British law defines anything older than 300 years and consisting of at least 10 percent precious metal as “treasure,” and thus the property of the British crown. After Mr. Heads stumbled on a ...

Raby Castle in County Durham has been invited to join the Treasure Houses of England, a small group of the country’s finest houses, palaces and castles. Did you know with a Digital subscription ...

The Paston Treasure is one of the most important depictions of a schatzkammer (cabinet of treasures - Wunderkammer = wonders) in the history of British collecting. It is a record of the ...

Disputed accounts even describe Edith as having a vision of a ghostly procession passing through the mounds near her house ... the treasure—owned by the British Museum—is put on public ...

An architectural masterpiece of the 13th to 16th centuries, Westminster Abbey has become a treasure house of artefacts. This is also the coronation church where some of the most significant people in ...