One of UK’s largest Iron Age hoards to reveal more about Britain history | Engineering

In one of the largest and most important Iron Age finds in the history of the UK and Europe, archaeologists have recovered an “exceptional” 800 objects from the Melsonby Hoard.

Since the discovery of the Melsonby Hoard in 2021, Dunham University has been excavating near the village of Melsonby, North Yorkshire.

As the name suggests, they struck archaeological gold, as an unprecedented number of objects had been buried in the ground for either safekeeping or ritualistic purposes.

The United Kingdom boasts plenty of Iron Age hoards. However, according to Dunham University’s release, this collection is one of the “largest and most important” Iron Age hoards.

Unusually, a significant number of the hoard’s contents, they came to discover, had been burnt or broken,…more