It's thought that items in this find of around 800 objects, including the remains of wagons and horse harnesses, date back 2,000 years ago to the time of the Roman invasion of Britain. Duncan Wilson, Chief Executive of Historic England, said: "Quite simply, this is one of the most important and exciting Iron Age period discoveries made in the UK."

“The destruction of so many high-status objects, evident in this hoard, is also of a scale rarely seen in Iron Age Britain and demonstrates that the elites of northern Britain were just as powerful as their southern counterparts,” Tom Moore, an Iron Age archeologist at Durham University, said in a statement.

A hoard of Iron Age artifacts discovered by a metal detectorist could alter our understanding of life in Britain 2,000 years ago, researchers have said.