It was the stuff of movie fantasy - a digger gouging earth on a building site suddenly revealing a cascade of gold.

The Fishpool Hoard was discovered in what is now Ravenshead, Nottinghamshire, 60 years ago by workers on a new housing estate.

Consisting of more than 1,200 coins and nine pieces of jewellery, it proved to be the largest collection of medieval gold coins ever found in the UK.

Ahead of a plaque being installed near the site, the BBC revisits a story which also involved light-fingered locals, allegations of corrupt police and a mystery man moving through the world of London coin dealers.

An amateur fossil hunter who found a rare fragment from the world's oldest marine crocodile said she thought it was a piece of wood with nails driven through it.

The upper jawbone fossil, found during a guided walk along the Lyme Regis shore in Dorset, is thought to be one of only 11 found from the animal.

Dr Paul Davis, palaeontologist and geology curator at Lyme Regis Museum, said that it would help researchers understand how the Jurassic croc hunted in the world's early oceans.

It went on display to the public last week, as part of the museum's exhibit on the "Charmouth Crocodile" - first discovered in 2017 in nearby Charmouth.

People will get an idea of what a Bronze Age settlement could have looked like through an immersive digital art installation.

It is thought the 3,000-year-old settlement at Must Farm quarry in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, burnt down less than a year after it was built.

An exhibit called Fire to Fen is at March Library until 15 May. It follows the lifespan of the site, as depicted by archaeologists.

Dr Chris Wakefield, project producer and engagement officer at the Cambridge Archaeological Unit (CAU), said it had brought the settlement "to life in a way that is both immediate and engaging".

An "exceptionally rare" coin hoard has given new clues about life in 9th Century Worcestershire, historians have said.

At first, metal detectorists from Go Detecting (Midlands) uncovered a few silver coins in a field near Bickmarsh, close to the Warwickshire border, in 2022.

But it soon became clear there were more, and 63 coins were found in total, said Worcestershire County Council. Its archaeology team carried out surveys and excavations to investigate the site further.

Experts believe the coins, buried between AD 871 and 874, were perhaps hidden for safekeeping at "a time of trouble when Viking armies were moving across England".

A cave hidden beneath an 11th Century castle in Pembrokeshire is a "truly remarkable site" which could rewrite Britain's prehistory, researchers say.

Small digs of the cave under Pembroke Castle, known as Wogan Cavern, have so far uncovered "extremely rare" evidence of early humans and animals - including the bones of a hippopotamus which roamed Wales 120,000 years ago.

The University of Aberdeen will now lead a larger five-year exploration of the site, which archaeologists hope could reveal "a great deal about our early prehistoric forebears".