10 Most Amazing Treasures Found In Private Mines

10 Most Amazing Treasures Found In Private Mines

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10 Most Amazing Treasures Found In Private Homes and Mines
The idea of finding a windfall of money is all most of us ever dream of, right? Just picture it; finding a treasure trove worth millions of dollars! That would change your life overnight, right?

Unfortunately, that’s not the case:

No matter how deep you dig below your suburban home, the only thing you find are bottle caps and dimes. Ahh man, that really sucks!

However, there are a few people who have struck gold in their backyard...quite literally! With that being said, let’s take a look at 10 amazing treasures found in private homes and mines. You won’t believe the value of these invaluable hoards!
10. Staffordshire Hoard - $4.1 Million
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcriG8UIRVI

On July 5, 2009, Terry Herbert, an amateur treasure hunter, was searching a newly-plowed farm field near Hammerwich, Staffordshire, England when his metal detector pinged.

With the permission of the landowner, Fred Johnson, over five days of digging, 3,500 objects were pulled from the ground.

They were part of what came to be called the Staffordshire Hoard. It is composed solely of military objects, with no vessels or eating utensils or jewelry. It included over 11 pounds of gold, 3 pounds of silver and semi-precious garnets.

The garnets would have come from as far away as Sri Lanka or Afghanistan.

The objects were most likely created during the 6th and 7th centuries. At that time, the location was part of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia.

It's possible that the hoard was buried in 875 A.D. when the area came under attack by Vikings.

In November 2009, the hoard was valued at £3.285 million, and the Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery launched a fundraising effort to raise enough money to buy it.

With only three weeks to go before a deadline, that amount was raised. Today, the hoard is displayed at the Birmingham Museum.
9. The Le Catillon II Hoard - $10 Million
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHewyQw4aJE

Sometime in the early 1980s, metal detection enthusiasts Reg Mead and Richard Miles encountered a woman who told them a strange story.

She said that her father, a farmer on the British island of Jersey in the English Channel, had discovered silver coins while plowing his field.

Mead and Miles approached the farmer, who gave them permission to search, but only for 10 to 15 hours right after the field's crops were harvested.

Thirty years later, Mead and Miles were still searching when in June 2012, they spotted coins.

Calling in some professional archaeologists, the coins slowly made their way out of the ground, all 68,000 of them!

The hoard also contained gold neck torcs, a sort of opened-ended necklace, and glass beads.

Archaeologists determined that the hoard was buried around 30 B.C. to 40 B.C. by French Celts who were known as the Coriosolitae tribe of Celts.

They were most likely fleeing from a Roman invasion — Julius Caesar was the Roman Emperor at the time. The Le Catillon II Hoard is the largest hoard of gold jewelry and Celtic coins ever discovered.

8. St. Albans Hoard - $100,000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rrWjAZ85vQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15UA-8XIAKk

In September 2012, Westley Carrington went into a shop in the English town of Berkhamsted and bought a beginner's metal detector. He then went out to hunt for coins on a farm field.

Little did he know that this simple feat would change his life completely!

What Carrington found is one of the largest hoards of Roman gold coins ever found in Great Britain.

It included 159 Roman Solidi, which date to the late fourth century A.D. This was when the Roman occupation of Britain ended.

The coins were struck during the reigns of Emperors Gratian, Valentinian II, Theodosius I, Arcadius and Honorius, and they were far more valuable than the typical silver, and bronze Roman coins.

During the fourth century A.D., St. Albans was the important Roman town of Verulamium, and the coins are now displayed at the Verulamium Museum.

7. Hoxne Hoard - $3.8 Million
On November 16, 1992, tenant farmer Peter Whatling had lost a hammer in a farm field just southwest of the village of Hoxne in Suffolk, England.

The tenant asked his friend, Eric Lawes, to use his metal detector to find the hammer.

What Lawes found instead were silver spoons, gold jewelry, and gold and silver coins. After alerting authorities, a team of archaeologists was dispatched to the site, and they excavated it in a day.

What they unearthed was the largest hoard of late Roman gold and silver ever discovered in Britain.

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