How do people keep finding treasure in British fields that is hundreds of years old and why is it scattered there in the first place?

Question

How do people keep finding treasure in British fields that is hundreds of years old and why is it scattered there in the first place?

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Answer 1

So this is gonna blow your mind but England has had four separate human habitations the earliest being about 900k years ago with what they think was homo erected or hidlebergensis. Hippopotamus is the only animal bones they have found without signs of human butchering.

So starting after the last ice age the British isle have been pretty well covered with modern humans ever since and people drop shit all the time or hide stuff and die, or never make it back or a village 6000 years ago used to be where a field is now. The top 2 or 3 archeological schools in the world are in England because there is just literally so much stuff, all the time, everywhere.

Edit : Ive been listening to a lot of history hit podcasts The ancients with Tristan Hughes and Gone Medieval with Cat Jarmin and Matt Lewis