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The most brilliant treasure finds of the last decade

A decade of thrilling treasure finds
2010: The Crosby Garrett helmet
2010: Frome hoard
2011: The million dollar blanket
2012: Jersey Celtic coin hoard
2012: Roman planter found in a decrepit garden
2013: Saddle Ridge Hoard
2013: The British Treasury Ship S.S. Gairsoppa
2014: Galloway hoard of Viking treasure
2014: Anglo-Saxon coin hoard
2015: Gold coins from a Spanish Fleet
2015: The yet-to-be-trawled 'Holy Grail' of shipwrecks
2016: Million dollar baseball cards
2016: Caesarea Treasure
2016: Gold under a tree
2016: Gold hidden in Normandy
2016: Leekfrith Iron Age Torcs
2016: Lost Aboriginal painting hanging in a government office
2017: Minjiang shipwreck treasures
2017: The Constable hanging under the stairs
2018: The 'Victorian Titanic'
2018: The Old Master painting in the spare room
2018: The fifth-largest diamond in the world
2018: The Canaletto gift
2018: Gold bars in an airport bin
2018: King Bluetooth's incredible treasure
2018: The Sa El-Hagar treasure trove
2018: Gold coins of 'inestimable' value under Italian cinema
2018: Gold-laden rocks
2018: The hamburger-sized emerald
2018: Highly valuable stone axe
2018: The lost gold of the Danube
2018: The world's oldest animal painting
2018: Treasure from The Crusades
2019: The medieval coin stashed in a secret drawer
2019: The stolen Swedish Crown Jewels
2019: The burial hoard of a 1st-century princess
2019: The 10-foot statue of Emperor Trajan
2019: Winston Churchill's cigar and top hat
2019: The Hambleden Hoard of medieval coins
2019: The fifth-century Byzantine gold coin
2019: The second-largest diamond ever mined
2019: Long-lost chess piece worth hundreds of thousands
2019: Barbican treasure under a pile of leaves
2019: The 9,000-year-old Israeli city
2019: The sunken temples of Heracleion
2019: Rare Chinese vase found in a house clearance
2019: The Norman silver coin hoard
2019: The 2,600-year-old site confirming the Babylonian conquest
2019: Sorceress' treasure in Pompeii
2019: The largest gold nugget found in the UK
2019: The 16th-century gold bishop's ring
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A decade of thrilling treasure finds

From stolen crown jewels and tennis ball-sized diamonds to gold stashed in a whiskey bottle, there have been some very exciting, and sometimes unusual, treasures discovered over the last decade. We look back on 51 of the best treasure finds made between 2010 and 2019, spanning around 56,000 years' worth of history.

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Hannah Ward-Glenton

04 December 2019

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