Metal detectorists in England have unearthed a spectacular collection of Anglo-Saxon gold-and-garnet pendants that may have ended up in the ground after being ritually "killed" 1,400 years ago.
Two detectorists found the collection of four gold pendants and one piece of a gold brooch on the slope of a hill in the village of Donington on Bain, about 125 miles (200 kilometers) north of London, in the spring of 2023. The detectorists reported their find under the U.K.'s Portable Antiquities Scheme, and archaeologist Lisa Brundle, the finds liaison officer for Lincolnshire county, studied the extraordinary jewels.
