Treasure Gallery

Metal detector finds can offer a fascinating opportunity to come face-to-face with ancient objects, and learn more about the past. In the last few years some fascinating objects have been recorded under the Portable Antiquities Scheme and the Treasure Act of 1996.

Explore the gallery and uncover some treasure for yourself.

A 7th-century gold pendant	A bronze Iron Age mirror	An 8th-century silver penny	A hoard of Roman coins
A copper-alloy Roman belt plate	An Anglo-Saxon gold fitting	A livery badge	A copper-alloy enamelled disc brooch
A bow brooch	A medieval gold finger-ring	A gold Iron Age hoard	A Bronze Age brooch

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