OXFORDSHIRE is home to some of the most buried treasure, research has found.
Online jewellery shop jewellerybox has used the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport ‘Treasure and portable antiquities statistics’ and ONS population data to find the number of treasure and portable antiques discovered in and around the UK since 2012.
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It found that Oxfordshire is the 10th best place to find buried treasure.
In January 2020, historic artefacts that had been dug up in Oxfordshire were declared treasure.
One of the lots was a 332-year-old mourning ring inscribed with the initials of a dead loved one.
Head coroner for Oxfordshire Darren Salter gave the rulings at a treasure inquest.
Other items to be declared treasure included a gold wired bead, rings and a pyramid – thought to be used to protect the tip of a soldier's sword.
They were all discovered by hunters armed with metal detectors in areas including Cumnor, Charlton and Stanton St John.
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