An "incredibly mysterious" gold Bronze Age penannular ring has been unearthed by a metal detectorist. The 14.5mm (0.5in) ring, which was found in north Norfolk, was made more than 3,000 years ago.

The 14.5mm (0.5in) ring has been declared treasure by a coroner ... Dr Pestell said the museum tried to add all the county's Bronze Age gold finds to its collections. Andrew Williams/Norfolk ...

Elsewhere, Bronze Age "lock-rings" are another great ancient enigma: highly decorative ornaments crafted from gold sheet and wire. These small, open rings date from the late Bronze Age (around ...

A dazzling Bronze Age gold treasure discovered in Spain more than 60 years ago contains meteoric iron a new analysis reveals.

A three-thousand-year-old piece of Bronze Age gold discovered in north ... the Penannular Ring was found to contain 80 to 82 per cent gold. Dr Nicholas Shaw, assistant coroner for Cumbria, who ...

Locals in Shropshire joked they were 'dusting off' their prospecting pans after a metal detectorist found England's largest-ever nugget of the gold worth £30,000 in only the latest of a series of ...

The beginning of the Bronze Age in Britain can be put around 2,000 ... This is a large circular ditch and bank, and within it was a ring of standing stones - although these have now gone.

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A museum is hoping to acquire a Bronze Age bracelet to keep it for research in the county where it was found. The gold bracelet, dated between 950 and 750 BC, was found in Hilton, Dorset.

During the Bronze Age in Greece, mythological gods existed. It is believed these were the basis for the ancient Greek gods ...

This book explores how creativity was expressed through the medium of clay in the Bronze Age in the Carpathian Basin. Although metal is one of the defining characteristics of Bronze Age Europe, in the ...

Axes made from polished flint and stone were important throughout the Neolithic (Late Stone Age) and Early Bronze Age. Fine-grained stone was quarried from hillsides in Cumbria, Wales, Cornwall ...