Researchers found several components like hearth lining, a building, several internal structures, and bits of metals, which made them speculate that an Iron Age blacksmith workshop once stood there.

It demonstrates a previously unknown level of wealth and trading connections typically associated with the southern Britons at this time.

The Iron Age blacksmith would make a sword by heating a bar of iron over a charcoal fire until it was white-hot and then hammering it into shape before it cooled. By reheating quenched iron to a ...

A hoard of Iron Age artifacts discovered by a metal detectorist could alter our understanding of life in Britain 2,000 years ago, researchers have said. Now known as the Melsonby Hoard ...

A huge Iron Age collection of valuables found by a lone metal detectorist has revealed evidence of a rich 'Northern' elite living in Britain around 2,000 years ago. The hoard, deliberately thrown ...

Unsuspecting metal detectorist Peter Heads stumbled upon a huge hoard of Iron Age items buried in two ditches in 2021. Professor Tom Moore, head of archaeology at Durham University, was one of the ...

IRON AGE MAN:We can make enough iron spears to defend our land. That might be enough. BLACKSMITH:I’ll just finish this last one. IRON AGE FATHER:We have new iron weapons, now we can fight the ...

A "once-in-a-lifetime" hoard of Iron Age artefacts has been uncovered by archaeologists. Dubbed the Melsonby hoard, more than 800 items were discovered by metal detectorist Peter Heads in 2021 in ...

A metal detector hobbyist’s find has yielded one of the UK’s largest and most expansive troves of Iron Age artifacts. After years of excavation work following its 2021 discovery, the Melsonby ...