Humans have been making things since the beginning of our time on this planet, and occasionally those things get lost or buried in the ground either intentionally to hide, protect, or preserve them, or perhaps just by natural changes to the planet and the environment as time passes.
As with most relic and things from the past, people in the modern day occasionally stumble upon these long lost items, and it gives us a most interesting glimpse into the day of long ago.
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"The Horned Helm Of Henry VIII. Commissioned In 1511 As Part Of A Suit Of Armor That Was Gifted To King Henry VIII By The Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I"
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"Mosaics Of A Roman Villa Were Found Under A Vineyard In Negrar, Italy"
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"A Gallic Bronze Helmet In The Shape Of A Swan, Found By Archeologists In Tintignac, France, In 2004 (4th-2nd Century BCE)"
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"An Ancient Clay Tablet Found In Uruk (Warka), Southern Iraq"
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"17th Century Boots, Certamen Equestre"
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"500-Year-Old Vistula Punt Found In A Pond In Czersk, Poland In 2009"
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"Incredible Rare Roman Statues Found In HS2 Rail Construction Dig"
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"A 1,700-Year-Old Roman-Era “Good Shepard” Gold Ring Bearing An Engraving Of A Boy Holding A Sheep On His Shoulders, An Image Used By Early Christians To Symbolise Jesus"
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"Mosaic On The Floor Depicting The Catasterism Of Orion In The House Of Jupiter, Regio V (Late 2nd Century BC)"
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"Medieval Ax With A Preserved Wooden Handle Was Discovered On The Island Of Ledniczka In Poland"
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"Not Exactly Metal Detecting, But I Figured You All Would Appreciate It. More Than 120-Year-Old Rum Jug I Found In A Sunken Ship"
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"This Archaeological Wall Of Engravings I Found While Hiking"
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"While Digging Up The Road, Construction Workers Found A Piece Of A 16th Century City Wall"
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"Doll Head And Marble Found While Digging At A Tavern Built In 1850"
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"A James 1st Silver Shilling. Over 400-Years-Old. Found While Metal Detecting"
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"My Mom Just Found An Old Shoe And A Bottle While Digging In Our Yard"
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"Medieval Gold Ring I Just Found"
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"This Penny I Found From 1902"
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"This Rusty Sword We've Found. Most Likely A Polish WWI Officer's Sword" "Probably the most striking thing about this is, that we've found it buried deep in the ground in the middle of a small town in the north-western part of Germany."
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"My Buddy Threw His Detector Down And Started This Wild And Crazy Dance. I Asked Him What He Found, But He Couldn't Speak. He Had To Point To It"
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"Back In 2014, The Secrets Of The Ice Program Found An Exceptional Pre-Viking Ski, 1300 Years Old, At The Digervarden Ice Patch In Norway"
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"I Found This Elizabeth I Penny While Metal Detecting Yesterday. It's Only 14 Mm In Diameter"
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"Archaeologists In Alexandria, Egypt Discovered A Tunnel That May Lead To The Long-Lost Tomb Of Cleopatra"
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"This German-Made 12th Century Blade, Adorned In Sweden, Was Discovered In 1975 Buried Under A Tree In Siberia, Russia"
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"First-Time Metal Detecting. Found An Over 100-Year-Old Time Capsule"
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"At The Penn Museum Excavations At Nimrud, Iraq, Archaeologists Uncovered A Door Threshold Of The Assyrian King Adad-Nerari III (811-783 BCE) With A Well-Preserved Cuneiform Inscription"
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"British Archaeologist Leonard Woolley And His Wife Catherine At The Moment Of The Discovery Of Pottery Pipes"
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"The Earliest Swords So Far Known In The World, Found At Arslantepe Mound In Turkey"
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"Some Things I Found While Metal Detecting The Mountains Of Vermont" "Highlights include a musket part, a pair of 1700's shoe buckle frames, and a 1806 Spanish silver half-reales!"
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"The Mask Of Agamemnon Found In Tomb V In Mycenae By Heinrich Schliemann In 1876"
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"I Found This Arrowhead While Digging A Hole In My Backyard"
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"Father Found This Very Unexpected Find Today In Lithuania - A 1904 Morgan Silver Dollar"
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"A Centuries-Old Wooden Statue Was Recently Discovered By A Group Of Dutch Shrimp Fishermen Off The Coast Of Texel" "A municipal archaeologist for that region believes that the statue came from a warship, possibly during the 80 Years' War, which stretched from the mid-1500s to mid-1600s."
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"I Found This American Coin Far Away From Its Country, In A Quiet Field While Metal Detecting In Scotland"
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"Today, I Found A 1893 Wedding Ring In Virginia"
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"My 200-Year-Old House Was Used As A Hospital During The American Civil War. These Were Found In Or Around It By Myself"
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"This Silver Pin I Found While Metal Detecting Is Called A Luckenbooth Brooch. Scottish Tradition But Likely Traded With Native Americans 300 Years Ago"
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"Migration Period Ring Sword, IV-VII AD"
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"Found At Karahan Tepe, Near Gobekli Tepe (Believed To Be Roughly 11,000 Years Old)"
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"Found This 100-Year-Old Coca-Cola Bottle Dated December 25, 1923"
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"I Found this Roman Coin In France While Metal Detecting (Bronze, ~AD 306-337). Emperor Constantine I, Minted In Trier (Treveri), Germany"
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"This Brooch I Found While Metal Detecting"
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"A Bone Carved, Household Idol To Venus. Found On An Archaeological Dig I Was On In Israel"
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"Middle Bronze Age Spearhead (C. 1500 BC To C. 1150 BC). I Found It Whilst Metal Detecting In Wales Yesterday Afternoon"
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"Found This In My Backyard While Metal Detecting"
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"Executioner's Sword With An Inscription That Reads "When I Raise This Sword, So I Wish That This Poor Sinner Will Receive Eternal Life". Germany, Late 17th Century"
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"15-Gram Gold Nugget I Found While Metal Detecting On A Vermont Dirt Road"
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"A Gold Bar With Mint Marks, Recovered From The Spanish Treasure Ship "Atocha" Which Sank In 1622"
