I don't know how I never heard of this. To summarize, sometime in the 2020's a farmer stumbled across a hoard of 700+ buried gold coins in his field.
Gold Dollars, $5 and $10 Pieces, with a value over a Million Dollars.
Links: Wikipedia on the Great Kentucky Hoard, The National Post, LiveScience.Com - which is of interest as it mentions a few other unrecovered hoards of even greater Value:
Many wealthy Kentuckians are rumored to have buried huge sums of money to prevent it from being stolen by the Confederacy. James Langstaff left a letter saying he had buried $20,000 in coins on his property in Paducah, William Pettit buried $80,000 worth of gold coins near Lexington, and Confederate soldiers quarantined for measles reportedly stole payroll and hid it in a cave in Cumberland Gap. None of these caches has ever been recovered.
Of interest as well, other hoards in North America - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hoards_in_North_America, and be sure to follow links to the Baltimore Gold Hoard and the Castine Hoard.
And, finally, a post on other rumored undiscovered hoards of Kentucky: https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/, which has me looking up all sorts of things on Google Maps...
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Once you've done a couple of searches for these they start cluttering up your feed.
Every day, somewhere, someone, is digging up something of inestimable value.
In Yorkshire, 2019, a couple renovating their kitchen discovered beneath the floorboards the Ellerby Area Hoard, 266 silver & gold coins valued at close to $1, 000, 000.
Which, I'm guessing, paid for their renovations...
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellerby_Area_Hoard
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It's by-and-largely Australia that fills up my news feed with stories of preposterously large nuggets, and so it's good to hear that there's still a few good sized ones being found on this continent:
Link: The Boot of Cortez, the largest nugget (still in existence) - 389.4 Troy Oz, found in the North Western Hemisphere, just a few scant miles south of the US US/Mexican border.
There are, upon searching, a surprising number of others that have been found, ranging from California to Nevada and all the way up...
The problem with Canada, of course, is glaciation, which leaves many of the best finds buried under hundreds of meters of overburden.
But the deserts of California, Nevada, Arizona and Mexico are a good training ground before heading to Australia.
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In the vein of artefacts, a rather older and much more impressive handaxe from Britain, estimated to be between 500, 000 to 300, 000 years old.
Note that it almost seems that the shell was an intentional detail...
Read more here: https://stonetoolsmuseum.com/artefact/europe/handaxe-3/1878/
The whole museum is a trove of fascinating tools & artefacts, and it's a bonus that you can rotate the models in 3D.
I need my own neolithic handaxe with a shell inset...
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