This is a list of historically significant items found by metal detecting method, only excluding magnet fishing finds, since magnet fishing is usually considered a distinctively different and separate hobby from traditional metal detecting.

List + Item Date Place of discovery Year of discovery Current location Ashdon Hoard Viking Age 1984 Fitzwilliam Museum Bedale Hoard 9th to 10th century 2012 Yorkshire Museum Bredon Hill Hoard 3rd century 2011 Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum Chew Valley Hoard 11th century 2019 British Museum Collette Hoard Bronze Age 2005 Museum of Antiquities Crosby Garrett Helmet 2nd or 3rd century 2010 Undisclosed Cunetio Hoard Late antiquity 1978 British Museum/Wiltshire Museum Dairsie Hoard 3rd century 2014 National Museum of Scotland Derrynaflan Chalice 8th or 9th century 1980 National Museum of Ireland Escrick ring 5th to 6th century AD 2009 Yorkshire Museum Frome Hoard 253 to 305 2010 Museum of Somerset Fulford ring 15th Century AD 2016 Yorkshire Museum Furness Hoard 9th to 10th century 2011 Dock Museum Galloway Hoard 9th or 10th century 2014 Pending matter (Scottish museums) Grouville Hoard Iron Age 2012 La Hougue Bie Hallaton Helmet 1st century 2000 Harborough Museum Hallaton Treasure 1st century 2000 Harborough Museum Hand of Faith N/A 1980 Golden Nugget Las Vegas Hoxne Hoard 4th or 5th century 1992 British Museum Huxley Hoard 900 to 910 2004 Museum of Liverpool Leekfrith torcs 400 to 250 BC 2016 Potteries Museum & Art Gallery Leominster hoard Viking Age 2015 Herefordshire Council Museum Lenborough Hoard 11th century 2014 British Museum Middleham Hoard 1640s decade 1993 Yorkshire Museum Middleham Jewel 15th century 1985 Yorkshire Museum Milton Keynes Hoard Bronze Age 2000 British Museum Mojave Nugget N/A 1977 Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Newark Torc 200 to 50 BC 2005 Millgate Museum Peebles Hoard 1000 BC to 900 BC 2020 N/A Ringlemere Cup Bronze Age 2001 British Museum Rogiet Hoard 253 to 296 1998 National Museums and Galleries of Wales Saddle Ridge Hoard 1847 to 1894 2013 Undisclosed Saka Hoard 11th or 12th century 2015 N/A Seaton Down Hoard 260 to 348 2013 British Museum Shapwick Hoard 31 BC to 224 1998 Museum of Somerset Shrewsbury Hoard 4th century 2009 British Museum Silsden Hoard 1st century 1998 Cliffe Castle Museum St Albans Hoard Late antiquity 2012 Verulamium Museum Staffordshire Hoard 7th century 2009 Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery/Potteries Museum & Art Gallery Stanchester Hoard 4th to 5th century 2000 Wiltshire Museum Stirling torcs 300 to 100 BC 2009 National Museums Scotland Thetford Hoard 4th century 1979 British Museum Towton torcs Iron Age 2010 to 2011 Yorkshire Museum Trinity Hoard Bronze Age 2012 N/A Vale of York Hoard 10th century 2007 Yorkshire Museum Walkington Hoard 40 to 20 AD 1999 to 2008 Yorkshire Museum Watlington Hoard 9th century 2015 British Museum West Bagborough Hoard 2nd century 2001 Museum of Somerset Wickham Market Hoard Iron Age 2008 Ipswich Museum Winchester Hoard Iron Age 2000 British Museum Wylye Hoard Bronze Age 2012 The Salisbury Museum

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See also Treasure hunting

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