe, archaeologists have recovered an “exceptional” 800 objects from the Melsonby Hoard. Since the ...

The Melsonby hoard is a remarkable collection of more than 800 Iron-Age metal artifacts, which was found in a field near Melsonby, North Yorkshire, in December 2021. Its discovery represents a ...

More than £17,000 raised to keep Iron Age artefacts in Yorkshire The Yorkshire Museum has launched a crowdfunding campaign to save the hoard which raised £17,300 within its first 24 hours from ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) The Melsonby hoard is a remarkable collection of more than 800 iron-age metal artefacts, which was found in a field near Melsonby, North Yorkshire, in December 2021.

The archaeologist said the discovery of the Melsonby hoard is of a scale and size that is exceptional for Britain and probably even Europe. Researchers looking at the newly discovered Iron Age ...

“The destruction of so many high-status objects, evident in this hoard, is also of a scale rarely seen in Iron Age Britain and demonstrates that the elites of northern Britain were just as ...

An amateur metal detectorist in Northern England has discovered an "unusual" 2,000-year-old hoard of artifacts that was burned and then buried. The Iron Age finding, named the Melsonby Hoard after ...

The Iron Age began at around 1200 B.C. and ended in 550 B.C., though the university says the objects date back around 2,000 years. Dubbed the Melonsby Hoard, the cache of objects were found by a ...

A massive Iron Age hoard with more than 800 pieces was discovered in northern England. Screengrab from Durham University's Facebook post In the fields of North Yorkshire, England, a man with a ...