Milly Hardwick, a 13-year-old from Suffolk, England, was out metal-detecting with her father, when they stumbled upon an artifact which they joked could be an axe. The object turned out to be exactly ...

Archaeologists in Poland recently made an exciting discovery from the Bronze Age. A metal detectorist named Denis Konkol was exploring the forests of Kociewie when he came across five bronze axes ...

The ground in Estonia gave up several exciting finds again last year, among them a unique bronze axe, clumps of iron and a treasure of coins. 1. Bronze axe from Läägi Village, Saaremaa A bronze axe ...

The remains of a 'high-status' early Bronze Age man were found buried — along with a perfectly-preserved axe — in a log coffin at the bottom of a golf course pond. Following the accidental discovery ...

The axe was found at Paimio, not far from Turku in the southwest. Because of the acidity of the soil, once buried, organic materials are rarely preserved in Finland. However, this bronze axe, which ...

From British pounds to Croatian kuna, a range of different currencies are used across Europe today. Now, researchers have shed light on what the first common currency in Europe might have been. Their ...

The rarity of this find becomes even more apparent when considering that the British Museum possesses only one other Bronze Age lead ingot, discovered during excavations at Runnymede Bridge near Egham ...

The 13-year-old, Milly Hardwick, said that she, her father and her grandfather had been out in a field with metal detectors for several hours on a Sunday in Royston, England, and had not found a ...

They were in a cache of 23 pieces of bronze found near Shalford in Essex. "Usually Bronze Age metalwork can go a bit crumbly, but there's still a bit of a shine to it after thousands of years in the ...

A Bronze Age hoard of axes, spear and bracelet fragments dating back to about 1,000 BC have been declared treasure. Richard Trew made the finds while metal-detecting in Llanddeusant, Carmarthenshire ...

Rare Bronze Age artefacts unearthed by metal detector enthusiasts will help future generations piece together a picture of life in ancient Wharfedale. The two bronze axe heads, essential tools for ...