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British Museum showcases 2023-24’s most spectacular amateur treasure hunter finds
euronews (in English)
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19/02/2025
Amateur treasure hunters, from detectorists to mudlarkers, are uncovering remarkable historical artefacts across Britain, with the British Museum spotlighting their latest finds.
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It's tempting to think that we've found everything, and we've found so much in a way that you
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can see why people think that maybe there isn't very much left to find. But there is
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an amazing amount of stuff that seems to be left. Things are being found all the time.
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Here we have a silver coin of the East Anglian king Athelstan II, who was also the Viking
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ruler Guthrum. He adopted Christianity and was baptised as Athelstan. This is the first
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silver coin minted by a Scandinavian ruler in Britain in the late 800s. Ordinarily a
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single silver coin wouldn't be treasure, and so anyone who found something like this would
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be able to sell it or keep it themselves. But because of the significance of this coin,
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and what it tells us about this particular moment in history, it's been declared treasure.
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So what I have in front of me is a middle Bronze Age hoard, about 3,300 years old,
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of bronze objects. And we get quite a few of these through found by metal detectorists. But
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what makes this hoard exceptional and special is that it contains a small anvil for working
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precious metal. And that's the earliest and first metal anvil found in Britain.
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So it's a really important new discovery.
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