Jaw-dropping treasures found by metal detectors
lovemoney staff
15 March 2021
Very rewarding detective work
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Loch Lomond gold ring: $18,000 (£14k)
Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire/PA Images
Australian gold nugget: $66,900 (£51.8k)
TED ALJIBE/Staff/Getty Images
Iron Age Caratacus coin: $94,000 (£71k)
Ken Welsh/Zuma Press/PA Images
Silver coins in a pub garden: $130,000 (£100k)
Courtesy The Lindsey Rose
Two gold nuggets in Victoria: $250,000 (£190k)
Jana Schoenknecht/Shutterstock
Mojave Nugget: $400,000 (£310k)
Reno Chris/Wikimedia Commons
Wickham Market Hoard: $407,400 (£315k)
Portable Antiquities Scheme/Wikimedia Commons
Santa Margarita Gold Chalice: $413,000 (£319k)
Courtesy Guernsey's
Frome Hoard: $413,900 (£320k)
Ben Birchall/PA Archive
Leekfrith Torcs: $420,400 (£325k)
Joe Giddens/PA Wire
Ringlemere Cup: $572,000 (£442.5k)
British Museum/Wikimedia Commons
Shapwick hoard: $580,000 (£449k)
Rodw/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0
Milton Keynes Hoard: $635,600 (£491.8k)
Courtesy British Museum
Newark Torc: $659,000 (£510.2k)
Courtesy Newark Museum
Winchester Hoard: $720,500 (£557.5k)
Portable Antiquities Scheme/Wikimedia Commons
Stirling Torcs: $771,000 (£596.8k)
Jonbod/Wikimedia Commons
Lenborough Hoard: $1.75 million (£1.35m)
Yui Mok/PA Archive
Boot of Cortez: $1.85 million (£1.4m)
Courtesy Heritage Auctions
Galloway Hoard: $2.8 million (£2m)
Derek McLennan/PA Archive
Figurine from King Henry VIII's lost crown: $2.8 million (£2m)
Courtesy Historic Royal Palaces
Hand of Faith: $2.83 million (£2.2m)
Lance Henry/Flickr CC
The Crosby Garrett Helmet: $3 million (£2.3m)
Portable Antiquities Scheme/CC BY 2.0
Jersey coin hoard: up to $3.2 million (£2.5m)
Win Scutt/Flickr/CC BY-NC 2.0
Stolen Herefordshire hoard: $3.9 million (£3m)
Jacob King/PA Wire/PA Images
Gold coins from Spanish Fleet: $4.5 million (£3.5m)
Augi Garcia, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Hoxne Hoard: $4.7 million (£3.6m)
Mike Peel/Wikimedia Commons
Staffordshire Hoard: $5.7 million (£4.4m
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery Wikimedia Commons
Battle of Hastings coin hoard: $6.5 million (£5m)
Aaron Chown/PA Wire/PA Images
Derrynaflan Hoard: $15 million (£11.6m)
Courtesy Government of Ireland
Black Swan Project: $619.7 million (£480m)
Courtesy National Archaeological Museum Madrid
Peebles Bronze Age hoard: priceless
Jens Büttner/DPA/PA Images
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