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Perhaps the single most historic discovery made by a non-expert in recent years was made by an unemployed British man named Terry Herbert.Herbert is an amateur treasure hunter who searched fields and back lots with his metal detector for over 18 years.Herbert started digging and soon discovered that he had struck gold-literally: He had stumbled upon the largest Anglo-Saxon treasure ever found.In September of 2009, while using his metal detector on the land of a friend's farm, the detector started beeping wildly.

Perhaps the single most historic discovery made by a non-expert in recent years was made by an unemployed British man named Terry Herbert. Herbert is an amateur treasure hunter who searched fields and back lots with his metal detector for over 18 years. In all those years, Herbert had never found anything of significant value. But it is a good thing he was so persistent. In September of 2009, while using his metal detector on the land of a friend's farm, the detector started beeping wildly. Herbert started digging and soon discovered that he had struck gold-literally: He had stumbled upon the largest Anglo-Saxon treasure ever found. The treasure consisted of 11 pounds of gold and 5 pounds of silver in the form of over 1,500 ornaments, swords, and other weapons. Experts believe this find will give us a much greater understanding of the Anglo-Saxons, the rulers of England from the 5th century until 1106. They also believe that this discovery will be considered one of the most important discoveries in British archaeological history