Day: March 16, 2016

Metal prospectors discover astonishing treasure hoards from Anglo-Saxon England

arstechnica.com | By Annalee Newitz | March 14, 2016 Artifacts found buried beneath village farms are rewriting British history. Over the past month, our understanding of England’s distant past has been upended—not by trained archaeologists, but by two hobbyists with simple metal detectors. While prospecting in village farmlands, the two detectorists found clues that could change