There are very few personal items in the hoard. For example, there are no brooches. All the items seem to have a military or ceremonial flavour, which points to the hoard being connected to a ruler.

An amateur metal detectorist in Northern England has discovered an "unusual" 2,000-year-old hoard of artifacts that was burned and then buried. The Iron Age finding, named the Melsonby Hoard after ...

The hoard includes partial remains of at least ... setting in motion a textbook example of proper archaeological practice. This allowed crucial contextual information that would have been lost ...

While some treasure hoards dating to this period appear hurried - as if someone was trying to hide their wealth in a moment ...