British Museum says metal detectorists found 1,311 treasures last year

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The British Museum on Tuesday announced that 1,311 finds which are defined as treasure had been found by members of the public across England, Wales and Northern Ireland in 2019.

They also included an iron age drinking set, a solid gold bronze age arm ring and a coin which helps tell the story of Carausius, a usurper emperor who in 286AD broke Britain away from Europe, in an adventure which ended badly.

Michael Lewis, the head of the British Museum’s portable antiquities scheme, said the 1,100-year-old brooch discovered in Norfolk was a particularly striking and rare discovery.

The brooch has a distinctive stylised Anglo-Saxon decoration called Trewhiddle. It features plant motifs, geometric design and animal art which seems to include boar, dragons and dog-like creatures.

In total, 81,602 finds were recorded with the portable antiquities scheme. Many of them may not appear to amount to much but they were all important, said Lewis.

Other finds include a pure gold arm ring weighing 300g and dating from the eighth century AD which was found at St Bees, Cumbria.

Treasure objects are generally defined as gold and silver objects that are over 300 years old, or groups of coins and prehistoric metalwork. Around a third of the objects found last year have been acquired for museum collections.

(Gold arm ring from St Bees, Cumbria)

(Copper alloy fitting from bucket, in the shape of a human face, from Lenham, Kent. Iron Age c. 50BC)

(Roman Britain coin, known as a radiate, found in Headbourne Worthy in Hampshire.)

Source: https://fadmagazine.com/2020/03/17/record-treasure-for-british-museum/, https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/mar/17/british-museum-says-metal-detectorists-found-1311-treasures-last-year

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