{"id":43943,"date":"2025-08-16T11:26:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T11:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/archaeology-student-from-florida-finds-rare-9th-century-gold-during-her-first-excavation-in-u-k\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T11:26:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T11:26:20","slug":"archaeology-student-from-florida-finds-rare-9th-century-gold-during-her-first-excavation-in-u-k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/archaeology-student-from-florida-finds-rare-9th-century-gold-during-her-first-excavation-in-u-k\/","title":{"rendered":"Archaeology student from Florida finds rare 9th-century gold during her first excavation in U.K."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>An American archaeology student on her first-ever dig found a rare piece of 9th-century gold.<\/p>\n<p>Yara Souza, who is from Orlando, Florida, is an international student at Newcastle University in the U.K. She was part of a July excavation in Redesdale, Northumberland, in northeastern England when she made the discovery about 90 minutes into her excavation, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/press\/articles\/latest\/2025\/08\/northumberlandgold\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">university announced<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I couldn&#8217;t believe I&#8217;d found something so quickly into my first ever excavation,&#8221; Souza said in a press release. &#8220;After I&#8217;d had to miss Birdoswald last year, it was amazing to discover something that hasn&#8217;t been seen for more than a thousand years, I was really geeking out over it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Birdoswald Roman Fort is another excavation that Newcastle University students participated in last year.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-large\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/08\/15\/cb8dfbea-2b62-453a-957a-fc86b1cc48f3\/thumbnail\/620x367\/b050a98149bb4643e0228c6adb79fd1c\/yara-standard.jpg#\" alt=\"yara-standard.jpg \" height=\"367\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/08\/15\/cb8dfbea-2b62-453a-957a-fc86b1cc48f3\/thumbnail\/620x367\/b050a98149bb4643e0228c6adb79fd1c\/yara-standard.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/08\/15\/cb8dfbea-2b62-453a-957a-fc86b1cc48f3\/thumbnail\/1240x734\/e0cb7b6284adb5a24b7bcd26b05cce61\/yara-standard.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Archaeology student Yara Souza holds up a piece of 9th-century gold that she discovered during her first-ever excavation in the U.K.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Portable Antiquities Scheme\/Newcastle University<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to the university, the early medieval object \u2013 about 1.5 inches long with a decorative finial at one end \u2013 was buried close to the route of Dere Street, a major Roman road which ran between York, England and Edinburgh, Scotland. Dere Street was still used after the fall of the Roman Empire and went on to become part of the modern-day A68 highway.<\/p>\n<p>The archaeology students, alongside archaeologists from North East Museums, were investigating the location as it was the site of a chance discovery of a similar object in 2021.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/08\/15\/f2310f04-9c2c-448b-8151-433da5e022b0\/thumbnail\/620x826\/efdcaa58b8d211f55c43cd28c3d2293c\/picture1.jpg#\" alt=\"picture1.jpg \" height=\"826\" width=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/08\/15\/f2310f04-9c2c-448b-8151-433da5e022b0\/thumbnail\/620x826\/efdcaa58b8d211f55c43cd28c3d2293c\/picture1.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/08\/15\/f2310f04-9c2c-448b-8151-433da5e022b0\/thumbnail\/1240x1652\/8b76acc21e76a8aa7ba8d3c497f5ded1\/picture1.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">A piece of 9th-century gold was discovered during a recent excavation in Redesdale, Northumberland, in northeastern England.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Portable Antiquities Scheme\/Newcastle University<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;This is an exciting find of exceptional quality,&#8221; said Newcastle University archaeology professor James Gerrard. &#8220;We know that Dere Street continued to be a major thoroughfare long after the Romans and it&#8217;s clear from this discovery that high status people were using it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the university, gold was considered high status and was only used by the elite. Experts involved in the excavation believe the object found by Souza and the one discovered in 2021 could have had a religious or ceremonial use.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is possible that this pair of objects may have been deliberately buried,&#8221; Gerrad added.<\/p>\n<p>The piece will be further analyzed and could eventually go on display at a local museum.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>    <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/lucia-suarez-sang\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Lucia I Suarez Sang<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author__bio\">\n<div class=\"content-author__full-information\">\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Lucia Suarez Sang is an associate managing editor at CBSNews.com. 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