Metal detectorists have made a "remarkable" discovery unearthing two Bronze Age axe heads on land owned by a farmer in Wiltshire. Kay Stevenson, from Winterbourne in South Gloucestershire ...

Colchester and Ipswich Museum Service Despite thousands of years in the ground, many of the axe heads still had a shiny patina It dates to the late Bronze Age, between 1000BC and 800BC ...

A retired Hartlepool nurse found an axe head dating back 3,500 years to the Bronze Age while out in Northumberland earlier this month. Philip Pugh, 60, made the discovery using a metal detector in ...

BRONZE AGE BOY:That’s magic dad. BRONZE AGE FATHER:A bronze axe head. That’s real magic. NARRATOR:Its 4,000 years ago and new people have arrived in Britain bringing lots of new ideas with them.

A BBC series which follows a year of archaeological discoveries across the country will feature a Cumbrian town. Millom will star in Digging for Britain after the team visited the area last summer.

BBC's Digging for Britain features Millom's archaeological dig and 'very rare' finds in episode 4 of series 12.