The Melsonby Hoard, hidden for nearly two millennia until its discovery near the village of Melsonby, North Yorkshire, in the middle of the 1st century, consists of over 800 artefacts. These include ...

Volunteers have been helping restore an Iron Age hillfort, which was recently damaged ... He added that the site's flock of Soay-Hebridean sheep are "good at eating the bracken" to help maintain ...

An Iron Age hillfort has been targeted by vandals who have dug firepits, ridden mountain bikes over it and ripped gates off their hinges. English Heritage said it was a criminal offence to cause ...

Sheep are helping too - munching on bracken ... carving out deep grooves into the Iron Age earthworks. Old Oswestry is a scheduled monument, a site protected by law for its archaeological and ...

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 ...

A metal detector hobbyist’s find has yielded one of the UK’s largest and most expansive troves of Iron Age artifacts. After years of excavation work following its 2021 discovery, the Melsonby ...

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 ...

Archaeologists can finally publicly discuss the Melsonby Hoard, a collection of Iron Age artifacts that they have been excavating since a metal detectorist found it in 2021. By Ali Watkins ...

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 ...