Detector found bronze hidden 3,000 years ago
Herald Express [UK], February 12, 2009

PRECIOUS copper fragments stashed away by pre-historic Denbury residents more than 3,000 years ago have been unearthed.

Seven copper ingots smelted sometime between 1100BC and 800BC and thought to have been stashed away by blacksmiths for later repairs to tools and axes were discovered in fields ploughed by farmer Kiernan Wellwood. Phil Higginson, 52, from Newton Abbot and fellow members of Torbay Metal Detecting Club Stuart Hunt, from Newton Abbot and David Martin, from Exeter, unearthed the prehistoric hoard in April.

Mr Higginson said:
"I found a couple of pieces of copper first and one of the other chaps found a similar piece and someone else found another. We did not realise what it was at first, but when we all put our heads together we knew it was copper and probably buried when the pyramids were being built. It was amazing to think the last person to have touched it lived more than 3,000 years ago."

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