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Somerset Roman hoard
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Metal detector finds buried Roman treasure

A hoard of more than 52,500 Roman coins discovered in a Somerset field has been declared treasure.
Dave Crisp, from Wiltshire, found the coins - dating from the 3rd Century AD - buried in a field, near Frome.
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One of the largest ever finds of Roman coins in Britain has been made by a man using a metal detector.
The hoard of more than 52,000 coins dating from the 3rd Century AD was found buried in a field near Frome in Somerset.
The coins were found in a huge jar just over 30cm below the surface by Dave Crisp, from Devizes in Wiltshire.
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Huge Anglo-Saxon gold hoard found
The UK's largest haul of Anglo-Saxon treasure has been discovered buried beneath a field in Staffordshire.
Experts say the collection of 1,500 gold and silver pieces, which may date to the 7th Century, is unparalleled in size and worth "a seven figure sum".

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A deep sea treasure-hunting company has been ordered by a US judge to hand over half a million gold and silver coins to the government of Spain.
The company, Odyssey Marine Exploration, raised the haul from a shipwreck in the Atlantic, suspected to be that of a Spanish naval vessel.
The Spanish government argued that the treasure formed part of the country's national heritage.

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Oldest Gold Necklace
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Archaeologists make a surprising discovery in southern Peru after they unearthed the oldest gold necklace ever found.
The necklace has nine small gold tubes with a series of round stones, identified as either greenstone or turquoise. The necklace's gold beads are thick and cylindrical in shape with different lengths.

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Archaeologists have discovered a copper hoard believed to be nearly 4,000-years-old near a village in Uttar Pradesh`s Auraiya district, raising hopes of its radiocarbon dating and understanding the culture and chronology of that period.

"The hoard, weighing about 25 kilograms and consisting of various types of artefacts, including a barbed spearhead, an anthropomorphic figure, flat shouldered axes, chisels and rings, was discovered quite accidentally" - Rakesh Tewari, director, UP Directorate of Archaeology.

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Queen Anne's Revenge
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On a fateful day in November 1996, as divers with Intersal, Inc, were winding down their search for shipwrecks in Beaufort Inlet, they discovered a room-sized mound of cannons, anchors, and ballast stones. Eight years before, in 1988, the private research firm had received a permit from the North Carolina Underwater Archaeology Branch, (UAB) to search for the remains of Queen Anne's Revenge and Adventure in Beaufort Inlet.

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Salvagers discovered thousands of pearls Friday in a small, lead box they said they found while searching for the wreckage of the 17th-century Spanish galleon Santa Margarita.

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A record haul of half a million silver and gold coins from a 17th Century shipwreck may have been found just 40 miles from Land's End, an expert said.
US treasure hunters said the coins, worth an estimated $500m (£253m), were recovered in the Atlantic Ocean.
But Odyssey Marine Exploration, who described it as the largest find of its kind, refused to pinpoint the location.
US coin expert Dr Lane Brunner said there was evidence the shipwreck was lying off the Cornish coast.

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Deep-sea treasure hunters said Friday they have recovered what could be a record haul of gold and silver coins from a colonial-era shipwreck -- but their failure to provide many details has set off a galleon-sized controversy over their claims.
The hunters from Odyssey Marine Exploration Inc., a Tampa, Florida.-based company, said their haul has so far totalled about 17 tons of coins, more than 500,000 in all.
Each coin could bring between a few hundred and several thousand dollars, according to an expert who evaluated some of them at the company's request. The total could reach $500 million dollars, which would make it one of the most valuable sunken treasures ever discovered.

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