About 200 artefacts have been unearthed after two Bronze Age hoards were found by metal detectorists. A 13-year-old girl on her third detecting trip uncovered 20 pieces from an eventual total of about 65 items, including an assortment of incomplete pieces such as socketed axe heads, winged axe heads, cake ingots and blade fragments dating from about 1300 BCE in a field near Royston, around 65 kilometres north of London. Other detectorists on the same organised trip identified a second potential deposit nearby. Archaeologists were immediately called to excavate the two sites the following day.
     The hoards could be related, and both are being treated as potential treasure. All the finds have been sent to the British Museum for expert examination. The museum manages archaeological finds made by the public through its Portable Antiquities Scheme.
     The caches date to the Middle Bronze Age. In accordance with the 1996 Treasure Act, a museum may decide to the purchase the artefacts after they've been assessed and valued. If offered any money for the hoard, the young metal detectorist plans to split the proceeds with the field's owner.

Edited from Smithsonian Magazine (29 November 2021), BBC News (1 December 2021)