On the literary works on the theme of treasure hunting, we have all seen a lot, we will find treasure hunting very interesting, but also hope that they have the opportunity to find some mysterious treasures, in fact, for this dream, there have been people in reality to achieve, some of them are because of luck, the ghost made God sent to find the treasure with a long history, and some are through their own efforts, after decades of continuous searching, finally successfully found the treasure of their dreams, according to this aspect of the small editor to say: In the history of mankind, 6 "priceless" treasures that were accidentally discovered!
1, Staffordshire
On July 5, 2009, when he was searching for treasure in a new plough near Hamovich, Staffordshire, England, the metal detector in his hand made a noise, and with the permission of the landowner, Terry Herbert spent 5 days digging and digging out 4600 items and metal fragments from the ground.
It consisted of 5.1 kg of gold, 1.4 kg of silver, and about 3,500 pieces of garnet cloisonné jewelry, which was probably stored between 650-675 AD, and which also contained handicrafts made in the 6th and 7th centuries, when the site was part of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Mesythia, when the area was attacked by the Vikings, it was buried and remained undiscovered for hundreds of years, and in 2009, all the treasures in the Treasure of Staffordshire, It was valued at around £3.28 million by the Treasure Valuation Commission.
2, Gruville
Reg Mead and Richard Miles, arguably the world's most persistent treasure hunters, spent more than 30 years successfully discovering treasure worth more than £10 million, and it is understood that in 1980, the two heard that a farmer on the British Isles of Jersey had found many silver coins in a clay pot when he pulled a tree from a hedge a few years ago, so they decided to go to the area to find treasure.
On the way, she met a lady who told them a strange story, saying that her father was a farmer on the British Isles of Jersey in the English Channel, who found silver coins while ploughing the fields, and Reg Mead and Richard Miles knew that the lady's father, the man they were looking for, after meeting, although the farmer allowed them to search, only within 10 to 15 hours after the harvest of the field.
At first, the two found nothing, but they did not give up, so they continued to search for treasure for more than 30 years, until June 2012, they finally found a large number of treasures, including gold necklaces, an open necklace and glass beads, and a total of 68,000 coins, according to archaeologists, the treasure was buried by the French Celts around 30 BC to 40 BC.
At that time, in order to escape the Roman invasion, these treasures could only be buried, and the Glover Treasure was also the largest repository of gold jewelry and Celtic coins found so far, and according to expert assessments, the valuation of a coin had reached about 1-2 pounds, so the total value of this treasure was almost more than 10 million pounds!
3. Hockson
The sharecropper Peter Watlin, on November 16, 1992, lost a hammer in a field southwest of the village of Hawkeson in Suffolkshire, England, and in order to be able to find it, he borrowed a metal detector from his friend Eric Rouse and searched the field, in the process, the two accidentally found silver spoons, gold jewelry and countless gold and silver coins.
After alerting the authorities, a team of archaeologists was sent to the site and excavated within a day, which later confirmed that the Hawkson Treasure found by Peter Waterlin and Eric Rouse was the largest treasure trove of late Roman gold and silver ever found in Britain, all of which were over 99 percent pure and minted between 394 AD and 405 AD.
Due to the particular rarity of this gold coin, the price was naturally extremely expensive, and in November 1993, the Treasure House Review Committee valued the treasure at £1.75 million, which is about £3.64 million today!
4. Kurdair
The Treasure of Kurdale was accidentally found by a group of workers at work, and it is reported that on May 15, 1840, a group of workers were repairing the embankment of the River Riber in Courdale, near Preston, England, and one of the workers dug out a lead box containing a large amount of treasure.
Including more than 8,600 different items, such as silver coins, jewelry and silver ingots, this matter was later known to the landlord's bailiffs, who quickly retrieved it, but allowed the workers to keep a coin, and the rest was declared a treasure trove and given to Queen Victoria as Duke of Lancaster, a treasure that historians believe should have been left by the Vikings.
Because the coins were buried between 903 and 910 AD, shortly after the Vikings were expelled from Dublin in 902, and the Riber River was an important walking route for the Vikings between the Irish Sea and York, plus the Vikings had the habit of burying treasures, the Treasure of Kurdère should have been left behind by them in this respect.
5. Shiroda
On June 8, 1885, when workers demolished an old building in Shiroda, Poland, it was very rare to find a vase containing more than 3,000 silver coins from the 14th century, however, no serious archaeological research was carried out at that time until three years later, during another demolition near the first discovery of the treasure, silver coins and florin gold coins were found again.
As well as a golden crown that most likely belonged to the first wife of Emperor Charles IV, two 12th-century gold pendants, two 13th-century gold pendants, a medieval gold clasp containing precious stones, and a sapphire ring, which also attracted the attention of many, archaeologists began to investigate the site, confirming that the treasure belonged to Emperor Charles IV.
Around 1348, Emperor Charles needed funds to support his claim to the title of Roman king, so he pawned the treasures, which experts say are considered of great historical research value, and even described it as "one of the most valuable archaeological discoveries of the 20th century", and a book published in 2005 valued the treasure at $100 million.
6. Bactria
In 1978, excavated by Soviet and Afghan archaeologists in the Bactria Hills, the reason why this place was chosen was because it means "golden mountain" in Persian, so many people think that there is a lot of gold hidden here, and sure enough, after excavation, a large amount of gold was found here.
The treasure houses about 20,600 ornaments, coins and other artifacts, made of gold, silver, ivory, etc., and is extremely rich in jewelry, dating from about the 1st century BC to the 1st century AD, but shortly after its discovery, due to war, the treasure disappeared in Afghanistan for a long time and did not attract public attention again until 2003, when a new museum was built in Kabul, where the treasures in the Bactrian Treasure will eventually be preserved.