There's medieval gold in them there hills: The stunning array of artefacts found by Britain's amateur archaeologists

Britain is bursting at the seams with ancient buried artefacts - with 250 pieces being found every single day.

A medieval gold ring, a Bronze Age gold bracelet and a set of gold dentures were just three of the 90,146 amateur archaeological discoveries made in 2010.

The British Museum said the 'massive jump' of reported findings by a third was 'testament to the tremendous success' of the government's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS).

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