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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Mark Brown North of England correspondent

‘Magical’ objects from iron age hoard found in UK go on display

Glynn Davis looks down at a tangle of corroded objects in a display case, with an image behind him depicting a large group of iron age people around a fire
Yorkshire Museum’s senior curator, Glynn Davis, with ‘the block’, a 150kg tangle of objects that cannot be dismantled without causing permanent damage. Photograph: Gary Calton/The Guardian

Iron age objects that tell a dramatic story of female power and that dispel the myth that northern Britain was a left-behind backwater have gone on display for the first time.

The objects exhibited in York are from the Melsonby hoard, the largest trove of iron age metalwork ever found in the UK, which experts say could alter our understanding of life in Britain 2,000 years ago.

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