A history professor with a passion for metal detecting uncovered a hoard of 18 Iron Age gold coins.

The coins are the largest known find from the reign of Iron Age king Dubnovellaunos, who ruled the Trinovantes tribe what is now mostly Essex and Suffolk, between 25BC and AD10.

Prof Tom Licence, 46, from the University of East Anglia, says he has family history in Bury St Edmunds and likes to "imagine that the coins were buried by one of my ancestors".

Known as The Bury St Edmunds Hoard, it is being auctioned off and is expected to make £25,000.

A collection of more than 800 Iron Age artefacts found in a North Yorkshire field will go on public display for the first time.

The Melsonby Hoard is believed to be one of the UK's largest finds from the period, and, following a fundraising campaign, was acquired by the Yorkshire Museum.

The collection, which features chariot wheels, cauldrons and spears, will displayed in an exhibition at the museum in York from May onwards.

The British Museum has successfully raised £3.5m to keep a gold pendant linked to King Henry VIII's marriage to his first wife, Katherine (also Catherine) of Aragon.

The central London museum launched a fundraising appeal in October so it could permanently acquire the Tudor Heart, found by a metal detectorist in a Warwickshire field in 2019.

It has now announced that it reached its fundraising goal after receiving £360,000 in public donations and a string of donations from grants, trusts and arts organisations.

Museum director Nicholas Cullinan said: "The success of the campaign shows the power of history to spark the imagination and why objects like the Tudor Heart should be in a museum."

Part of a historic shipwreck has been revealed on a beach in the wake of Storm Chandra.

The exposed timbers were discovered at the National Trust-owned Studland Bay, in Dorset, on 28 January.

Maritime archaeologists from Bournemouth University believe it forms a missing piece of the Swash Channel wreck that was first discovered in the 1990s in a key shipping approach to Poole Harbour.

It is thought that the wreck is most likely the Fame from Hoorn, an armed Dutch merchant ship that ran aground and sank in 1631.

The skeleton of a young 6ft 5in-tall (1.9m) Viking-era man who had undergone trepanation has been found in a mass grave.

A hole had been bored in his skull while he was alive. It had signs of healing before his remains were flung into a burial pit with nine other men, some dismembered.

Bone expert Dr Trish Biers suspects he had suffered from a pituitary gland tumour "causing headaches that the trepanning may have been an attempt to alleviate".

The grisly discoveries were found during a University of Cambridge training dig just outside the city last year and will feature on BBC Two's Digging for Britain.